Cooper Union

tuition-free (until 2014) Architecture/Engineering School university (College Education) in my East Village/NYC neighborhood

owns the property beneath the Chrysler Building, and pays no Property Tax on it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_Union

http://www.cooper.edu

planned new development for its campus fought by the "Coalition to Save the East Village"

• 9-floor academic building at 6thSt/3rdAve designed by Thom Mayne

• 20-floor office building (biomedical research?), which will require demolishing the existing 10-story Engineering Building which is already there

• 20-floor residential (not for students, for income) building replacing parking lot

  • was going to be an Ian Schrager hotel designed by Rem Koolhaas

  • 2004-06-04-CooperAstorPlanCriticism

When Cooper's Foundation Building was constructed in 1858 it was the tallest building in New York City. Although elevators had not yet been invented, Peter Cooper predicted their arrival, and included round elevator shafts in the building.

• Abraham Lincoln spoke there in 1860.