NYU Housing Expansion Reaching New Heights
Is Brooklyn Heights in danger of being overrun by beer-swilling college co-eds? The St. George Hotel, at the corner of Clark and Henry streets, is already home to a crew of Pace University undergrads and recent news of NYU’s growth plans, including a planned merger with Polytechnic University and the take-over of the existing rental…
Is Brooklyn Heights in danger of being overrun by beer-swilling college co-eds? The St. George Hotel, at the corner of Clark and Henry streets, is already home to a crew of Pace University undergrads and recent news of NYU’s growth plans, including a planned merger with Polytechnic University and the take-over of the existing rental building at 67 Livingston Street (right) this fall by more than 100 grad students, adds fuel to the fire. For now, though, it doesn’t appear that there’s any near-term threat and the Brooklyn Heights Association, for one, isn’t fazed. It seems to us like a no-brainer that NYU will build some dormitories amidst the many towers that are springing up in Downtown Brooklyn. The expense and relative scarcity of land and air rights in the Heights, however, would appear to make it a less likely target location. Of course, you could say the same thing about Greenwich Village, so ya never know.
NYU Has Eyes on Brooklyn, Queens [Metro]
NYU Eyes Brooklyn [Brooklyn Paper] GMAP
NYU, Poly Merger Talks To Resume [NY Sun]
NYU Could Expand Into D’town Brooklyn [Eagle]
Does anyone know anything about 59 Livingston ? I’ve just foolishly rented an apartment there without doing my homework. Tell me about the creaky floorboards, rats and super from hell. But be kind.
Does anyone know anything about 59 Livingston ? I’ve just foolishly rented an apartment there without doing my homework. Tell me about the creaky floorboards, rats and super from hell. But be kind.
Wow 7:42 — that’s some terrible stuff. I think Fulton Mall will likely lose it’s edgy image what with Bellel, 110 Livingston, 200 Livingston, Oro, the Myrtle Ave projects, and I’m forgetting some other developments downtown. phes
Agree about the racism in the Heights. Know of at least one school that allows the kids to go out to lunch but gives them detention for setting foot in the Fulton Mall.
I personally don’t mind walking through Court Street – mainly because I live on Livingston and don’t really have a choice. While there could certainly be better options than the Lowes/B&N, it at least brings people around and I always feel safer when there’s a crowd. I do think it’s a bit of a shame how crappy Joralemon to Montague on Court is, we definitely could use some better places to eat down in this part of BK Heights, I always wind up going down past Atlantic either on Court or to Smith for dinners.
guest 6:46 here.
you’re talkin about Court south of Remsen, not north. Court north of Remsen would be Montague and then Court becomes Cadman at Pierrepont. I live on State, and it’s amazing to see how few people from deeper in the heights seem to venture anywhere near the Loews/B&N complex. Trying to keep my theories to myself (let’s just say I’ve run into an amazing number of racist people in this neighborhood), I’m just gonna say I wouldn’t be too surprised if people wouldn’t be happy if that area just sorta burned to the ground.
I think it’s a godsend, personally.
It’s Remsen-Joralemon-Livingston-SCHERMERHORN-State-Atlantic.
Well, Remsen to Atlantic is really four blocks. Remsen-Joralemon-Livingston-State-Atlantic. this stretch of Court should be one of the nicest commercial streets in the Boro, but instead it is pretty low-market. It used to be much worse before the Loew’s multiplex and Barnes & Nobles.
People from Brooklyn Heights never set foot on this stretch -except maybe to go to Bruno’s Hardware. That is part of the problem. But the principal thing is that this is Brooklyn, it ain’t Central Paris, y’know? It ain’t the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The real estate prices may be Champs Elyses, or Via Veneto, but at the end of the day, it’s still little old Brooklyn. We should not forget that.
I’m hoping the neighborhood will turn into something like 3rd below 14th, so I can stop going out there for my reckless partying entertainment. As someone who has lived in the neighborhood a year now, I must say the place is awfully boring in terms of the nightlife. If these college students bring more bars and *dare I say it* some genuine clubs out by here, I for one would be a very happy camper.
As for Court north of Remsen, that’s all of two blocks long on Google Maps, unless you mean to include Cadman Plaza, which I would’ve thought to be more approrpiate for dorm-esque kinda housing to begin with.