John Sexton is the 7th most loathsome New Yorker

New York Press

7 John Sexton
University president
What’s worse than a bunch of
over-educated, privileged crybaby Felicity wannabes? Their disciplinarian daddy,
of course. John Sexton helms NYU, that beacon of Downtown real estate and
strike-busting. Sexton gave the rising princes of capitalism at the Stern School
of Business a lesson in how to break the back of underpaid workers when he
refused to negotiate with the Graduate Student Organizing Committee. The private
university grad student union’s contract had expired, and Sexton’s stonewalling
led to a November strike.
Picket lines and petitions led to cancelled
classes. Some co-eds went keg wild—in support of the strikers. The strikers
believed that they had won the day. But Sexton, the Andrew Carnegie of Academia,
wouldn’t budge instead issuing an “or else.” The union and its members claimed
Sexton’s tactic was proof of their power. The strike is ongoing, yet unlike the
Transit Workers Union walkout, NYU’s newsworthiness fizzled quickly. With a
reduced workforce, the university, whose tentacles have spread from the East to
West Village, apparently hasn’t taken over enough of Downtown Manhattan, and
is—if you can believe it—looking to expand. While the school administration
claims the undergraduate enrollment is shrinking, and therefore revenue, NYU
dorms and classrooms are sprouting like poisoned mushrooms over the two
villages. One such project has the villagers brandishing torches and pitchforks:
A 26-story dorm at the corner of Fourth Avenue and East 12th Street. That’s the
site of the soon-to-be-former 159-year-old St. Ann’s Church (the Landmarks
Commission caved into NYU and denied landmark designation). The building would
be the tallest in the East Village. If you were wondering whatever happened to
the Saint and the Palladium, the city’s two best-ever nightclubs, it’s easy:
NYU. Lower Third Avenue now looks like Upper Third Avenue, thanks to all the
dorm highrises. A recent $200 million gift, earmarked for an institute dedicated
to the research of ancient civilizations, will further pad the pockets of a
school administration that has already eaten everything around Washington
Square.

The rest of the list is problematic. Mike Piazza isn't loathsome at all, except to the extent that he's a republican. And Roger Toussaint? Please. Roger Toussaint ranked higher than Bllomberg AND Pataki is a joke.