NY Law students living in the NY Law Mega dorm are living ignorant and blissfully so, not realizing they busted thru zoning using a term "community facility" yet NYU started the trend--the greedy destructive trend that would lead to the East Village being mega dormed to death, No. 1 guilty culprit NYU, than comes Cooper Union, The New School, SVA all who have mega dorms. NYU also owns many buildings that are supersized student housing and a few buildings they have yet to tear down and supersize. For years I have heard they want to tear down the Filmore East like the did the Palladium and as I lived it first hand and I will never get it over it--NYU's tear down of the historic St. Ann's next door to my now ex-home of 20 years. Please walk past 120 East 12th St and see the facade from 1847. I will always remember the parishioners crying and praying on the street after being turned out.I continue to demand no more mega dorms. I continue to demand community outreach resource centers in every mega dorm in the East Village and through out NYC as a model for the rest of the country in cities, so students walk in and out of their homes and know people and small businesses are struggling and get involved in helping the community. I want these community outreach resource centers in every dorm.
We saw so many "attempted land grabs" and mass evictions from Columbia University's abuse of eminent domain mass evicting an entire neighborhood called Manhattanville. Some are still fighting for their property. I know. I went up to a rally and the series is on my YouTube Channel Suzannahartist.
Above is a heinous and slick land grab by a greedy landlord and we will all be watching to see if he changes his mind and doesn't make it in to his mansion and either way this guy has pulled a "Bernie Madoff" in a metaphorically way like NYU and even NY Law (NY Law doesn't have a campus in the East Village but saw NYU got away with murder so why not NY law school)...NYU "made off" with our neighborhood and did not even need to abuse eminent domain to get the job done. Note: The landlord I was told sold the "mansion on 3rd St. to himself for a dollar and he is a father with children. At some point he is going to have to explain to his kids he mass evicted people that lived there for years and how scary would that be if the kids think that is a good thing like plenty of NYU and Cooper Union college kids who are Gordon Gekkos....Who cares, just give me my student housing or gee, I am a pro-establishment real estate magnate Cooper Union art student so destroy and endanger the East Village because gee I believe it is justiifed to pay for my free education! It is like the 2nd to last installment of this season's True Blood. Duh, that is what the people who lived here the majority of their lives and or had businesses felt the same way. Well, the neighborhood has been destroyed under Bloomberg and almost every cool Mom and Pop store is gone along with so many community members.
These greedy "Bernie Madoff types" that have made off with our neighborhood like predators have another quality they all share. They don't care that the community things they are lower life forms than a slug.
Condo developers and other colleges like SVA and even Cooper Union play it down saying they are not as bad as NYU but they are all predators and they preyed on the East Village as mass evictions and all kinds of attempted land grabs and push outs hit the East Village, Lower East Side and the entire city -- leaving people filling up moving vans and store fronts with "for rent" signs.
Parents have come to me and told me apartments with college kids jammed and crammed in to them from Stuy Town to the East Village have been hell for them. They have compassion for young people wanting to party but they have children and they need their rest.
I don't even have children and I feel I need rest.
It has been hell thanks to the Bloomberg Administration and I went to bed in the East Village and woke up in a bad xerox of mid-town turning in to a bad xerox of mid-town.
