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The single-family residence, which was used as housing for the university’s presidents, offers a rare opportunity to live on one of the most coveted blocks.
NEW YORK — The president of the New School in Manhattan is about to lose an extraordinary perk: a five-story West Village town house that for decades has served as the university head’s official residence. The school, which projected a $52 million budget shortfall for the 2024 fiscal year, is asking $20 million for the home as it seeks to stabilize its finances. The sale comes as shaky student enrollment, inflation and other forces are threatening smaller colleges in New York City and around the
As the number of students heading to college has dropped in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and as less wealthy institutions fight for students, more have been turning to real estate sales as a way to plug budget gaps and buoy endowments.
A group of hundreds of student workers at The New School are calling for the university to consider them union employees, after being excluded from the school’s existing student union, SENS-UAW.
The group’s monthslong efforts for recognition under the existing union culminated in a petition filed