In the Eastern End of Greenwich Village (but not yet "the East Village"

Seen from the Street, NYU's massive Coles Sports Center is a real fooler...because just about all of it is underground, including of course the huge swimming pool.

In the 1980's I had an alumni membership here ( it had just finally been built) and enjoyed it enormously...I could walk to it from where i lived then, and marching along fast in the depths of winter to get there (sometimes while it was snowing) was fun and also part of my work out.

The big apartment complex of Washington Square Village was built South of NYU --causing howls of protest...later the residents of this place would be some of the biggest protestors when NYU tried to grab more land for development in the area... it was originally meant as affordable housing and was hardly luxury class, but it costs that way to live there now.

Not the NYU Bookstore (which in my day students hated as a "rip off" and a "racket") but just a nice friendly looking one...which brings us to

"Think Coffee"--now this looks like the kind of place a school needs, a place where students and people from the area can come and actually talk to each other over decent coffee..it looks that way, anyway, and since I want it to be that way, let's say it is. There are Starbuck's etc. in the area too of course...where people sit over their desktops in splendid isolation...