NYU Crains Andrew Berman

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20100621/REAL_ESTATE/100629985


NYU uses the term "community facility" to bust through zoning and blot out the light and beauty of what was the Village, East and West also causing mass displacement, tearing down our historic buildings like St. Ann's at 120 East 12th Street as well as the Poe House and Province Town Play House to name a few.  I went to bed in the East Village and woke up on a bad xerox of mid-town turning in to a bad xerox of Dubai.  NYU has zero respect for the community because they want the community to move out to make room for their unending need to expand.  Check how many infrastructure related breaks we have had around all the NYU mega dorms in the East Village.  John Sexton ran down to City Hall to testify king Mike must have a third term (and be allowed to deny the people a referendum) and why?  Because of greedy community crushing development where ever NYU, the purple reign of terror occupies real estate.  John Sexton and his zone busting NYU uses their status as not for profit as a tax shelter.  I even wrote State Attorney General asking if NYU, Columbia University and Cooper Union's real estate dealings could be investigated under anti-trust violations since they act as a monopoly.  An investigation in to NYU's expansion and NYU great harm and costs to neighborhoods needs to be investigated.  Did NYU remove the fire hazard extra walls they installed in Stuy Town units that was meant to be affordable housing not NYU housing?  Can John Sexton even vote here in NYC?  Is John Sexton a NY resident?  John Sexton has zero respect for the community and for democracy which Sexton proved when he ran down to City Hall to say the mayor that caters to real estate developers must have a third term and Sexton is paid 1.8 million and that doesn't include his real estate digs courtesy of NYU.   The only thing John Sexton, Amanda the peoples Burden, a socialite mega millionaire city planner and caterer to developers at the communities' expense Mike Bloombucks have not done is provide NYU buses and trolleys to move the people that made the neighborhood so desirable out.

Thank you,
Suzannah B. Troy
I lived next to St. Ann's 120 East 12th St. for 20 years.  The USPS sold the air rights to NYU with out notifying the State of NY as legally required but like blocking the fire hydrants the USPS was and is confident they are above the  law.  The State of NY would have examined is this in the best interest of the community but NYU and the USPS did not care about the community -- only about their greedy agendas.  I will never forget the parisoshners praying and crying on the street.
St. Ann's survived everything all these years from 1847 until NYU's greed and need to build yet another mega dorm.  NYU mega dormed the East Village to death.  Than came New School, NY Law, SVA and Cooper Union mega dorms and than zone busting hotels and bars and banks to cater to NYU-ville. In the mean time more displacement and evictions.  Even landlords want shorter leases and cater to transient student population allowing them to raise the rents even more do to turn over.