By Kim Velsey 7/26/12 10:10am

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St. Mark's Last Stand: the bookstore turns to crowdfunding (full-stop.net)

St. Mark’s Bookshop Jumps On Crowdfunding Bandwagon

After trying just about everything everything else to survive, St. Mark’s Bookshop is finally turning to crowdfunding. It was about time. From Brooklyn’s Broken Angel house to the Lower East Side’s Cake Shop, crowdfunding has become a favorite of beloved but penurious institutions and not-quite-lost causes.

St. Mark’s, hoping to help fund a move to a cheaper location, has launched a Lucky Ant campaign to crowdsource $23,000, according to Crain’s. Like so many other stores and people who have long called Manhattan home, the book store can’t afford to pay its rent and needs to relocate. With its rent reduction of $2,500 a month from landlord Cooper Union set to expire in November, the store is now trying to marshal funds for a move. Read More

By Michael Ewing 4/17/12 10:34am

It Takes a Village

Is that someone wearing a purple shirt in the window? (Courtesy of Wikipedia)

Cooper Union Junior Pranks Gothamist With News of School’s Sale to NYU—Which Is Actually Pretty Believable

Buzz on the street about New York University’s latest purchase turns out to be false!

If big purple already didn’t own most of Manhattan, it wasn’t much a shock to have learned from Gothamist that the school/corporation bought Cooper Union yesterday morning. A press release from a @cooper.edu rolled int Gothamist’s inbox and linked Read More

By Max Abelson 11/11/08 6:08pm

The Power Builder

Location: This is a horribly anxious time to be in New York real estate, especially if you’re one of the city’s biggest builders. What keeps you up at night?

Mr. Sciame: I like to say that I sleep like a baby: I sleep for two hours and I cry for two hours. Only kidding. Read More

By Jason Horowitz 3/27/08 2:59pm

Obama Addresses the Economy and ‘Extraordinary’ Bloomberg

In what was billed by his campaign as a major economic address at the Cooper Union’s Great Hall this morning, Barack Obama called for a more responsibly regulated economy with stricter penalties on abusers of the market and less dependence on lobbyists.

But before he outlined his vision for a “21st century regulatory system,” Obama Read More

By Eliot Brown 12/31/07 8:28pm

Cooper Union Takes a Step Toward Developing 51 Astor Place

Cooper Union seems to be moving closer to selling its engineering building at 51 Astor Place, as it recently bought itself out of a clause with the city requiring that the building be used solely for educational use, property records show.

The New York Post reported in March that the college was shopping the Read More