Campus of New York University
The urban campus of New York University (NYU) is located in Manhattan, and is around Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village, and also is in MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn.
When designing these buildings Johnson and Foster also set up a master plan for a complete redesign of the NYU Washington Square campus.
Other historic buildings include the Silver Center (formerly known as "Main building"); the Brown Building of Science; Judson Hall, which houses the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center;[2] Vanderbilt Hall, the historic townhouse row on Washington Square North; The Grey Art Gallery at 100 Washington Square East, housing the New York University art collection and featuring museum quality exhibitions;[3][4] the Kaufman Management Center; and the Torch Club – the NYU dining and club facility for alumni, faculty, and administrators.
Just a block south of Washington Square is NYU's Washington Square Village, housing graduate students and junior and senior faculty residences in the Silver Towers, designed by I. M. Pei, where an enlargement of Picasso's sculpture Bust of Sylvette (1934) is displayed.
More than a hundred garment workers, most young women and girls, died or jumped to their deaths after a fire broke out whilst all exit doors were locked.
The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
NYU operates several theaters and performance facilities that are often used by the university's music conservatory and Tisch School of the Arts but also external productions.
Recently, the Skirball Center hosted important speeches on foreign policy by John Kerry[6] and Al Gore[7] as well as the recording of the season finale of The Apprentice 3.
Well-known also is NYU's Provincetown Playhouse on MacDougal Street, where Eugene O'Neill among many others launched his career and the Frederick Loewe Theatre outside Gould Plaza.
Despite the objections of many supporters, this club was evicted by NYU after being unable to meet for several months the increased rent payments.
Designed by Philip Johnson and Richard Foster, the 12-story, 425,000 square feet (39,500 m2) structure sits on the southern edge of Washington Square Park and is the flagship of an eight-library, 4.5 million volume system that provides students and faculty members with access to the world's scholarship and serves as a center for the University's intellectual life.
Residents and university leaders frequently have differing views on how the school, its buildings and its students should interact with the neighborhood.
[1] The tearing down of a block of tenements and brownstones in 1950 for construction of Vanderbilt Hall, the law school, was a signal of things to come.
[11] Following the closure of the Bronx campus (see History section above), the school expanded downtown, growing significantly – both in student body size and academic and dormitory footprint – from the 1980s through the present.
Critics said the building would ruin the Fifth Avenue view through the Washington Square Arch and cast a shadow on the park, issues impacting a broader swath of city residents and tourists.
"In order to maintain the integrity of the affected neighborhoods, the University's goals for growth and development must be better aligned with those of the community at large" stated the Findings and Recommendations report of March 2010.
Rebuilt elements of two historic buildings were incorporated into the new facade, one of which was occupied by poet Edgar Allan Poe.
[26] The plans have caused anger among East Village and other New York City residents, as the new building would be built over the old St. Ann's Church.
A new $1.3 billion building will replace the Coles Sports and Recreation Center at 404 Lafayette Street formerly located on the site.
It is centrally located in the MetroTech Center and is close to transportation routes and easily accessible from all parts of New York City and Long Island.
Today, the 16-acre (65,000 m²), $1 billion complex is home to the institute and several technology-dependent companies, including Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC), New York City Police Department's 911 Center, New York City Fire Department Headquarters and the U.S. technology and operations functions of JPMorgan Chase.
In addition, wireless networks allow users with notebook computers to access the library's electronic services from anywhere on campus.
The Midtown Center at 11 West 42nd Street and the Woolworth Building in the financial district are home to NYU's continuing education programs.
Freshmen are freed from the lottery system and are by tradition placed in the halls closest to the main campus area.
However, beginning in the fall 2006 semester, sophomores received priority housing, giving them first choice of residence halls.
