How much money does a man make for making a building into a mega dorm? I met with NYU reps and asked them for community outreach resource facilities in every mega dorm where they used the term community facility to supersize and exclude the community. (See one of my 1rst posts on the historical NYPD building w/community facility, Dec. 19, 2007). I asked NYU reps to hire local artists like Chico and Jim Power Mosaic Man. NYU and David Kramer's people hired an artist who profusely thanks them in with a sign in front of the facade of St. Ann's from 1847. I believe they used her art as a way to stop activists from spraying painting "No more mega dorms!!!".How much did these people make on this deal and how much did each developer make in the river of concrete--a river of denial aka mega dorms that runs through the East Village...how much do developers make on a mega dorm...and evictions continue to rise but at least college kids have housing and a place to party like in the movies and their favorite tv shows. Being next door to this mega build that was at times a 7 day a week mega build makes me furious for many reasons and I think of Firemen Bobby Beddia and Joseph Graffignino who should be alive today and would be if the Deustsche Bank building had been treated with even half the priority of importance that this hideous mega dorm build was by the powers that be.
A notice was placed under my door last night and of course I was very unhappy to read DEP notified the building at 5 PM yesterday that water would be turned off from 12:30 AM -4:30AM for...? You guessed it -- the no. 1 real estate magnate (and not for profit) NYU, the East Village's very own Evil Empire. We are still waiting for the USPS to notify the State of New York re: the air sale over a historic site as they were legally required to (check http://www.gvshp.org/ for documentation by Andrew Berman USPS air sale).
...DEP and every city agency "it seems" have bent over backward to make sure the most hideous sky piercing NYU mega dorm be built at Guinness world record speed because college kids student housing is the top priority in contrast to the rise in evictions of long term tenants and small businesses. Our billionaire mayor and city planner mega millionaire socialite city planner have done everything but provide trains, buses and NYU trolleys to move us because they want the East Village, Bowery and Lower East Side to be NYU-Las Vegas Ville. The sky piercing mega dorm, luxury condos and hotels reflect a history destroyed and city wide communities no longer welcome...You will have to come visit are recreation of our beloved neighborhoods in a museum or Las Vegas. Could you imagine if NYU had to pay real estate taxes? We could feed and house every homeless person in America. Unlike Columbia University, NYU does not even need to abuse eminent domain to achieve their goal.
http://www.nysun.com/article/44078 This is a letter published last year in The New York Sun!
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