#nyu2031

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Check out this website to get informed about John Sexton's plan and how you can join the fight against it!

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It was a given that NYU's expansion plan would create a commotion -- any proposal cramming 2.4 million square feet, which is about equal to the size the Empire State Building, into a six-block radius will have that effect. The Manhattan Community Board, a collection of citizens from the neighborhoods that make up NYU's core, has already made its opposition to the proposed towers clear ("Flowers Not Towers," for example, is a key slogan). But the decision to construct four high-rises, underground space and an array of "superblocks" below Washington Square Park might be out of their hands.

As the plan begins the long process of approval through the City's bureaucracy, NYU2031, the official name of this real estate behemoth (with its finish date nestled in the title), is slowly transforming into a prospective mayoral issue between two politicians who are expected to butt heads once Bloomberg is out of town: Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President, and Christine Quinn, City Council Speaker.