'The Village is rapidly disappearing. I don't believe it's NYU's prerogative to destroy it,' said the Oscar-nominated screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan, one of dozens of Greenwich Village actors, artists, and writers aligned with a group of more than 400 NYU faculty members to protest NYU's ambitious expansion plan.
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