Founders Hall on 12th Street this morning
In the East Village, parking restrictions are in place around the various residence halls along Third Avenue between Ninth Street and 14th Street and on 14th Street and 12th Street.
Also, the very large (added for the commenter so as not to be "glibly complicit"!) Citi Bike docking station on 11th Street at Third Avenue in front of NYU's Third Avenue North dorm is offline for the weekend. (Thanks, Seth Treiman, for the pic!) ... as is the one on 12th Street just west of Third Avenue.
As always, expect extra vehicular traffic, double/triple parking, and stressed-out parents and guardians.
Always nice to see that to satisfy almighty NYU, the Citibike docking stations (the ones that permanently take up valuable PUBLIC space) can be *removed from use* - yet no one gives a rat's ass how much those damned docking stations cause massive inconvenience to all of us who actually LIVE here 24/7/365.
ReplyDeleteI presume NYU must pull some very powerful strings that are not available to regular people.
Thank you! Agreed. It's insane.
DeleteIs there any consideration for the stressed-out ACTUAL RESIDENTS of these blocks? No, there sure as hell is NOT!
ReplyDeleteWhat exactly is an "actual" resident, and presumably these people are different from fake residents? Don't NYU students who live in the dorms also vote, spend money, have jobs (which means they pay taxes)? Sounds like a residency to me.
DeleteI love the way you blithely write: "Also, the Citi Bike docking station on 11th Street at Third Avenue in front of NYU's Third Avenue North dorm is offline for the weekend." HA! If only it were just "in front of the Third North dorm".
ReplyDeleteBut in reality, as made very clear from that photo, the docking stations on 11th street take up a fucking huge percentage of the ENTIRE BLOCK permanently.
Why are you so glibly complicit in minimizing the very real hostile take-over of our neighborhood's streets & curbs by Citibike's docking stations? Just look at how many buildings that are located EAST of the NYU dorm are being blocked by the docking stations.
The docking stations are taking up the ENTIRE width of the dorm PLUS all those buildings that WE THE PEOPLE live in - and some of us are elderly or infirm.
This is a disgrace. If cars could park there, cars can be moved, but those docks preclude ANY other use of the space for even a minute's time.
So in this situation, the existence of the docking area is 100% RESPONSIBLE for *causing* double-parking.
Thank you. People usually scream at me for being anti-Citibike.
ReplyDeleteMy nephew received his BA MA from NYU and is still unable to secure a good career.
ReplyDeleteThat’s not NYU fault lmao. Just because he went to a good school doesn’t mean his career is just going to fall into place. I went to NYU and am doing perfectly fine.
DeleteLol, what's your point? My friend's son graduated from Harvard and doesn't have a job either. This says more about your nephew than NYU, whose grads as whole are doing well just like most other well known schools.
Deletepuzzled by---'take up valuable public space' :)
ReplyDeleteAs a lifelong New Yorker (who does not know how to driver) I mourn for the pre-Citibike days when Manhattan was great for pedestrians and folks just took the bus or subway.
ReplyDeleteNow near daily hits by Citibike and other cyclists going through red lights, the wrong way etc.
And Citibike siphons from bus and subway - does not reduce cars.
NYU parents have been double and triple parking here years before the $hitty bike stands showed up. It's not like an empty bike stand is suddenly prompting this for student drop offs.
ReplyDeleteI'll add a not popular opinion on this board: I'm elderly, a native and I love Citibike. I have too many health issues to carry a bike up flights of stairs. I can get to appointments medical and otherwise much fast than two busses without the risk of contracting covid again. Instead of being confined to a couple of blocks before my back gives out I can ride to different neighborhoods for errands or just home town sightseeing and walk towards home, grabbing a bike when I get too tired.
ReplyDeleteI've lived here for many decades and think Citibikes are a great improvement.
UGH, the brats are back...with all the added stress they cause in soooo many ways... ;(
ReplyDeleteNYU has been buying up our neighborhood for decades. And just like James Dolan & his MSG, NYU is a private organization yet they don’t pay property taxes. I think NYU, and every student that attends their school, should have to pay congestion pricing. And same for all the bicycle riders.
ReplyDeleteA student should have to pay congestion pricing merely for attending a school even if they don't drive? Im guessing most NYU students don't keep cars on campus. What you propose makes no sense and is likely not even legal.
Delete@ 4:23 PM - Congestion pricing for bicycles? How would that work? Would this come in before or after automobile congestion pricing? Any bicycle in Manhattan on a per day rate? Do I get charged if I don't ride that day? Would there be a carve out for roller skates and scooters? If it's congestion what about crowds at brunch spots? Do we include pedestrians? A mandatory smartphone app that charges anyone annoying?
ReplyDelete@8:48am: Oh, come on! Of course the damn bike docks make EVERYTHING worse when NYU is trying to move thousands of people into dorms in one weekend. And that is particularly true when it comes to forcing DOUBLE PARKING & TRIPLE PARKING on move-in weekend.
ReplyDeleteAll of us who live here & pay taxes here are deemed to be 2nd class citizens compared to those families that can afford to drop $75,000-85,000 a year for their kids to live it up at NYU. Those kids consider the East Village to be their personal playground. I wonder what would happen if NYU's dorms were over on Avenue C?
For at least the last 2-3 years, they've been having a street fair on 4th Avenue between 9th and 14th Streets on the Sunday that hundreds (or thousands) of extra cars are trying to drop off kids at their new dorms in this neighborhood. Who thinks this is a good idea? Why do we need more traffic jams and honking on an already annoying day?
ReplyDeleteI live on this block on 11 Street and have for 17 years. Move in week is not an inconvenience, it’s pretty well managed and only half of the block is closed for car parking, including in front of my building. I barely notice the NYU kids when the dorm is full, they are well behaved and there really aren’t any antics. Reading these comments, people seem to have a perceived negative idea in their heads of what the college kids are like but the reality is not the case. I do think NYU is pathetic in that it doesn’t maintain any of the planters and trees wells in front of their dorm though. That says a lot about their commitment to the neighborhood and wider community.
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