CUNY Dorm Proposal is PASSED by CB2 - Long Island Student City lives

Not bad!

The good guys win!

"Grad students and hipsters on the way. LIC further diversifies..."

Sorry, had to take a minute to get my breath back from guffawing so hard. In a borough which may well be the most diverse place on Earth, a borough that has a subway line (the 7) named as a National Millenium Trail because of the many types of neighborhoods it winds through (it was nominated for the honor by a former program director of the QCA)--are grad students and hipsters really considered the vanguard of diversification? Or, as the evidence points to, is "Manhattan East" becoming as white and homogenized as New York County itself?

Oh Relix a person after my own heart. Why is it that so few see the nonsense through the trees. This was just another sales job. And the big guys with power win win win! For their own benefit! The developer doubled their FAR by dangling eye candy. That Sid Davidoff, look at his past. And if you dig around QCA, it ain't much sweeter. How about the festival the directer threw in her neighbor hood (the Rockaways) that no one showed up to. Wonder how many Thousands were spent on that. Talk about power in the wrong hands.

The difference between 7 stories and 13 stories is a lot--from my view, anyway. I sure hope I'm getting something positive in my neighborhood for that. Well, I guess any arts council, on the up and up or not, is better than just more condos...

Hey Rexlic - if you haven't been following previous threads - the diversification of LIC with hipsters and grad students is a joke. Some feel a dorm would bring in 'unwanted transients' others feel it will help foster amenities. I dunno if this building alone will have any perceptible impact, but after talking to the QCA, I'm glad at least they are coming to LIC. Regardless of whatever controversial political clouds are hovering over it.

Pretty sweet for the CUNY students who get assigned to that dorm.

Yeah, in about 4-10 years.

ccny gets in the real estate biz. Using whose money? It's too transparent to be that impressive, but it is a pause-giver to see education in the hands of jackals

Thanks for clearing that up for me rexlic, here I was thinking everyone was an individual and had something special to contribute to the community. Especialy younger generations with new ideas. NOW I know that white is always homogenized as clearly anyone who is white clearly has nothing original to contribute...to anything. You on the other hand are serving up a fresh steaming load of racism, thanks.