Editing Greenwich Village (section)

====NYU dispute====
[[File:Washington News near University Place.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Washington Mews]] in Greenwich Village]]
[[New York University]] and Greenwich Village preservationists have frequently become embroiled in conflicts between the university's campus expansion efforts and the preservation of the scale and character of the Village.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/03/19/after_a_long_war_can_nyu_and_the_village_ever_make_peace.php |title=After A Long War, Can NYU and the Village Ever Make Peace? |author=Eli Rosenberg |publisher=[[Vox Media Inc.]] |date=March 19, 2014 |access-date=July 28, 2014}}</ref>

As one press critic put it in 2013, "For decades, New York University has waged architectural war on Greenwich Village."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Russell |first1=James |title=NYU Blights Village With Dumpsters, Fencing, Concrete |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-11/nyu-blights-village-with-dumpsters-fencing-concrete.html |publisher=[[Bloomberg News|Bloomberg]] |access-date=August 8, 2014 |date=December 11, 2013}}</ref> In recent years, the university has clashed most prominently with community groups such as the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation over the construction of new NYU academic buildings and residence halls. During the design of Furman Hall in 2000, the site of which is adjacent to the [[Judson Memorial Church]], community groups sued the university, claiming the construction of a 13-story tower on the site would "loom behind the campanile of [the church]" and "mar the historic silhouette of Greenwich Village as viewed from Washington Square Park". Despite a justice in State Supreme Court dismissing the case, the university agreed to a settlement with the groups to avoid future appeals, which included reducing the building to 9 stories and restoring the facades of two historic houses located on the site, the Judson House and a red-brick town house where [[Edgar Allan Poe]] once lived, which NYU reconstructed as they appeared in the 19th century.<ref>{{Cite news |last=O'Grady |first=Jim |date=2001-01-23 |title=N.Y.U. Law School Agrees To Save Part of Poe House |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/23/nyregion/nyu-law-school-agrees-to-save-part-of-poe-house.html |access-date=2022-10-28 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Another dispute arose during the construction of the 26-story Founders Hall, a residence hall planned to be constructed on the site of St. Ann's Church at 120 East Twelfth Street. Amidst protests of the demolition of the church, the university decided to maintain and restore the facade and steeple of the building, parts of which were deteriorating or missing, and it now stands freely directly in front of the 12th Street entrance of the building. Further controversy also arose over the height of the building, as well as how the university would integrate the church's facade into the building's uses; however, in 2006, NYU began construction and the new dorm was completed in December 2008.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Anderson |first1=Lincoln |title=Conceding nothing, NYU starts building megadorm |url=http://thevillager.com/villager_170/concedingnothingnyu.html |access-date=August 8, 2014 |issue=11 |newspaper=[[The Villager (Manhattan)|The Villager]] |date=August 2, 2006 |volume=76 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140820064150/http://thevillager.com/villager_170/concedingnothingnyu.html |archive-date=August 20, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ettinger Engineering Associates {{!}} Portfolio {{!}} New York University Founders Hall |url=http://www.ettingerengineering.com/portfolio_education_nyufoundershall.php |access-date=2022-10-28 |website=www.ettingerengineering.com}}</ref>

In recent years, the most conflict has arisen over the proposed NYU 2031 plan, which the university released in 2010 as its plan for long-term growth, both within and outside of Greenwich Village. This included a court battle over the City of New York's right to transfer three plots of Department of Transportation-owned land to the university for constructing staging, which plaintiffs claimed required the consent of the state legislature. Ultimately, the Appellate Division of New York's Supreme Court ruled in the university's favor after a lower court blocked the expansion plan; however, so far, the university has only begun construction on [[181 Mercer Street]], the first building in the planned {{Convert|1.5|e6ft2|m2|adj=on}} expansion southwards.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Holmes |first=Helen B. |date=2016-11-16 |title=Supreme Court Clears The Way For NYU 2031 Expansion Plan |url=https://nyulocal.com/supreme-court-clears-the-way-for-nyu-2031-expansion-plan-de308f3f6432 |access-date=2022-10-28 |website=Medium |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Bagli |first1=Charles |title=Judge Blocks Part of NYU's Plan for Four Towers in Greenwich Village |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/08/nyregion/judge-blocks-part-of-nyus-plan-for-four-towers-in-greenwich-village.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar |access-date=August 8, 2014 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 7, 2014}}</ref>