University Village (Manhattan)

Coordinates: 40°43′39″N 73°59′58″W / 40.72761°N 73.99939°W / 40.72761; -73.99939
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University Village
The Silver Towers and 505 LaGuardia Place
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General information
TypeHousing
LocationGreenwich Village
Coordinates40°43′39″N 73°59′58″W / 40.72761°N 73.99939°W / 40.72761; -73.99939
Construction startedSeptember 1964
Completed1966
Opening1967
Cost$12,500,000
OwnerNew York University
Height
Roof275 feet (84 m)[1]
Technical details
Floor count30
Floor area612,000 square feet (56,900 m2)
Design and construction
Architect(s)James Ingo Freed & I. M. Pei
New York City Landmark
DesignatedNovember 18, 2008
Reference no.2300

The University Village is a complex of three

New York City designated landmark.[2]

History

Construction

In 1953 the Mayor's Commission on Slum Clearance designated three

Stern School of Business, and Warren Weaver Hall.[3] However, poor sales of apartments in the central superblock's Washington Square Village
buildings led the corporation to sell the southernmost superblock to NYU in 1960. As part of the sale, NYU was required to develop 175 units of low-income housing on the site.

In 1960 NYU hired I. M. Pei & Associates, later known as

Mitchell-Lama program to fulfill the requirement for low-income housing, while the towers at 100 and 110 Bleecker Street would become apartments for University faculty and graduate students.[3][7]

Later years

In 1974 the two towers housing University faculty and graduate students were renamed for

elementary school
run by NYU on the eastern part of the superblock.

In 2003 the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation requested that the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designate the entire superblock as a historic landmark. [8] This would have included the three towers, the central courtyard, a Morton Williams supermarket on the site since 1961 that NYU purchased in 2000, and the Coles Sports & Recreation Center.[9] In 2008 the Commission completed hearings on the request and designated the three towers and the central courtyard as a Historic Landmark. [10] This effectively ended NYU's plan of adding a fourth 40-story tower to the site as part of its NYU 2031 plan, as the smaller area designated as a landmark covered the possible locations of any new building.[9]

In July 2012, the New York City Council voted approval of the “NYU 2031” plan for university expansion, which called for construction of two new buildings on the Silver Towers superblock, and two more on the Washington Square Village superblock, for a total of 1.9 million square feet of new residential, academic, office and other space. A coalition of opponents, led by NYU Faculty Against the Sexton Plan and the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, fought the plan for several years — both before and after City Council approval — culminating in a legal challenge filed in September 2012.[11] In January 2014, New York State Supreme Court Justice Donna Mills blocked much of the plan.[12] Opponents declared victory, but NYU appealed the decision. In January 2023 the university opened a new tower on the east side of the superblock, the largest building on its Washington Square campus, named in recognition of a $100 million gift from hedge fund magnate John Paulson.[13]

Structure

The complex consists of three thirty-story cast-in-place concrete towers arranged in a pinwheel plan around a 100-foot-square (30 m) courtyard.

bush-hammered to partially expose the aggregate base of the concrete. Also part of the complex is a circular concrete sitting area on the southeast section of the site that was part of the original plan and a playground south of the sitting area that was designed by the original architect in 1967.[3]

Artwork

In the courtyard at the center of the complex is a 36-foot-high (11 m)

Jeanne-Claude in 1972 to wrap the sculpture in brown fabric was never completed.[3]

Awards and honors

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b c "University Plaza, New York University". Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. Retrieved July 2, 2009.
  2. ^ a b Postal, Matthew A. (November 18, 2008). "University Village" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Retrieved July 2, 2009.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Higgins Quasebarth & Partners, LLC (June 2008). "University Village" (PDF). Retrieved July 2, 2009.
  4. ^ a b "N 090217 HKM" (PDF). New York City Planning Commission. January 7, 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 19, 2009. Retrieved July 2, 2009.
  5. ^ "The University Plaza". Emporis. Archived from the original on October 23, 2006. Retrieved July 2, 2009.
  6. ^ "The University Plaza Apartments I". Skyscraper Source Media Inc. 2009. Retrieved July 2, 2009.
  7. ISBN 978-1-4236-1116-5
    .
  8. ^ a b c Berman, Andrew (December 8, 2003). "Letter to Robert Tierney" (PDF). Silver Towers. The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. Retrieved July 2, 2009.
  9. ^ a b c Amateau, Albert (July 2, 2008). "How much of N.Y.U. superblock to landmark is issue". The Villager. Community Media LLC. Retrieved July 2, 2009.
  10. ^ "Silver Towers and Picasso sculpture landmarked". The Real Deal. November 18, 2008. Archived from the original on May 8, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2009.
  11. ^ "NYU Faculty, Students, Tenants and Alumni...Call on BP Stringer to Vote No" (PDF). Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (Press release). March 22, 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 10, 2014. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
  12. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved July 28, 2020.
  13. ^ Beaty, Thalia (December 14, 2022). "NYU names new building after hedge fund leader John Paulson". Associated Press. Retrieved May 1, 2023.
  14. ^ Baldock, Melissa (June 24, 2008). "MAS Position on University Village, aka Silver Towers 1 & 2". The Municipal Art Society of New York. Retrieved July 2, 2009.
  15. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved July 28, 2020.
  16. ^ a b "Sylvette David". Anthony Petullo Collection. 2009. Retrieved July 14, 2009.
  17. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved July 28, 2020.
  18. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved July 28, 2020.
  19. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved July 28, 2020.

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