Filed under: News | Tags: Community Board, fordham, Lincoln Center, Settlement
This just in from the New York Times:
Fordham University, after months of contentious discussions with community groups and elected officials, has reached a compromise on its proposal to turn its four-building site near Lincoln Center into a 12-building campus. (Read more…)
More high-rises in midtown?!?
-Pete
It appears that Fordham University has joined the sorry cast of figures doomed to suffer great indignities to survive this “Recession.” In order to make a little money to get by in these hard times, Fordham will be renting out facilities at Lincoln Center to conventions to the tune of one million dollars, according to crainsnewyork.com.
In these desperate times, where money is so tight, one must ask of this notoriously stingy institution: Where does our $40,000 a year tuition go to? Does it go Barnes & Noble so they can set up shop on our campus and scalp us on text books? Or does it go to Sodexo so that they can provide a poorly run service and nickle-and-dime our room and board? Who knows?
In news that will surely have Father McShane ripping his red moustache in frustration, a local community bored in mid-town Manhattan is expected to vote down an endorsement of Fordham U’s big bad plan to explained further into the Starbucks style wasteland that is 59th Street on the West Side.
There's Just No Reasoning With These People!
In addition to that the board appears to be driven to tangle up Daddy Mac’s grand scheme of selling back land the school purchased through eminent domain to make condos, or some shit.
the paper’s eminent domain expert, Harold Quaab XLII claims that the reasoning behind the boards decision stems from their ultimate desire to see an end to the endless parade of lame-wads pretending to be Carrie Bradshaw livin’ it up in the city pretending to inhale cigarettes.
-Charles
