NYU Expansion Plan Opponents Win Top State Court Hearing

Opponents of New York University’s $6 billion expansion plan in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village won a hearing before the state’s highest court in their bid to block the proposal.

The Court of Appeals in Albany on Tuesday agreed to hear arguments in the case after the opponents sought a review of a lower-court ruling from October that allowed the expansion to proceed. That decision found that the city’s approval of the plan was appropriate because the disputed land isn’t park property and doesn’t require consent from the New York Legislature.