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  Stuyvesant, New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Town of Stuyvesant was established in 1823 from the Town of Kinderhook.
The west town line, marked by the Hudson River is the border of Greene County, and the north town line is the border of Rensselaer County.
In the town the population was spread out with 25.8% under the age of 18, 6.6% from 18 to 24, 28.4% from 25 to 44, 26.7% from 45 to 64, and 12.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stuyvesant,_New_York   (564 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Stuyvesant Town, which opened in 1947, stretches from 14th Street to 20th Street, from First Avenue to Avenue C and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive.
One characteristic of Stuyvesant Town is its military ambiance.
Although the first fl family was admitted to Stuyvesant Town in 1950, it took the dedication of residents through lawsuits in the 1960's to force management to end its discriminatory policies.
www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/oped/town.shtml   (2388 words)

  
 Stuyvesant Town - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stuyvesant Town, as well as the adjacent Peter Cooper Village, is a large residential development on the East Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
Today, Stuyvesant Town is a sprawling collection of red brick apartment buildings with typical housing project-style architecture stretching from First Avenue to Avenue C, between 14th and 20th Streets.
When the $50,000,000 Stuyvesant Town plan was approved by the City Planning Commission on May 20, 1943 by a five to one vote, discrimination against African-Americans was already a significant topic of debate.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stuyvesant_Town   (2080 words)

  
 Corinne Demas - Eleven Stories High
Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948--68 is a memoir of my middle class New York childhood, and the particular perceptions of a girl growing up in a housing project where the apartments and buildings are identical and you're prohibited from walking on the grass.
For these are scenes from a childhood that was free of hardship, a childhood that was privileged, and--dare I say it?--relatively happy, and a portrait of a place, Stuyvesant Town, that was a comfortable, middle-class community, a utopia of the Fifties.
Stuyvesant Town, with its unexpected charm is as strong a character as any I've encountered in personal narrative.
www.corinnedemas.com /books/eleven.htm   (990 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - Stuyvesant Town's Threat to Our Liberties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
...It is Stuyvesant Town the precedent, rather than Stuyvesant Town the project, that looms so large as a threat to the American way of life...
...THE Stuyvesant Town "barony" consists of Eighteen square city blocks and lies in the heart of New York City's East Side facing the East River between 14th and zoth streets...
Stuyvesant Town in its role as chosen instrument for this public purpose may not escape the obligations that accompany the privileges...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V8I5P26-1.htm   (4392 words)

  
 Town of Stuyvesant, NY - History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Stuyvesant is in the northwest corner of Columbia County, bordered on the north by Rensselaer County, the east by the Town of Kinderhook, the south by Stockport and the west by the Hudson River.
A second principal waterway in the town is the Kinderhook Creek, with its two-step natural waterfall at Stuyvesant Falls.
Stuyvesant had as many as four large icehouses along its more than nine miles of shoreline.
stuyvesant.berk.com /history.htm   (507 words)

  
 NYU > Residential Education > Residence Halls > Stuyvesant Town > Overview
Stuyvesant town is a diverse community of graduate students at NYU with 324 students and 6 Resident Assistants.
Located in the Stuyvesant Town complex, residents live within the beautiful atmosphere of the complex while also enjoying close proximity to the East Village.
This year, Stuyvesant Town is part of a larger graduate residence hall community including Washington Square Village and 14 Washington Place.
www.nyu.edu /residential.education/residence.halls/stuyvesant.town   (274 words)

  
 Chicken Town
Town Superintendent Valerie Bertram (R) told the more than 100 people who packed the town hall Thursday evening, February 9, that in the month since the law was passed she has heard from a lot of people in the community who "were upset and concerned."
Town Code Enforcement Officer Gerald Ennis had previously voiced support for the law, alleging it was necessary to force an Eichybush resident, Martin Roby, to contain his chickens.
One Stuyvesant resident suggested that the neighbors terrorized by the marauding chickens ought to shoot a few of them (the chickens, not the neighbors) as an object lesson to the owner of the birds.
www.redhookconcerns.com /FYI/stuy_chicken.html   (5060 words)

  
 Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Friedman has lived first in Stuyvesant Town, and then in nearby Peter Cooper Village, since 1948 when her husband returned from World War II and they availed themselves of the new rent-stabilized housing available to veterans.
Terry Mizrahi, a 26-year resident of Stuyvesant Town and professor at Hunter College School of Social Work, said that the diversity in the buildings has always helped her embrace her Jewish identity as well.
Rabbi Sebert, who said that people call their neighbors to form a minyan when he goes to Stuyvesant Town for shivas, said he is not concerned that people will be forced out of their apartments.
www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=12991   (1808 words)

  
 Town of Stuyvesant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In 1994, the Town of Stuyvesant, located in Columbia County, New York, was in the process of updating its Comprehensive Plan.
The relationship of the Town's resources and its current zoning ordinance was analyzed in Phase 3.
Phase 4, the Alternatives Analysis Phase, was completed by both the Town and a study team from the University at Albany.
www.albany.edu /gp/facilities/plnstd/studio/studio1.htm   (257 words)

  
 Stuyvesant Town, NYC: Neighborhood Profile -- NY Bits
Stuyvesant Town covers the area east of First Avenue, between 14th and 23rd street.
Stuyvesant Town is a bit of an anomaly as a neighborhood.
However, it's even more of a stretch to consider Stuyvesant Town part of Gramercy Park, so we eventually conceded and declared it a neighborhood for the purposes of this site.
www.nybits.com /manhattan/stuyvesant_town   (117 words)

  
 Town of Stuyvesant, NY
Town of Stuyvesant, NY as the intrepid Henry Hudson made his way up the river that now bears his name, he happened upon an area of pristine beauty and economic promise.
Investigating further, Hudson - always a good judge of character - determined that the natives were friendly and welcoming.
Town of Stuyvesant Zoning Map is now online...
www.stuyvesantny.us /index.htm   (238 words)

  
 scary squirrel world - squirrel gangs of new york: Stuyvesant Squirrel Posse
Stuyvesant Town, (New advertising slogan: A park runs through it - hmmm) is home to hundreds of well fed, aggressive, mind-controlling nut bandits - in the heart of new york city - Black skwerl gangs and Grey skwerl gangs of new york.
They clearly move in packs, and many of them are quite expert at human-mind-control, and have convinced their human hosts to grovel before them with bags of nuts.
The company's current strategy is to upgrade the units in Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, the 11,250-apartment, 110-building rental complexes that run from East 14th Street to 23rd Street as they become vacant.
www.scarysquirrel.org /vacation/newyork   (897 words)

  
 Sold! NYC apartments go for $5.4 billion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town apartment complex is seen Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2006 in New York.
But the 25,000-person community of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village is unusual: residents stay for decades, children play outside, friends gather on park benches.
"We don't want Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village to be a place of pied-a-terres over the long term, a luxury gated community, one which is only accessible to the richest New Yorkers," said City Councilman Daniel Garodnick, a resident who was part of the proposed offer.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /business/1310AP_Apartment_Complex_Sale.html   (665 words)

  
 Peter Cooper/Stuyvesant Town
A retired New York City Police Detective who has lived in Stuyvesant Town for nearly 15 years, Dennis Martin has spent much of that time on the run in dozens of marathons around the world...
The Stuy Town Chess Club was founded in 1992 and is an affiliate of the United States Chess Federation.
You may have spotted Stuyvesant Town residents, Minna and Jay walking around the Oval each morning.
www.pcvst.com /comm.asp   (194 words)

  
 Stuyvesant Town Apartment Ratings, Reviews, Map, Rents, and other New York apartments for rent from ApartmentRatings.com
Stuy Town is a nice place to live and even better if you have a stabilized apt, but the market rate apts are totally not worth the ridiculous rents.
I'm fortunate in that I have a rent stabilized one bedroom apartment for less than $1200 a month, which includes gas and electricity (I have two air conditioners).
Stuyvesant Town is an apartment community located in New York, NY.
www.apartmentratings.com /rate/NY-New-York-Stuyvesant-Town.html   (227 words)

  
 A Surprise Lurks at Stuyvesant Town - Luxury Rentals - July 6, 2006 - The New York Sun
No one doubts the legality of MetLife's decision to convert Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town to market-rate housing, but many public officials and housing advocates are dismayed.
It may be that the very ordinariness of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village allayed the suspicions of normally alert housing advocates that the owners would take these developments out of rent stabilization.
Room sizes were adequate in Stuyvesant Town and generous in Peter Cooper Village.
www.nysun.com /article/35516   (751 words)

  
 Stuyvesant Park Neighborhood Association
The highlight of the year is the Stuyvesant Park Festival, held annually in the spring.
SPNA is well known in city and state government agencies; indeed we were officially recognized by one of them, the city’s Landmarks Preservations Commission, when it designated the Stuyvesant Square Historic District in 1975.
We enthusiastically welcome all with an interest in the Stuyvesant Square Neighborhood to join SPNA and to participate in our diverse activities and programs, in an area that The New York Times has called "convenient, but off the beaten path … surrounding a little-known park." We call it Manhattan’s Hidden Treasure.
www.preserve.org /stuyvesant   (353 words)

  
 Joseph Weiser, former Stuyvesant Town assemblyman
former assemblymember for the district that includes Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town, died on Sept. 17 after a long illness in his Hollywood, Fla., home at the age of 92.
A resident of the Peter Cooper/ Stuyvesant Town complex, he embodied the neighborhood for many of his neighbors.
Written permission of the publisher must be obtainedbefore any of the contents of this newspaper, in whole or in part, can be reproduced or redistributed.
www.thevillager.com /villager_77/josephweiserformer.html   (303 words)

  
 Stuyvesant Town tenants wary of N.Y.U. influx
Though their suspicions remain vague and unsubstantiated, some longtime tenants have been distrustful of management moves since owner Metropolitan Life Insurance Company turned property management of Stuyvesant Town and its more upscale neighbor, Peter Cooper Village, over to Insignia ESG in April 2001.
As part of Met Life’s long-term goal of maximizing stakeholder value, IESG embarked on a $100 million renovation project to upgrade the 80-acre swath of 110 redbrick apartment buildings that urban critic Lewis Mumford disdained as “the architecture of the Police State” when it opened in 1947.
Stacey Delich Gould, a second-year N.Y.U. law student, moved to Stuyvesant Town in August with her husband, a software engineer.
www.thevillager.com /villager_27/stuyvesanttown.html   (773 words)

  
 keyetv.com - MetLife Sells Stuyvesant Town For $5.4B   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The complex was built in the late 1940s as housing for returning World War II veterans, and the vast majority of the units are rent-stabilized, meaning the tenants pay below market value.
Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant Town has been called the last bastion of middle-class housing in the super-charged real estate market of Manhattan.
A child helps feed the pigeons outside of Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan, the 80-acre property sold to Tishman Speyer for $5.4 billion.
keyetv.com /business/finance_story_290144809.html   (508 words)

  
 Stuyvesant Town Personal Injury Lawyer- Free Legal Services in Manhattan, NY
Stuyvesant Town Personal Injury Lawyer- Free Legal Services in Manhattan, NY
A nationally-recognized personal injury law firm, Weitz and Luxenberg is committed to helping clients win cases, get the compensation to which they’re entitled and get on with their lives.
The Lawyers and Attorneys at Weitz and Luxenberg know the people of Stuyvesant Town, and residents of Manhattan have relied on our legal expertise since 1986.
www.weitzlux.com /legalservices/stuyvesanttown/manhattan_29113.html   (472 words)

  
 Gothamist: Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Sale Questions (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
As news of what could be the biggest real estate deal in history spread, residents of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village - and the rest of New York City - wondered what this could mean for the real estate market.
Though selling the 110 building complex and changing over ownership of all the units would probably take years, questions about what Mayor Bloomberg will do about the city's housing policy arose, as well as what this will mean for the middle class residents who live there as a large swath of housing is taken away.
To a guy who lived in Stuyvesant Town for three years in the late 1970s, it's a wonder the place has become the It Girl of residential offerings.
www.gothamist.com.cob-web.org:8888 /archives/2006/08/31/_for_sale_sign.php   (1729 words)

  
 Opinion of Stuyvesant Town posted 1/18/2006: Stuyvesant Town: An Oasis in Manhattan
Apartments >> New York >> New York >> Stuyvesant Town >> Stuyvesant Town: An Oasis in Manhattan
Many NYU graduate students live here now as Stuyvesant Town has an arrangement with NYU.
Anyway, in summary, this is a great place to live - the best of small town America in Manhattan.
www.apartmentratings.com /rate/NY-New-York-Stuyvesant-Town-402091.html   (383 words)

  
 Gotham Gazette -- Housing
The rent hikes were one percentage point higher than the three and give percent proposal the board had preliminarily approved.
Then, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, the owner of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, two large middle-income housing complexes in Manhattan, announced that newly vacated apartments would be removed from rent-regulation and upgraded to luxury rentals.
In Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, the 11,250 apartments currently rent for an average of $1000 per month and about 400 become vacant each year.
www.gothamgazette.com /housing/jul.01.shtml   (1588 words)

  
 Rent Hikes at Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town -- Soccer Star Claudio Reyna Buys In The Cipriani Building - A ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
At Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town, big rent hikes take the new breed of tenants by surprise.
W hen Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village went free-market in 2002, the move shook the culture of those developments hard.
Sophia Cicilioni, director of leasing for Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town, appears unfazed.
www.newyorkmetro.com.cob-web.org:8888 /realestate/realestatecolumn/16100/index.html   (842 words)

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