Workers have reached the top of the incoming dorm on Cooper Square and East Sixth Street … and they raised the American flag atop the 13-floor building that will one day house students from Marymount Manhattan College.
I celebrated this occasion by taking 674 photos of the dorm. First, here is the flag, which was not being very cooperative. It was not photogenic and flappy. (Probably blames the wind.)
Previously on EV Grieve:
City OKs 13-floor dorm for Cooper Square
Updated: Here's what the newest East Village dorm will look like
Dig bottoms out on Cooper Square; here comes the dorm, here comes the dorm!
674 photos? I know who you are! Julius Knipl!
ReplyDeleteI wish there was a law that kept all college students in dorms up to 7 years after they graduated. Think of how much nicer our apartment buildings would be.
ReplyDeleteI'm not looking forward to even more students in this neighborhood. The city feels like Animal House below 14th Street. Get ready for more puke and shrieking.
ReplyDeleteWe were walking behind a group of students / recent graduates this weekend and remarking on the fact that they were yelling at each other even though they were on a quiet street, walking close to each other, and not (yet) drunk.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if they are all deaf because they grew up with ear buds and this explains the shrieking and screaming 7 nights a week from 10pm-4am?
I've been drunk plenty of times, I have *never* felt the need to scream at people and the world about how drunk I am.
I hope that the students of architecture at Cooper Union look at these 3 buildings, and before they puke, understand what NOT to do when building their first hi-rises. What a butt-ugly combination of buildings. I bet the architects of at least 2 of these buildings are crying as their reputations crash.
ReplyDeleteI've noticed that too, that they yell at each other even though they're walking side by side. I always figured they thought they sounded exciting and interesting when the fact is it's like listening to 5th graders wax fantastic about recess.
ReplyDeleteI only counted four shots. WTF?
ReplyDeleteCollege students already stay up to more than 7 years in the neighborhood after college. Just look at the EV, full of post college grads never want to grow-up. And that don't make the apartment buildings more nicer because they still treat them like dorms even after college.
ReplyDeleteFlag is concern about her privacy. Photos need arrows. Group of friends talking loudly next to each other is a prime example of "Me! Me! Me! Look at meeeeeeeeee! Listen to meeeeeeeeeee!"
"It was not photogenic and flappy." That's what she said!
I too thought ear buds may be the reason for the yelling but I think it is a combo of self importance "the world needs to hear me because I'm so smart, funny and fun..."
ReplyDeleteChildren which are smaller and lack the lungs to project speak or yell the same way, on these boy men and girl women it's unbearable. I will ask one of them someday to see what they say the reason is however I imagine upi will be dismissed as being "like" crazy or something.