By Matt Chaban 7/17/12 9:00am

It Takes a Village

A towering challenge. (Docomomo)

Too Little in the Middle: NYU Faculty Propose Last Minute Alternative to Greenwich Village Expansion

Later today, within the next hour or two, the City Council’s zoning subcommittee is expected to unveil a compromise that it has reached with New York University on its ambitious and controversial plan to build 2.2 million square feet of facilities on two blocks the school owns south of Washington Square Park. Whatever form that takes, be it shorter buildings, fewer buildings, maybe even though almost certainly not no buildings, it will be the final deal for NYU’s 2031 expansion plan.

The faculty of NYU know this full well, and a good many of them dread it. Already 36 departments or divisions at the university have come out against the plan, and even as they realized there was little likelihood of stopping the project in the short-term, a faculty coalition came up with its own plan anyway, releasing it on the same day as the university collects its prize.

“No one knows NYU’s space needs better than we do,” said Mark Crispin Miller, a media and culture professor who is one of the leading faculty opponents of the expansion plan. Read More

By Anna Jane Grossman 6/23/03 12:00am

W.

The show opens with an empty stage and the unmistakable voice of George W. Bush over the loudspeakers: “A aspect of poverty is food.” Then a tall man with drooping shoulders and close-cropped dark hair lopes onto the stage. He’s wearing a nicely tailored brown suit and natty redwood-colored leather shoes. “A aspect of poverty Read More

By Rory Evans 1/13/03 12:00am

Giant J. Lo Frenzy!

Tamara had things to do-a list of phone calls to return, an overdue project from work, an incomplete application to Columbia Business School-but all of that was pushed aside when Jennifer Lopez appeared on ABC’s Primetime Live with Diane Sawyer.

“I turned my ringer off, set aside my paperwork and sat glued to my Read More