Thursday, December 19, 2013

St. John's makes plan to move Manhattan campus to 51 Astor Place official

Just a few days after 51 Astor Place developer Edward Minskoff boasted that he'd have the whole 12-story building leased by the end of next month... comes word from St. John’s University, who announced today that it has leased 71,000 square feet of space for its Manhattan campus. (This move was first rumored in July.)

Here's part of the official news release of the move:

Situated in an area that is home to more than 50,000 college students, the new location will house St. John’s School of Risk Management, a key division of the University’s Peter J. Tobin College of Business and a global leader in risk and insurance education and training.

The School of Risk Management contains the Kathryn & Shelby Cullom Davis Library, which comprises the world’s largest collection of risk and insurance literature, policies, and related documents, and serves as a center for study and research for students of risk management, insurance, and actuarial science around the world.

The location will also be home to The Language Connection, St. John’s intensive English language institute, and to continuing professional education and other academic programs.

St. John’s plans to open 51 Astor Place for the 2014 fall semester. The new site will replace the school’s Manhattan campus in Tribeca, which the University sold for $223 million back in July 2013.

Anyway new incoming students, try the tuna melt across the street at Archie & Sons. Good stuff!

8 comments:

blue glass said...

oh great - does this mean another gang of thoughtful, intelligent, considerate, quiet, studious, innovative, locavore, paid for by daddy (etc, etc) students?

Anonymous said...

Excellent. Not.

NYU, New School, Marymount College, now St. John's. Might as well invite Fordham Univ., St. Francis College, Manhattan College, College of Mt. Vincent, heck, the whole CUNY and SUNY schools to the East Village. East Village is the new Amherst/Harvard Sq./Ann Arbor/Cambridge...

Anonymous said...

Unfortunately, this will continue to create an unbalanced frat-like atmosphere full of transient renters...

Gojira said...

Why the hell are all these non-EV schools invading, don't we have enough dooshy morons infecting this place?

Wax said...

Eeeeew no!

Anonymous said...

LOL... wake up ppl. This is America. Why every1 thinks NYC - the city built on change would stay the same should all move out to Nebraska. Cities ebb and flow and college students beat Donald Trump type palaces like the west side of the city. Stop crying. You don't want to be around people, whether students or others then Wyoming has lots of space

pinhead said...

@11:52 Well which one should I choose, Nebraska or Wyoming? Both sound nice. Please help me decide!

Anonymous said...

We're working hard to save Jerry's newsstand for them!