José Angel Santana, a theater professor at New York University, tells The New York Post that he got fired for giving James Franco a 'D' in a class called "Directing the Actor II." Mr. Santana is now suing the university, saying that Mr. Franco missed 12 of the 14 classes. Read More
Today The New York Times reports on the sad fate of Violet the red-tailed hawk, who nested on a window ledge at New York University last spring and raised a chick named Pip. The hawk cam is no longer active, but things have gotten bad for Violet, whose leg was previously infected by a wildlife band that appeared to cut off circulation (the band had been on her leg since 2006). Read More
The media maxim that you haven’t made it until you have a Twitter doppelganger now applies to the stars of New York University campus journalism.
NYU Local, the student-produced news blog founded in 2008, acquired lively fake Twitter and Tumblr accounts this summer.
As far as social media satire goes, Fake NYU Local is less interested in mocking NYU Local than it is in stirring up trouble across campus. Read More
This Friday, the earliest known images of Christ, from the year 240, go on view in New York for the first time, and they aren’t where you might expect them to be. They are part of a remarkable exhibition at the relatively obscure N.Y.U. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, a jewel-box of a museum on East 84th Street whose mission, according to exhibitions director Dr. Jennifer Chi, is “to break down preconceived notions of antiquity.” Read More
Richard Brodsky, a long-time Assemblyman who never hesitated to tell reporters how to cover the state capital, gets to shape the discussion at N.Y.U., as a senior fellow.
Brodsky gave up his seat to run, unsuccessfully for attorney general last year. The notably anti-Albany sentiment on the campaign trail made his bid particularly challenging. But the Read More
On a gray Friday in January, a largely empty church on 121st Street and Broadway was immaculate in the way of a rarely used living room. Even on a slushy winter morning, Corpus Christi's floors gleamed.
At noon sharp, in the rectory next door, the Rev. Raymond Rafferty, the church's pastor, leaned forward, checked his watch Read More
Murray Hill, home of frat boys, basement bars and falafel stands, seems ripe for an NYU invasion. The school's medical center just snapped up a condo for $8.95 million at 303 East 33rd Street, close to First Avenue and the NYU Langone Medical Center.
The sale hit public records yesterday evening, and will give the Read More
To all you N.Y.U. students (and/or their parents) with pens poised over tuition checks, we have some news for you about where your hard-earned summer cash goes. To the tune of $10 million, New York University has found a very handsome new home for its back offices in the 1908 Silk building, The Real Deal Read More
Not quite up to speed on what's happening between N.Y.U. and Greenwich Village? Check out this slideshow, which breaks down what the school wants to do--and why the Village is royally peeved.
On Monday evening in the West Village, one of the over 200 local residents at a public hearing on N.Y.U.'s expansion asked anyone who supported the school's 2031 plan to raise his or her hand.
No one moved an inch.
There are undoubtedly some supporters of the ambitious proposal to add 6 million square feet of new space throughout the Read More
It looks as if N.Y.U. can do nothing right, as far as residents of Greenwich Village are concerned.
Earlier this week there were rumors that the school was considering taking space in the World Trade Center in the Financial District. But a few hours later, N.Y.U. revealed that it couldn't afford to build Tower Read More
N.Y.U. today unveiled designs for a planned residential and hotel tower along Houston Street, one of the more controversial aspects of its plans to expand by up to 2 million square feet in Greenwich Village.
The new designs, which arrived via the Journal this morning, call for a 38-story tower to complement the Silver Towers, three 30-story Read More
Another publicity salvo was exchanged on Wednesday evening between N.Y.U. and local preservation groups, as a throng of residents waved signs outside the Kimmel Center on Washington Square South, protesting the university's expansion plans. This preempted the school's open house inside detailing an ambitious plan that calls for up to six million square feet of additional Read More
Maybe because it's been dragged through the verses of so many folk songs, MacDougal Street has an immediate, familiar force to it—a preformed memory, a kind of Greenwich Village reenactment. The scene may be self-romanticizing, the costumes slightly campy, but when you round the corner and it whirs to life, a perpetual carnival just Read More
For the past three years, New York University has been massaging Greenwich Village.
The school, with a beefed up community affairs operation, has thrown bones to preservation groups (consenting to the landmarking of a large NYU block); adjusted plans to demolish a building with a theater when faced with opposition; and held a recurring set of Read More
