Good Riddance, NYU: 50 Things We Will Not Miss About Our Time Here

May 15th, 2013 by Leah Clancy, John Surico, and Myles Tanzer

Fellow seniors: have you been feeling ultra nostalgic lately? Have you been belligerently screaming to your friends “I can’t believe it’s oveeeeeeeeeeeer!” every night you go out for the past five months? Are you currently scrolling through old Facebook photos of Hayden parties to arouse some sort of internal reconciliation that yes, college is over and it’s time for you to put your real-world pants on? Well, stop. Please.

Over the past four years, we, NYU Local co-EIC Myles Tanzer and Editors Leah Clancy and John Surico, have been collecting our grievances with the “community” here on Washington Square Park. Yes, of course, it’s sad that you can’t throw up on the bar at Coyote Ugly and use college as an excuse anymore. And it’s sad you won’t feel a part of the campus that you’ve called home since September of 2009. But replace despair with relief. Because there’s a lot of things we’re very, very happy to see come to an end.


[CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS] Show Us Your Final Work!

May 7th, 2013 by Leah Clancy

Hey. Hey you—how ya doin’, buddy? Looks like you’re working hard. What is that for? Your colloquium? Or have you been spending the past two months assembling chicken wing bones in the shape of your mother’s face for a conceptual art project? You memorized WHAT? All of War & Peace?… Can we see it? Read more…


Hey Seniors, Cap And Gown Measurements Are Due TODAY

April 22nd, 2013 by Leah Clancy

If you’re anything like one of us, right now you’re hungover, still in your pajamas, eating whipped cream, blissfully unaware of the “responsibilities” we still have as seniors about to graduate. From college. Forever.

TIME TO WAKE UP, BABES.

Break out your measuring tape, strip down to your skivvies, and let your nearest and dearest measure you from head to toe. Just kidding, none of that is necessary. Unless you want it to be.

So now, as one is laying on the couch, watching Bob’s Burgers via Free On Demand, thinking if it would be funny to name their firstborn child “Jeeze Louise,” making sure that they have everything in order for their impending day—and life—you really need to make sure that you get your cap and gown measurements in today. Like, damn it, just do it right now. Why are you still reading this? Just open up a new tab. And go to this website. Get out of here! Go on! Be free! We don’t want you anymore!

But if you’re still reading, you insubordinate little asshole (just kidding, we love you), here’s what you do:

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An Open Love Letter To James Franco

April 15th, 2013 by Leah Clancy

Dear James Franco,

Babe. No honey, look at us; let’s talk.

So we know we’ve sort of had a strained relationship lately. Last week, at your performance in a NYU student’s lovely production of Bird Shit, you spoke to one of  our staffers and called us “little shits” (shit was on your mind, we suppose, so it’s excusable). But, but, we thought we meant more to you than just some other student-run hyperlocal newsblog?

Here is the thing we need to let you know—we’ve never stopped caring for you. We’re sure you think we’re a bunch of little assholes—the same ones back in ’09-’10 that would approach you in the NYU Starbucks and beg you for a photo when all you were trying to do was order a venti Red Eye just after you had hopped off your red eye from L.A. 45 minutes earlier after delivering an hour-long lecture on screenwriting, and then stopping over in New Haven to drop off a 60-page paper entitled “The Poetry of Your Own: The Recreation of the Self in One’s Screenplay: I Can Write My Own Roles: I Am Talented.”

Read more…


How To Trick Yourself Into Thinking Spring Has Arrived

April 4th, 2013 by Ken Greller and Leah Clancy

As you all probably know, it’s technically been spring since last Wednesday. Unfortunately, our spring break (for those of us who stayed in New York/on the east coast) felt more like an arctic adventure. If you’re anything like me, the sliiiight signs of sun/potential for temperatures in the upper 40s makes you want to go outside without a coat and skip down the street non-suggestively enjoying a popsicle.

SO, here are some creative ways to make the most of this (somewhat) pleasant weather, even if our fingers are still numbing a bit if we text while walking (which you shouldn’t do, guys).

John Sexton Announces 1831 Fund Contribution

March 4th, 2013 by Alexander Seedman and Leah Clancy

On Saturday, NYU President John Sexton announced he would match every dollar donated to the 1831 Fund, the scholarship program in which donations of at least $18.31 (representing 1831, NYU’s inaugural year) are awarded to incoming freshmen and transfer students.

In 2011, the 1831 Fund received donations from 275 students. This past year’s recipients received over $85,000 in combined scholarship funds from 550 students, doubling the previous year’s recipients.

So far, 1831 Fund has reached 169 donors for a total of $3,314.00. By August 31, the program hopes to raise at least $15,000 from 1,100 students to double their support from last year. The goal amount is more likely to be reached considering John Sexton’s & Trustee Dale Hemmerdinger’s generous contributions, but the number of students willing to donate to their peers remains to be seen. Read more…


[PHOTOS] We Made NYU’s DIY “Sports Drink” And It Could Use Some Improvement

February 27th, 2013 by Ashley D'Arcy and Leah Clancy

NYU’s Student Health Center has invaded the privacy of Bobst bathroom stalls as of late with a poster encouraging students to “become and stay healthy.” Their suggestion for achieving this? A totally repulsive-sounding recipe for a “homemade sports drink.”

We felt it was our duty at NYU Local to try this concoction and report back before any of you brought it along to yoga with you and something disastrous took place.

Here goes nothing. Read more…


Love Makes You Do Crazy Things: Weird Ways To Celebrate Valentine’s Day

February 14th, 2013 by Leah Clancy

First was finals. Now it’s Valentine’s Day. And if you’re like me, you’re alarmingly alone for the 21st time on February the 14th. Prove how single you are with these tips below:

Give your crush a box of Stoffer’s chocolates. But rearrange all of the chocolates so that they don’t match up with the selection guide. Better yet, replace them all with singular raisinettes. Or things that you find in couch cushions.

Take red rose petals and scatter them on the ground so that they form a path. Lead the path all around the house so that your friend, who you have surprised and blindfolded, has to travel through every room. Finally, lead the petals out onto the fire escape. Once they climb out, be ready at the bottom on the sidewalk with the NYPD Crisis Management Team, yelling, “Don’t jump, I love you” through a bullhorn.

Take a relaxing bubble bath with unlit candles and no water. Just you and the bubbles. In the baked goods aisle of a grocery store. Read more…


[UPDATED] Water Main Breaks In Flatiron District, Affects Parts of NYU Community

February 1st, 2013 by Leah Clancy and Julia Berke

NoPo has now become NoWa.

If one of the problems with Hurricane Sandy was that there was too much water in Downtown Manhattan, a broken water main in the Flatiron district has now made it an issue that there’s now not enough. CBSNewYork is reporting that a 36-inch pipe from 1915 has broken at 23rd St. and Broadway earlier this morning, sending water gushing onto surrounding sidewalks and into the 23rd Street Subway stop, but halting the flow into parts of the downtown area.

NYU officials (not Jules R. Martin, strangely enough) have already sent out a university-wide email stating that the disruption “is having an impact on many NYU facilities,” and that facility managers are evaluating buildings to see what has been affected.  Read more…


Albert’s Having A Bad First Day, How To Find Your Classes Without It

January 28th, 2013 by Myles Tanzer and Leah Clancy

The lack of community, insanely high costs, and non-existent campus atmosphere all don’t hold a candle to Albert, which is without a doubt the worst part of going to NYU. Well it seems that Albert is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad first day back to school. It’s been offline for most of the morning which has surely left a few students wandering around without a clue of where any of their classes are.

NYU ITS is currently trying to fix the problem and has been providing live updates throughout the morning. They’ve also just posted a listing of every class happening today.

But how do you find your classes if the course listings are down? You’re going to have to do things the old fashioned way and pick up the damn phone. Read more…


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