[NYguy]

Seems all of the major campuses in Manhattan have been pushing for larger expansions, but NYU has been at war the longest with its neighbors. However, they did drop plans for the larger tower - one that was originally planned for the Silver Towers complex...



http://www.observer.com/2010/real-estate/nyu-ready-grow
NYU Ready to Grow

By Eliot Brown
March 22, 2010

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 community forums with the goal of improving town-gown relations (the topic this month: "NYU's Haitian Relief Efforts").

The effort—aimed at shedding the historically strained, and at times abysmal, relationship with the pernickety Village—is all a prelude to the university's planned major expansion over the next two decades, as it seeks to increase its holdings by 6 million square feet, a key initiative of NYU president John Sexton.

...The most contentious aspect of this plan will surely be the growth of the school in the Village itself, where there's a set that seems ready to scream and yell the moment anyone proposes putting a shovel in the ground.

To this end, according to two people briefed on NYU's general plans, the school intends to move ahead with an earlier circulated proposal to build a tall residential tower in its I.M. Pei-designed Silver Towers complex, among other plans. An earlier draft plan called for a 40-story tower to rise on the site, a modernist tower-in-the-park development that holds a Pablo Picasso sculpture in its central courtyard.

http://www.archpaper.com/e-board_rev.asp?News_ID=4960