{"id":186,"date":"2012-02-10T22:46:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T03:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/?p=186"},"modified":"2012-10-30T13:29:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T18:29:05","slug":"nyus-back-door-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/2012\/02\/nyus-back-door-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"NYU&#8217;s back door problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York University has bought a lot of old buildings in the Washington Square area, and built a bunch of new ones.\u00a0 This is a great example of adaptive reuse and infill development, better than building satellite campuses.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not like they haven&#8217;t tried the suburban campus thing before: Bronx Community College occupies their old main campus, and Hofstra University was originally a branch of NYU.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-02-01-NYU-backdoor-problem.49.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-188\" title=\"NYU's back door problem\" src=\"http:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-02-01-NYU-backdoor-problem.49-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-02-01-NYU-backdoor-problem.49-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-02-01-NYU-backdoor-problem.49-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Unfortunately, NYU hasn&#8217;t figured out how to integrate itself well at the street level.\u00a0 The old stores, factories and apartments it replaced had multiple street entrances, but entrances are expensive to guard, so NYU only has one or two per building.\u00a0 In some buildings there is street-level retail, often aimed at students and faculty, but many more have no entrances or windows.\u00a0 You can see this in the above photo, looking west on Third Street, away from Washington Square Village.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York University has bought a lot of old buildings in the Washington Square area, and built a bunch of new ones.\u00a0 This is a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-greenwich-village"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}