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GVSHP’s perspective on potential NYU satellite campuses

Write your elected officials urging them not to support NYU’s massive expansion plan in the Village Call elected officials urging them to oppose the NYU plan Sign and share the on-line petition GVSHP has posted urging elected and appointed officials who will vote on the NYU plan NOT to approve it NYU’s zoning change application to the Department of City Planning (Warning: very large PDF) 12/05/11 NYU’s zoning change submission documents for the Department of City Planning 12/05/11 Letter to city officials about NYU’s “proposed changes” to expansion plan 09/16/11 Letter to city officials about NYU expansion in the Financial District 01/20/11 I.M. Pei’s objections to NYU’s 4th tower plan 11/10/10 GVSHP testimony to Community Board 2 on 4th tower plan 11/08/10 NYU filing to LPC for 4th tower on the Silver Towers site & additional renderings 10/07/10 Community Action Alliance on NYU 2031 letter to elected officials about NYU expansion Updated 09/1/10 CAAN2031 letter to elected officials about status of Mercer Street & LaGuardia Place green strips 08/26/10 GVSHP’s statement on the release of the NYU Community Task Force recommendations about the 2031 Plan 03/25/10 Letter to the Board of Standards & Appeals about NYU’s planned Spiritual Center 01/21/10 NYU agrees to “planning principles” for future growth 01/30/08 Letter to NYU about new development 12/16/05 GVSHP letters to elected officials about satellite campuses		Comparative Views of NYU’s Proposed Construction 12/22/11 NYU response to CB2 inquiries about superblock plans 11/03/11 Fact sheets on proposed superblock buildings and open space 11/03/11 Phasing of proposed superblock buildings 10/24/11 Updated 2031 plans from NYU 09/15/11 NYU Core Expansion Draft Scope of Work Environmental Impact Statement Scoping Notice 04/15/11 Environmental Assessment Statement 04/15/11 NYU 2031 plan overview 09/10/10 NYU 2031 land use proposal 09/10/10 Planning history of the superblock sites 09/10/10 NYU 2031 Plan & Details 04/13/10 Community Taskforce on NYU Development findings and recommendations 03/25/10 Past NYU construction compared to ‘NYU 2031’ projections for additional square footage 02/01/09 After the Kimmel Center: How Can We Plan to Protect Our Neighborhoods, Parks, and View Corridors? 09/06/02 Town hall on the future of the NYU 2031 plan 12/01/10 Rally against the NYU 2031 Plan video 11/07/10 Rally against the NYU 2031 Plan photos 11/07/10 Map of NYU facilities in the Village area 02/10/06		Villager 01/19/12 NY1 01/12/12 Villager 01/12/12 Capital NY 01/10/12 The Epoch Times 01/10/12 FOX 5 News 01/09/12 The Epoch Times 01/06/12 Architect’s Newspaper 01/05/12 Villager 01/05/12 WNBC News 01/05/12 Villager Op-Ed 01/05/12 NY1 01/04/12 Globe St. 01/04/12 Washington Square News 09/19/11 Real Estate Weekly 09/16/11 GlobeSt.com 09/16/11 Washington Square News 09/12/11 NY Daily News 09/01/11 DNAinfo 08/31/11 Villager 05/26/11 Villager 05/26/11 Wall Street Journal 05/25/11 Real Estate Weekly 05/25/11 Globe St. 05/19/11 NearSay 05/18/11 Curbed 05/17/11 The Real Deal 05/17/11 WNBC News 05/17/11 Crain’s NY 05/17/11 Villager 05/12/11 Washington Square News 04/26/11 Villager 04/21/11 DNAinfo 04/19/11 Crain’s NY 04/19/11 Villager 04/07/11 Villager Talking Point 04/07/11 DNAinfo 04/05/11 Villager 03/24/11 Washington Square News 03/21/11 The Real Deal 03/16/11 Crain’s NY 03/16/11 WNYC 03/16/11 Press Coverage Continued >>

The ongoing expansion in the Village, NoHo, and East Village of New York University — the largest private university in the United States — remains a huge concern to GVSHP, and to many of our neighbors. NYU, which currently occupies about 100 buildings between 2nd and 6th Avenues in the Village, has built a dozen new high-rises in the area since the early 1980s, and has built or occupied all or part of more than 25 buildings during that time.

GVSHP believes that under current conditions, NYU will only continue to expand, and gradually take over more and more of these neighborhoods. And while we see our institutions of higher learning as an important element in the character of our neighborhoods, we do not believe that NYU should become their overwhelming or defining trait, as current conditions allow.