This comes from the Downtown Independent Democrats. I encourage everyone in the vicinity to take part in the discussion.

Community Board 2 has changed locations of future meetings on NYU’s expansion plan in order to handle the crowds.
The new locations are listed below. INCLUDING TONIGHT'S [Jan 10] MEETING AT 6:30.

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All meetings begin at 6:30 pm.
TUES JAN 10 TRAFFIC & TRANSPORTATION
Our Lady of Pompeii Church, Father Demo Hall, 25 Carmine Street (Carmine and Bleecker Sts) [NOTE: now passed]

THUR JAN 12 PARKS
Our Lady of Pompeii Church, Father Demo Hall, 25 Carmine Street
TUES JAN 17 SOCIAL SERVICES & EDUCATION (new school)
Judson Church, 55 Washington Square South, upstairs
WED JAN 18 ENVIRONMENT (including Construction Effects)
Our Lady of Pompeii Church, Father Demo Hall, 25 Carmine Street
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We, the people, are making our voices very clear on NYU’s megalomania.
Overcapacity crowds showed up at last week’s Town Hall and again at last night’s Community Board 2 zoning meeting.

See: Tensions High at NYU Expansion Meeting
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/tensions-high-at-nyu-expansion-meeting-20120109

After the Town Hall, a resident spoke privately how she and her husband many years ago were part of the community fight against the elevated Broome St. / Lower Manhattan Expressway. Many may not know of this plan from the 1960's.
If the community did not take a stand and fight, Little Italy and SoHo would not exist, and downtown NYC would have been forever divided in two.

The vibrant communities that exist downtown were fought for by the people.
Our civic outcries and demonstrations are what kept a highway from cutting through Washington Sq. Park and destroying it forever. The Westside waterfront is what it is today because of our citizens (and one species of fish that saved the day).
It is the people who revitalized downtown NYC after 9-11, those who stayed and newcomers that came.

Thanks goes to those who gave of themselves years ago to stand for the community.
Thanks goes to all of us who take up the cause again.

The people understand what makes our communities successful. Our electeds must listen to our voice.

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ALUMNI -
Alumni have had great suggestions to unite as part of the effort, even just to add names to a letter together. If you are an alumni of NYU, send an email to info@didnyc.org. We will forward to CAAN and Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.

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From Community Action Alliance on NYU 2031 (CAAN):
Thanks to all who came out last night and overflowed the original location.
Now we all need to turn out and fill up these larger venues!
If you're on Facebook, please "like" these two pages to get the latest on NYU 2031 and to add your comments on the Plan.

CAAN 2031 - http://www.facebook.com/pages/CAAN-2031/212106785470561
CB2 Manhattan - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Community-Board-No-2-Manhattan/259375004077089

If they're looking for Alumni to get on board, have they talked to Lady Gaga?

In all seriousness, I have only a peripheral interest in this particular issue, but what I do know is that the main reason why development sucks so badly in NYC is that the community is seldom united and politicians, including our so-called "Public" Advocate and our mayor, unite instead with developers almost 100% of the time. So developers get to do what they want for their own profit and screw the community. Even when politicians claim they get all sorts of promises from the developer, they never materialize. What happened to all that affordable housing we were promised with Atlantic Yards? I remember Bill de Blasio and Marty Markowitz making a big deal about that and yet it now is clear it will never happen, but the developer is never held to his promises.

So I urge the community to attend these meetings, listen to both sides, and ask VERY TOUGH QUESTIONS. And if promises are made demand that they be in writing in a legally enforceable form because you cannot trust developers or the politicians who stand with them.