In the News
“NYU Takes Fight Over Demolishing “Parks” to Court,” Sept. 25, 2014
“Anti-Development is in the Air at FASP Penthouse Fundraiser,” The Villager, Oct. 10, 2013
“NYU’s ‘Toxic’ Expansion Prioritizes Marketing Over Debt-Saddled Students, Professors Say,” Huffington Post,
June 17, 2013
“Faculty Demand that Sexton Resign After Adverse Vote,” The Villager, March 21, 2013
“‘No Confidence’ Vote for Head of N.Y.U.,” NYT, March 13, 2013
“Senator Chuck Grassley Has Tough Questions for NYU,” The Village Voice, March 19, 2013
“N.Y.U.’s Global Leader is Tested by Faculty at Home,” NYT, March 9, 2013
“Can a Community Garden Stop the NYU Expansion,” NY Press, March 7, 2013
“N.Y.U. Project Foes Hail Judge’s Ruling About Strips,” The Villager, Feb. 28, 2013
“Judge Allows New Documentation In NYU Expansion Hearing,” City and State, Feb. 27, 2013
“NYU Gotta Be Kidding! Matthew Broderick Rips $6B Expansion,” NYP, Feb. 27, 2013
“Matthew Broderick Joins NYU Expansion Opponents in Court,” DNAinfo, Feb. 26, 2013
“NYU/City in Court Over Attempted Illegal Parkland Swap,” A Walk in the Park blog,Feb. 26, 2013
“Former NYC Parks Commissioner Says City Illegally Gave Parkland to NYU,” NYULocal, Feb. 25, 213
“Former Parks Commissioner Signs On To Lawsuit,” NY1, Feb. 22, 2013
“Planet NYU,” The Village Voice, Feb. 20, 2013
“11 Groups File Suite Against N.Y.U. Plan for Its Superblocks,” The Villager, Sept. 27, 2012
“City is Sued Over Approval of NYU Expansion Plan,” NYT, Sept. 25, 2012
“NYU, City, State, Sued Over NYU’s Giant Expansion Plan,” The Gothamist, Sept. 25, 2012
“Purple Pulverizers: NYU Faculty, Preservationists Sue University Over Greenwich Village Expansion,”
NY Observer, Sept. 25, 2012
“W.S.V. Residents Sue N.Y.U. to Save Garden, Playground,” The Villager, August 23, 2012
The Village Voice, July 26, 2012
“N.Y.U. Repeatedly Ignored Community’s Road Map,” The Villager, July 26, 2012
NY Observer, July 25, 2012
“Lawsuit Against N.Y.U. 20131 Likely on the Horizon,” The Local East Village Blog, NYT, July 24, 2012
“C.B. 2 to Mendez and Chin: City Council Too Soft on NYU 2031,” The Local East Village Blog, NYT, July 20, 2012
“N.Y.U. Plan Wins Key Vote By Council Committee,” The Villager, July 19, 2012
“Green Thumbs Hope N.Y.U. Plan is Seriously Pruned,” The Villager, July 12, 2012
“Letters, Week of July 12, 2012,” The Villager, July 12, 2012
“N.Y.U., Greenwich Village Residents Face Off at 2031 Expansion Hearing,” Village Voice, June 29, 2012
“N.Y.U. Plan to Expand Has Critic in Neighborhood Star,” NY Times, June 28, 2012
“N.Y.U. is Risking Its Intellectual and Fiscal Health,” The Villager, June 21, 2012
“Amanda Burden: NYU Expansion Strikes the Perfect Balance [Updated], NY Observer, May 31, 2012
“N.Y.U. Flip-Flops on What It Requires in Its ‘Core’,” The Villager, May 24, 2012
“In the Shadow of the Four Towers: A Day at the Parks NYU Wants to Bury,” NY Observer, April 30, 2012
“City Planning Hears From Both Sides in NYU Expansion,” MASNYC, April 27, 2012
“City Planning Members Grill N.Y.U on Superblocks Plan,” The Villager, April 26, 2012
“N.Y.U. 2031’s Booers and Boosters Face Off Before Planning Commission,” April 26, 2012
“Expand Minds, Not the N.Y.U. Campus,” NY Times, April 25, 2012
“A Poll Finds Most N.Y.U. Faculty Are Against the Expansion Plan . . . ,“ Capital New York, April 19, 2012
“N.Y.U. Freshman Need a Campus — On Governors Island,” The Villager, April 19, 2012
“N.Y.U. Scales Back Its Superblock Plan 17%,” The Villager, April 12, 2012
“Nadler Wants More Compromise on NYU Plan,” Politicker, NY Observer, April 11, 2012
NY Observer, April 10, 2012
“N.Y.U. Agrees to Scale Back Its Expansion in the Village,” NYT, April 10, 2012
“Mayor Stands By NYU’s Greenwich Village Expansion Plans,” NY1, April 9, 2012
“Key Official Would Trim N.Y.U. Plan to Expand,” NYT, March 29, 2012
“Anti-N.Y.U. Plan Coalition Demands Hearing by Stringer,” The Villager, March 29, 2012
“Planners Engage in Polite Combat Over NYU Expansion,” MetroFocus, March 29, 2012
“Update: Resistance to NYU 2031 Expansion Heightens,” Arch Daily, March 29, 2012
“A Debate About N.Y.U.’s Expansion Plans Gets Academic in More Ways Than One,”
CapitalNewYork, March 29, 2012
“NYU’s Controversial Expansion,” Gotham Gazette, March 29, 2012
“Experts Debate NYU’s Controversial Expansion,” Architectural Record, March, 28, 2012
“Panelists Call for Alternative Plans for NYU 2031,” GlobeSt., March 28, 2012
“Washington Square Park Champion Deborah Glick Squares Off Against NYU’s Expansion Plans,
NY Observer, March 26, 2012
“Michael Kimmelman Proposes an Alternative to NYU2031,” NYCurbed, March 24, 2012
“New Business Groups Calls for Scaling Down N.Y.U. Plan,” The Villager, March 22, 2012
“Faculty Members Protest NYU Expansion Plan,” MyFoxNY, March 22, 2012
“It Riles a Village,” NYT, March 22, 2012
“Room for Growth,” NYT, March 22, 2012
“Chamber Chief: N.Y.U. Plan Will Help Village Keep Its Character,” The Villager, March 15, 2012
“Stringer Takes ‘Super’ Tour But Will He Hold A Hearing?,” The Villager, March 15, 2012
“N.Y.U.’s Plan for Expansion Draws Anger in the Community,” NYT, March 9, 2012
“N.Y.U. Risks Rotting the Core,” Letters to the Editor, The Villager, Feb. 23, 2012
“N.Y.U. Ideas for Temporary Gym, Park Strips Questioned by C.B.2,” The Villager, Feb. 16, 2012
“Angry Faculty to Cape Dogs Unite at Anti-N.Y.U. Plan Rally,” The Villager, Feb. 16, 2012
“NYU Expansion Plan Rally,” MyFoxNY, Feb. 11, 2012
“N.Y.U. Rep Says They’ll Give Land, Not Cash, For School,” The Villager, Feb.10, 2012
“N.Y.U. Has a Right to Build, But Must Scale Back Plan,” The Villager, Feb. 9, 2012
“This is Our Jane Jacobs Moment: Stop the N.Y.U. Plan!” The Villager, Feb. 9, 2012
“How NYU Plans to Expand in the Village: The Struggle for the Superblocks,” NYULocal, Jan. 25, 2012
“N.Y.U. Takes Heat on School and Open Space at Hearings,” The Villager, Jan. 19, 2012
“Huge Turnout Forces Change of Locale for N.Y.U. Meeting,” The Villager, Jan. 12, 2012
“Tensions High at NYU Expansion Meeting,” Fox News, Jan. 10, 2012
“NYU Expansion Plan Draws Opponents to Town Hall,” 4 NBCNewYork, Jan. 5, 2012
“Villagers Pack Town Hall, Hoping to Stop N.Y.U. Plan,” The Villager, Jan. 5, 2012
“Greenwich Village Residents Plot Next Move In Battle Against NYU Expansion,”
NY 1, Jan. 4, 2012
2011
“Board 2 Begins Its Two-Month Review of N.Y.U. Mega-Plan,” The Villager, Dec. 31, 2011
“C.B. 2 Angered After N.Y.U. Goes to Media First,” The Villager, Sept. 29 – October 5, 2011
“N.Y.U. Wants Parks to Own Two of the Superblock Strips,” The Villager, Sept. 15 – 21, 2011
“City Planning Gets an Earful on N.Y.U. Superblocks Plan,” The Villager, May 26 – June 1, 2011
“Worries N.Y.U. Project Would Endanger Blocks’ ‘Ecosystem’,” The Villager, May 12 – 18, 2011
“ULURP is Ticking on N.Y.U. Superblocks Plan,” The Villager, April 28 – May 4, 2011
“Forging a Strong Coalition to Block N.Y.U. Sprawl,” The Villager, April 21 – 27, 2011
“Superblock Decision Registers; Dorm Funds Could be Blocked,” The Villager, April 21 – 27, 2011
“Talking Point – And What Happens 20 Years After N.Y.U. 2031?,” The Villager, April 7 – 13, 2011
“N.Y.U. Gets OK for Silver Towers Modification Plan,” The Villager, April 7 – 13, 2011
“Revised N.Y.U. Plan is ‘too ambitious,’ ‘ugly,’ Critics Say,” The Villager, March 24 – 30, 2011
“N.Y.U. Shifts Public School, Hotel in Latest Design,” The Villager, March 17 – 23, 2011
“Just 7 Strips of Green, or A Park Worth Fighting For,” NYT, Jan. 7, 2011
2010
“Community Board, Local Officials Protest NYU Expansion Plans: . . . ,” Daily News, Dec. 7, 2010
“NYU Faces Protests From Greenwich Village Residents . . .,” Daily News, Dec. 6, 2010
“Village Residents Tell NYU: Keep Off Our Grass,” NY Post, Dec. 6, 2010
“Village Residents Look to Halt NYU Expansion Plan,” NY1, Dec. 5, 2010
“Editorial – N.Y.U. ‘Super’ Errors,” The Villager, Dec. 2-8, 2010
“After Pei Protests N.Y.U. Plan, Supermarket Site is New Focus,” The Villager, Nov. 25 – Dec. 1, 2010
“The School That Ate New York,” NY Magazine, Nov. 14, 2010
“‘No 400-Foot Tower!’ Hundreds Say as N.Y.U. Seeks Approval,” The Villager Nov. 11 – 17, 2010
“Greenwich Village Residents in Tug-of-War with NYU . . . ,” Daily News, Nov. 1, 2010
NYU Withdraws Plan for Tower
“NYU Backs Off Plan to Add Tower to Landmark,” NY Post, Nov. 18, 2010
“I.M. Pei Scuttles Plans for NYU Tower,” NY Magazine, Nov. 18, 2010
“N.Y.U. scraps plans for fourth tower in landmark site after I.M. Pei Objects,” The Villager, Nov. 18 – 24, 2010
NYU Proposals & Responses
“Greenwich Village Residents to Fight Against . . . Plan Over Mercer Playground,” Daily News, July 22, 2010
“Neighbors Take Chops at N.Y.U. Fourth-Tower Plan,” The Villager, June 23- 29, 2010
“N.Y.U. Releases Images of Bleecker St. Tower Plan,” The Villager, June 16 – 22, 2010
“N.Y.U. Unveils Rezoning for its Two Superblocks,” The Villager, June 2 – 8, 2010
“Too Big to Fail? N.Y.U. Keeps Growing and Growing . . . ,” The Villager, April 28 – May 4, 2010
“Critics Turn Out at Open House on N.Y.U. Expansion, “ NYT, April 14, 2010
“N.Y.U. Hopes to Start Building on Superblocks Within 2 Years,” The Villager, April 7 – 13, 2010
“N.Y.U. Plans to Expand Campuses by 40 Percent,” NYT, March 20, 2010
“Two Hundred Turn Out to Try to Head Off N.Y.U. Growth,” The Villager, July 1 – 7, 2009
“N.Y.U. Zeros in On Tower, Plinth, ‘Zipper’,” The Villager, April 23 – 29, 2008
“Nip N.Y.U. Growth,” Letters to the Editor, The Villager, Feb. 20 – 26, 2008
“N.Y.U. Goes Gonzo on Its Superblock in New Ideas,” The Villager, Feb. 6 – 12, 2008
2008
“N.Y.U. Offers an Accord On Growth,” NYT, Jan. 30, 2008
“N.Y.U Agrees to new Planning Principles from B.P. Taskforce,” The Villager, Jan. 30 – Feb. 5, 2008
“NYU Throws Community a Landmark Bone; Supports Designating Pei’s Towers,” NY Observer, Feb. 11, 2008
“How Much of N.Y.U. Superblock to Landmark is Issue,” The Villager, July 2 – 8, 2008
“N.Y.U. is Really Growing on Us, Not in a Good Way,” The Villager, September 24 – 30, 2010
2007
“N.Y.U. Commits to Creating a Master Plan for Its Growth,” The Villager, March 7 – 10, 2007
“N.Y.U. President Wants Less Conflict, More Conversation ,” The Villager, May 2 – 8, 2007
“N.Y.U. Growth is on the Charts: More Students, More Buildings,” June 20 – 26, 2007
“With Door Open to Neighbors, N.Y.U. Shapes Plans for Growth,” NYT, July 2, 2007
“N.Y.U. Eyes Superblock for Super-sizing Plan,” The Villager, Dec. 12 – 18, 2007
2004
“Strip Poker on Superblocks; Does N.Y.U. Hold the Cards,” The Villager, June 23 – 29, 2004
“Strip Show and Tell — N.Y.U. Exposed,” The Villager, June 23 -29, 2004
“Sparks Fly Over Strips at Parks Committee Meeting,” The Villager, Oct. 13 – 19, 2004
“It’s Time for N.Y.U. to Stop Blocking Superblocks Transfer,” The Villager, Oct. 13 – 19, 2004
“The Townsfolk Rebel Against Omnipotent NYU, Again,” The Villager, Oct. 20 – 26, 2004