I’m confused.. isn’t 726 Broadway the health center?

@Rachel You are correct, the Tisch building is the one with the coffee kiosk. I guess we’ll be getting a new one! Also LOL you would know the exact address of the health center.

so just to clarify there’s going to be a 3rd Think outpost, in addition to the ones already on bowery & mercer? Isn’t that a bit excessive?

@Michael Maybe, but considering how impossible it always is to find a seat at the one on Mercer, and the millions of Starbuckses that caffeinate our campus, three Thinks isn’t really that many.

726 Broadyway is the Student Health Center but only on the 3rd and 4th floors. Considering NYU bought the building a little while ago, I’d assume they’re going to revamp the 1st and 2nd floor and make that the new bookstore.

Phillip should be the new John Beckman.

hi Phil, hi Jess, (anyone on this threat I don’t actually know?)

I think it’s a great idea, the old bookstore was kind of grey and overly-cramped. no time for intellectual conversations between aisles 19 and 20 over the stacks of massive textbooks on every corner. I don’t know if bringing in Think! Coffee will help, nor if it will change the seemingly NYU tradition of buying a book 10mins before class, but honestly – I hope it does.

Also, just a brief one second response to the WSN aricle,
“Some students expressed concern about the new location.’ Broadway is a little far away’ .” 

Really? It’s less than two blocks. I say large cappuccino and French 101 to go, please!

From the old John Beckman — the new bookstore will have space for readings and talks by authors; the old one didn’t. The new bookstore will have space where students and other book-buyers can sit down and look through a book; the old one didn’t. The new bookstore will have a cafe (and we specifically chose a local coffee purveyor); the old one didn’t. The new bookstore is on a major avenue, so it will offer a larger selection of general interest books because there will likely be more non-NYU walk-in traffic. We didn’t think the old bookstore was “unhip,” but it seemed like an improvement for a university bookstore to include space that enabled people to browse, comfortably look at books, and maybe talk about the ideas they contain. We talked about with students, faculty and staff reps, and community group reps, and their responses were positive.

@The Real John Beckman: Obvious snark in this post aside, I think most students, including me, would agree that having more coffee and study places is definitely a good idea!

Take it from someone who works there, the space is desperately needed. NYU is really busting at its seams with its steady increase of students and the bookstore certainly cannot accommodate the amount of textbooks it needs to sell or the amount of people who shop there. Tired of wrapping around random corners and aisles because the store has no space to form a proper line? Believe me, we’re tired of spending hours trying to control it.

Plus the textbooks will be on the first floor, making shopping incredibly simpler because the layout of the store serves little function. The logic behind placing a staircase behind half-walls in the center of the store is lost on me. If I got a dollar for every time someone asked me how to get downstairs, I wouldn’t need the part-time job.

I’m excited for the move. While I never heard the phrase “intellectual character and vitality” being thrown around, there is talk of expanding the trade department to cater for a broader consumer base beyond NYU professors.