With Doors Open to Neighbors, N.Y.U. Shapes Plan for Growth

This article is from The New York Times by Karen W. Erenson dated July 2, 2007 (may require registration):

New York University and Greenwich Village seem woven into each other. The geographic location has been a powerful lure for students and faculty, the school a steady source of youth, commerce and intellectual vitality for the neighborhood.

But some who live there year in and year out have complained that the university’s expansion was helter-skelter and its buildings ugly and enormous, and that both were ruining the Village.

Now the university, more popular than ever among the nation’s high school seniors, says it will need about 6 million more square feet over the next 25 years, at least some of it in the Greenwich Village area.