<p>students???</p>
<p>That is ridiculous. The student culture/ youth culture in the Village gives the area a vibrancy…and anyone living in the Village was probably attracted to that or they wouldn’t be living there to begin with.</p>
<p>There are certainly people in the Village as well as NYU students themselves who feel that NYU is expanding too much and building too many (high) structures.</p>
<p>But to say that all New Yorkers hate NYU students is just ridiculous. I doubt most New Yorkers even think about it.</p>
<p>New Yorkers definitely don’t hate NYU. A lot of people from my school (in NYC) are extatic about going there. However, I can’t speak for those in the Village, but I highly doubt they hate it.</p>
<p>New York City is far more than just that part of Manhattan. I’m sure most New Yorkers don’t even think about NYU, let alone hate its students.</p>
<p>The reason why you read this type of headline is because of the NYU 2031 (200 yr anniversary) expansion plan. To be competitive NYU needs to built more space for education and research. There is a very small but vocal community opposing the build up of NYU. They (just like the some political groups) are well organized and access the media. However, NYU is the blood of Greenwich Village. Gown and town relationships are strained in some locations across the US because of the tax exemptions of the universities. The towns survive because of the colleges. NYU-Greenwich is not the worse or best I have seen. I would characterize it as average if you include all people in the area, but it has flared because of the recently announced plans for expansion and building up of tall structures.</p>
<p>Greenwhich village, at times, does in fact dislike the university, as it has 43,000 students and according to them, ruins the village atmosphere that was originally here. Many of the residents here do not want NYU to expand, since they feel that NYU will be overrunning the village. This statement is partially true, in that sense. However, it’s not as though people walk around in the village saying “I hate NYU”, etc. etc.</p>
<p>As someone who grew up and went to school through 9th grade in Union Square, I feel like I’m qualified to answer this question.</p>
<p>The short answer here is no. The average New Yorker is way too busy to be thinking about a group like NYU students who don’t directly affect them. HOWEVER, NYU students do have a reputation throughout the city as spoiled underachievers, I really don’t know how that happened, but honestly it is fact. For the most part though, New Yorkers don’t have a problem with NYUers as long as they stay out of their way. Again however, some NYU students have a problem staying out of the way. For example, two weeks ago I was visiting my sister who happens to live on the lower east side. It was very late at night (I’d say around 1, but I’m not entirely sure) and I was heading back to her house, only a few blocks away I was stopped by a Tisch student who said I couldn’t go that way because they were filming. Annoyed, I took a two block and grumbled about how an amateur film maker should not have the right to inconvenience New Yorkers. This is a fairly common practice particularly among Tisch students, which has given New Yorkers who deal with it frequently (mainly those who spend a lot of time in the village) a very bad image of NYU. So to sum it all up, New Yorkers won’t hate you just because you go to NYU, but there are definitely some negative stereotypes that come along with it.</p>
<p>Hmm well at least I know that ill probably not live in Greenwich Village then. lol</p>
<p>I don’t think people hate NYU students, I believe it’s more the institutions of NYU. They have a reputation for expanding and buying historic buildings in Greenwich Village, which has a rich history and culture and there are some very dedicated individuals who want to maintain some semblance of the original culture and charm of area. An example is a historic theater building that was right on the square, on MacDouglal street, NYU literally tore it down, despite the residents objections. They also took a really nice church and tore that down and made a a trashy looking catholic center. These are just some of the things that they do that p i s s the neighbors off.</p>
<p>hotpotato, do you think it’s okay for professional filmmakers to block off parts of the city when they film? Or modeling agencies to shoot, or special events to block off for street parties or product promotions? That’s part of city life: different types of people using the streetscape for living!</p>
<p>Anyway, I can’t really figure out how in a city as large as NYC, the students can get a “reputation.” I do see that residents near NYU buildings might be influenced by the city’s building and expansion policies. And yes, parts of the Village might have more students than residents and tourists at times, but it’s a big city and the Village is a big neighborhood. I don’t live in the city, but I’ve been to the village numerous times even before my D attended the school, and I can’t say I ever felt like I was walking through a college campus!</p>
<p>I think that NYU students tend to make the geography feel like their own, while the rest of us passing through, think of it as NYC.</p>
<p>I just saw that OP was asking students. Well, I’m a parent of one.</p>
<p>I’m ok with professional filmmakers blocking off streets to film, provided they filled out the proper paper work. My opinion is that if a professional is doing it, they’re probably producing something worthwhile, something that many people will enjoy. That cannot be said about amateurs, they may be the next James Cameron, they may also be working at Burger King two years later. An amateur is, in all likelihood, making something that will be viewed by a professor and their classmates, and maybe a few other people, and that’s it. A professional is making something that will be viewed by thousands or millions of people. That’s the difference. I believe that a filmmaker has to earn their stripes before they have the right to do things like blocking off city streets. I feel the same way about your other examples. If it’s something that would be worthwhile for a large amount of people then yes I think it’s ok, otherwise I don’t.</p>
<p>As for the reputation, it’s not a huge deal. New Yorkers aren’t going to despise you because you go to NYU. That being said, there’s definitely a bit of a stigma to it. People do tend to group NYU students together as spoiled and whiny, I’m not saying it’s true, I’m saying it’s a reputation the school has, for whatever reason, developed. I’d guess it’s because a small percentage of the school actually is like that, they just happen to be the loudest. That’s how a school gets any reputation, whatever group is the loudest and most prominent ends up being the group that represents the school good or bad.</p>