A group of Greenwich Village residents said they would file a lawsuit against NYU if it does not preserve a local supermarket sitting on university-owned land. The supermarket, a Morton Williams that has been at risk of being demolished for years, could be displaced to make room for a school due to a 2012 agreement.
A group of local residents calling for NYU to save a supermarket on university-owned land took the fight to the its front door on Wednesday, the latest development in a yearslong battle for the grocery store. Protesters gathered outside Bobst Library to call for a local Morton Williams, located at the intersection of Bleecker St..
More than a year after it was slated to be demolished, a beloved Greenwich Village supermarket still faces an uncertain future and residents are making a renewed push to keep it around. The organizers of Save Our Supermarket, or SOS, said they hope to put extra pressure on the city and NYU, which owns the property, to save the Morton Williams.