MANHATTAN

Site of N.Y.U. superblock

PROPOSED NEW CONSTRUCTION

W. THIRD ST.

BLEECKER ST.

W. HOUSTON ST.

La Guardia Building

Silver Towers

Washington Square Village

Mercer Building

Bleecker Building

Zipper Building

Coles Sports Center

Silver Towers

Washington Square Village

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PHOTO BUREAU

ANGEL FRANCO/THE NEW YORK TIMES

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

OZIER MUHAMMAD/THE NEW YORK TIMES

OZIER MUHAMMAD/THE NEW YORK TIMES

EXISTING

EXISTING

EXISTING

EXISTING

PROPOSED

EXISTING

248 feet

162 feet

299 feet

Proposed

BUILDING HEIGHTS VIEWED FROM MERCER STREET

Architectural rendering of proposed new construction in the N.Y.U. superblock

A GIFT OF GREEN The city should tell the university to forget about the two planned towers, and instead open up and redesign the 1.5 acres between the Washington Park Village residential slabs as a park for everyone.

A NEW DORM The city could approve the university’s proposal for a new seven-story dormitory at the corner of Bleecker Street and La Guardia Place, where a supermarket now stands. The dorm could sit atop a new public school, if the city decides it wants one.

ROOM TO BREATHE By shifting the gym’s footprint east, the school imagines making room for a pedestrian street between the new Zipper building and Silver Towers, which would improve what’s now a weedy alleyway.