Columbus Square

I hear (a rumor) the developer, who is also the sponsor of the Park West Village condos, is having serious financial problems and not paying the common charges on the units he sponsors. I don't know what they are going to do with four, new overpriced, mostly empty buildings the next few years.

Good candidate for the new "Stuy-town/PCV" of the UWS. Also, there is always a demand for elementary/middle school space. In the long run, it's been built, it will be used one way or the other.

as 30yrs once pointed out, it is out of disaster that opportunity arises.

Let's hope they use space for the school since they were allowed to build without regard to any impact to the local elementary school, P.S. 163, which houses kindergarten classes in trailers because of overcrowding. . .and that's before these monsters had been erected.

And also, there are a few failing schools in the area. Would be great if the DOE & the city came up with innovative use (one can hope) of all the space that's going to be coming online. The bottom line is that we want people (sorry if you want a return to the 70s) to stay in the city, pay taxes, etc.