(New York Daily News) — Swizz Beatz is a jack-of-all-trades: colorful rapper, producer for the likes of Kanye West and Jay-Z, designer for brands such as Aston Martin and Christian Louboutin. He’s also Mr. Alicia Keys. But to NYU students, he’s a dreammaker. The 32-year-old hip-hop veteran — who was just nominated for three Grammys last week — was recently named a […]
(Wall Street Journal) — Is Greenwich Village big enough for both a rapidly expanding New York University and the tens of thousands of non-students who call the iconic neighborhood home? In a provocative feature story released Monday, New York magazine looks at the entrenched battle lines over the university’s ambitions to add some six million […]
(WSJ) — The Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Columbia University and the city plan to open a new lab that will aim to stimulate the local media industry, city officials said Monday. The NYC Media Lab is the latest of several steps by the Bloomberg administration to boost the city’s traditional and digital media sectors. […]