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Article: New York City community remains skeptical about Cooper Union's development plans
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- The Ukrainian Weekly
- Article date:
- June 9, 2002
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Nynka, Andrew
Ukrainian Weekly, The
06-09-2002
NEW YORK - With the clock officially running on Cooper Union's large scale
development plan - a plan which Ukrainian East Village residents argue
could adversely and permanently affect their nearly 150 year-old community
- local government review boards have emphatically voted against approving
the school's intended expansion. Furthermore, the school's hiring of a new
architectural firm has sparked the call of residents and elected government
officials to have the clock on the one-year process stopped.
Residents argue that Cooper Union's refusal to stop the clock, as well as
the school's obstinacy in past attempts at compromise, all confirm the
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