tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post4667665561764550820..comments2024-03-28T16:06:42.424-04:00Comments on EV Grieve: City approves dorm conversion plans for the former PS 64 on East 9th StreetUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-75929116149563536282014-08-24T20:45:34.666-04:002014-08-24T20:45:34.666-04:00Joaquin at 11:55 AM said:
"Cooper Union stud...Joaquin at 11:55 AM said:<br /><br /><i>"Cooper Union students are much more tolerable."</i><br /><br />Ha, ha, ha—I guess you've never been to a Cooper Union frat party?<br /><br />—Cooper grad hereScuba Divahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10326884503725331349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-11126191787674949932014-08-21T17:53:48.267-04:002014-08-21T17:53:48.267-04:00Joffrey students are mostly high school age and mu...Joffrey students are mostly high school age and must have adults living on the floor. Ballet students are the quietest students out there. They are too busy and too tired to get into trouble. <br /><br />There is almost no housing except for the School of American Ballet dorm for the many dance students who study in NYC. This is affordable housing for the people in the arts who make NYC a cultural magnet for the world.m_pipikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01208930231493818761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-80925358673011246472014-08-21T05:25:14.595-04:002014-08-21T05:25:14.595-04:00Too bad the previous "community center" ...Too bad the previous "community center" ran an enormous former public school building as a clubhouse for their friends and a huge pigeon coop. A "community center" shouldn't stand mostly vacant for a decade plus. The 23 story skyscraper plan was stopped and now the scaffold areas will stop being a drunken junkie theme park and no-scoop dog poop zone. Honestly what did people expect? DiBlasio to wave his hand and make it 1989 without the crackheads? The East Village has been over since at least the late 90s. It's 2014. Students? Why not? Or are millionaire condo buyers "edgier".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-23222697187947913462014-08-20T21:26:00.924-04:002014-08-20T21:26:00.924-04:00As someone who works in the area of theis building...As someone who works in the area of theis building, I am glad it will be cleaned up and be put to use. the incoming college kids are just that, kids. The hate many express is sickening and unconstructive. Let's work together to help others and make the EV a better place to live for everyone. NYU, kids, having a glass of wine or a cocktail with dinner is not going away and never will. Let's focus our energy on helping others and the community we all want to live in will appear.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-62055866611228942362014-08-20T17:00:51.955-04:002014-08-20T17:00:51.955-04:00@6:32, There's no arguing w/someone like you. ...@6:32, There's no arguing w/someone like you. Do you work on Wall St. or belong to a fraternity? Your comment suggests that type of mentality. Also who's whining? These are facts about what is really happening to the area. Did you save up to pay your own way here or did mommy and daddy help you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-11920462257487380062014-08-20T16:14:56.074-04:002014-08-20T16:14:56.074-04:00EV really has disproportionate # of dorms. Note: d...EV really has disproportionate # of dorms. Note: dorms, not students. <br /><br />It was a bit different when students moved into buildings -- more of a "fabric of the neighborhood" feeling, meeting neighbors of different ages and backgrounds, creating a community. <br /><br />Maybe times are changing, and maybe many existing residents will move away. <br /><br />But telling people to just be quiet really isn't helping things.<br /><br />Some of the behavior that impacts all residents is born of a mentality where anything goes. <br /><br />Moreover, with so many new bars, the Thurs-Sun. influx of people to the neighborhood is at an all time high, creating another set of issues.<br /><br />There is an attitude on the streets that was never a part of this neighborhood.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-72902650473358049862014-08-19T18:32:31.077-04:002014-08-19T18:32:31.077-04:00Some of you keep referring to people being forced ...Some of you keep referring to people being forced out. The reality is a lot of whiners here are only aggrieved because they thought they got over by scoring a lifetime of stabilized rent and now they can't move. Call whine one one then. You come across as entitled and pathetic. Who cares about Fran Lebowitz and her opinion? You can't afford to move so the neighborhood has to cater to you? Sorry. You don't own the ev or NYC. Some could argue a city is a great campus .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-81455642775564686302014-08-19T16:31:24.334-04:002014-08-19T16:31:24.334-04:00Wow - what a sea of cynical condescending comment...Wow - what a sea of cynical condescending comments on college age citizens. No pleasing the whiners. I'm glad the building will be restored and used. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-37561078716535280362014-08-19T15:49:51.131-04:002014-08-19T15:49:51.131-04:00God I wish I could move God I wish I could move Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-83404966070475109712014-08-19T14:08:42.143-04:002014-08-19T14:08:42.143-04:00The real problem is that there is nothing preventi...The real problem is that there is nothing preventing this from being a "dorm" for a few years and then, after the leases are up with the colleges, it being converted to high price condos or some such.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-60652797147302945882014-08-19T11:55:47.852-04:002014-08-19T11:55:47.852-04:00Ugh, that sucks.
Then again, at least it's n...Ugh, that sucks. <br /><br />Then again, at least it's not an NYU dorm or another residential place for yuppies and frat types. Cooper Union students are much more tolerable. Joaquinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-3742070981090601332014-08-19T09:50:54.198-04:002014-08-19T09:50:54.198-04:00As StuyTown has learned it's not just the 535 ...As StuyTown has learned it's not just the 535 students, its all the extra traffic they bring with them from their busy social lives. Each student will bring in an additional o 3-4 friends who come to visit regularly, plus family members, for a total of 2000+ additional people on this formerly nice quiet block. Eventually these dorms are converted to condos which at least are quiet since so few people live in them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-68134926068040021002014-08-19T09:42:38.076-04:002014-08-19T09:42:38.076-04:00In the past few years the area around Tompkins squ...In the past few years the area around Tompkins square is awash with beautiful, mostly white middle-class infants born to the new residents in the formerly depressed housing. Would it be too rational to use the building for a public school? Just a thought.kopphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03567249483720211559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-44100656316969408632014-08-19T09:23:12.239-04:002014-08-19T09:23:12.239-04:00I agree with kopp above. we should try to think lo...I agree with kopp above. we should try to think long term, this building will be around hopefully many years to come and nothing new at this spot would be an aesthetic improvement. If we can't preserve our way of like at least we can leave our historical buildings to future generations. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-90238022868041769822014-08-19T08:47:24.414-04:002014-08-19T08:47:24.414-04:00I've lived in sight of the building for 38 ye...I've lived in sight of the building for 38 years. For a short time it was a community center (Charas) that served the needs of a constituency that can no longer afford the neighborhood and has been forced out. For the past ten years it has been a hostel for pigeons who shelter in the building through its broken windows. I've been waiting in dread for an arson fire to light up the night sky. Preserving the landmark building for students is certainly better than building a tower at the site as developer Singer once proposed. kopphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03567249483720211559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-53099746045140083942014-08-19T08:44:54.721-04:002014-08-19T08:44:54.721-04:00@9:43 AM Sadly you are correct, and the first NYU ...@9:43 AM Sadly you are correct, and the first NYU student suicide has just happened,a med student jumped to his death yesterday from Vilcek Hall, an NYU dorm in Kips Bay. <br /><br />http://nypost.com/2014/08/18/nyu-medical-grad-jumps-to-his-death-from-dorm-roof/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-43048844501736932902014-08-19T08:18:58.156-04:002014-08-19T08:18:58.156-04:00Fran Lebowitz in an interview said that Manhattan ...Fran Lebowitz in an interview said that Manhattan was never supposed to be, and should not be, a college campus. And she's right. Cities are not college campuses. They have an entirely different dynamic, which is why, as Fran said, college campuses should be built on the outskirts or where there's lots of sprawl. College life is by no means reality. Real-life starts when you get a job and are able to support yourself. That's when you move to a city and assimilate with the locals. College students have no idea how to do that. And why should they or even care? They aren't paying for their residence. That's why the EV is nothing but obnoxious drunks now. All theses dorms have definitely ruined the area. As someone else mentioned here, The EV is now just a shell of it's former self, and saying it's still "cool" doesn't make it so. I got out and am so glad I did. It wasn't an easy decision either, as I formerly loved the neighborhood…… before it was ruined.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-87582020107769339872014-08-18T18:27:18.240-04:002014-08-18T18:27:18.240-04:00If they put in a roof deck this place will have th...If they put in a roof deck this place will have the biggest roof rages in town!<br /><br />I don't care if they are ballet dancers, I saw the movie Black Swan, and ballet dancers can party just as hard as an NYU freshman on extra-strength Molly.Billsvillenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-5062120666016934122014-08-18T18:00:48.708-04:002014-08-18T18:00:48.708-04:00when I first arrived on East Ninth Street...this o...when I first arrived on East Ninth Street...this old school building - directly across the street from my pad - was a deserted shell in a rather edgy area...but I'm now able to sleep tight at night...the affluent kids of suburbia will now frolic to and fro...as they shield their gaze from my decaying carcass...while pursuing their future dreams in what is now being labelled a dorm space, but, of course, will surely become a multi-million dollar condo deal...for Wall Street investors...?Armand. A. Ruhlmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15019974303854388679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-18332320649187556632014-08-18T16:45:43.645-04:002014-08-18T16:45:43.645-04:00Don't they have enough dorms in Hoboken?Don't they have enough dorms in Hoboken?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-22831927208746123032014-08-18T16:43:27.523-04:002014-08-18T16:43:27.523-04:00“both The Joffrey Ballet School and”
This will be...“both The Joffrey Ballet School and”<br /><br />This will be some MAJOR smoking going down at the front of entrance to this dorm.<br />Crazy Eddienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-61527896497692833002014-08-18T16:29:16.961-04:002014-08-18T16:29:16.961-04:00Fashion By Meh, the new SMDPSHT.Fashion By Meh, the new SMDPSHT.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-46833378047094413432014-08-18T15:59:42.901-04:002014-08-18T15:59:42.901-04:00Let me try again- I was trying to say that when th...Let me try again- I was trying to say that when the mayor wants affordable housing its not for folks priced out of the east village. It for those staying in shelters who need permanent housing. I tried to point out how those who claim to be progressive would more than likely not be receptive to this type of housing and how hypocritical they are. If the racial subtext makes you uncomfortable I am sorry. is this phrased better? and anon at 3:29 you are a classic gentrifier. Im sure the locals will welcome you with open arms.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-44372641002307584932014-08-18T15:29:51.733-04:002014-08-18T15:29:51.733-04:00What a waste. Would have been perfect for Artists ...What a waste. Would have been perfect for Artists in Residence with gallery and performance space. The students have ruined this neighborhood. Although I would take the Cooper kids or NYU any day. The EV is now nothing more than half college town half Disney theme village for the tourists with some local color hold up in stabilized apts while they last. Hate to say it but I'm leaving. Hit the apt lotto an managed to get a huge 1 bdrm 2 bath stabilized unit in lenox hill. Not excited to be in Midtown/uptown but will be saving thousands a month in rent and unfortunately the EV is a mere shadow of it's former self with way to many posers who haven't realized that just moving to a (formerly) hip neighbor hood does not make you hip. With cheaper rents larger spaces and a lack of bro's as one person called them Uptown is the new Downtown. Hope to see you all up here. Time to stake out some new territory. Look out George and Weezie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-21247011672929744482014-08-18T15:28:03.802-04:002014-08-18T15:28:03.802-04:00NYU dorm price http://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/...NYU dorm price http://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/resLifeHousServ/documents/AY20132014_Rates.pdf. <br /><br />With those prices, no wonder why they feel so entitled in throwing tantrums and being brats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com