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City Planning Commission Chair Amanda Burden
22 Reade Street
New York, NY 10007
FAX: 212-720-3219
Dear Chair Burden:
I am outraged about NYU’s plan to build a 26-story dorm – to be the tallest building in the East Village – on East 12th Street. It is time for the City to stop protecting NYU, and start protecting our neighborhood from NYU’s aggressive overdevelopment.
There are two things the City can and must do to protect this neighborhood. First, they must work with NYU to find locations OUTSIDE of the Village for future growth by the university, so our neighborhood does not become even more saturated with NYU facilities. Second, the City MUST include the 3rd and 4th Avenue corridors in the currently planned East Village rezoning, from which they are currently excluded. Leaving these blocks out gives NYU a free hand to continue to overdevelop EXACTLY the area they have earmarked for much of their ongoing and overwhelming growth.
Developments like the one planned by NYU destroy the character of our neighborhood, and are completely inappropriate in their size and scale. I hope we can count on you to protect the character of our neighborhoods rather than just the interests of the largest private university in the world.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg
City Hall
New York, NY 10007
FAX: 212/788-8123
To e-mail, go to http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html
Dear Mayor Bloomberg:
I am outraged about NYU’s plan to build a 26-story dorm – to be the tallest building in the East Village – on East 12th Street. It is time for the City to stop protecting NYU, and start protecting our neighborhood from NYU’s aggressive overdevelopment.
There are two things the City can and must do to protect this neighborhood. First, they must work with NYU to find locations OUTSIDE of the Village for future growth by the university, so our neighborhood does not become even more saturated with NYU facilities. Second, the City MUST include the 3rd and 4th Avenue corridors in the currently planned East Village rezoning, from which they are currently excluded. Leaving these blocks out gives NYU a free hand to continue to overdevelop EXACTLY the area they have earmarked for much of their ongoing and overwhelming growth.
Developments like the one planned by NYU destroy the character of our neighborhood, and are completely inappropriate in their size and scale. I hope we can count on you to protect the character of our neighborhoods rather than just the interests of the largest private university in the world.
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Sincerely,
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Address