Huge Turn-Out To Protest NYU's community crushing development!!!!!!!

		8 November 2010 IN THIS ISSUE NYU 400 ft tall Tower Landmarks Hearing Tonight; Huge Turnout at Rally Yesterday Critical Items Before the Landmarks Preservation Commission  NYU 400 ft tall Tower Landmarks Hearing Tonight; Huge Turnout at Rally Yesterday REMINDER: There will be a public hearing and vote tonight by Community Board 2 on the landmarks application by NYU for their proposed 400 ft. tall hotel/residence tower on Bleecker Street in Silver Towers, the first part of their massive proposed 20 year expansion plan (see details on our Landmarks Application webpage HERE). IT IS CRITICAL THAT WE HAVE A STRONG TURNOUT TO URGE THAT THE PROPOSAL BE REJECTED! The hearing takes places at Grace Church School, 94 Fourth Avenue (nr. 11th Street), starting at 6:30pm. You can sign up to testify, or just come and wear a sticker GVSHP will provide to show your opposition. See the flyer for tonight’s hearingHERE. GVSHP worked very hard to secure landmark statusfor the I.M. Pei-designed Silver Towers complex, its Picasso sculpture, and the surrounding open space, and strongly opposes this proposal. Tonight’s hearing follows a huge turnout at the rally yesterday led by GVSHP and the Community Action Alliance on NYU 2031by hundreds of Village residents, NYU faculty and students, and other Ne