Of colonizing slivers and voracious appetites

The Brooklyn Paper is also picking up the Livingston Street "dorm" story:

New York University is coming to Brooklyn — and so is its voracious appetite for real estate.

The ever-growing private institution, based in Greenwich Village, is opening its first non- Manhattan residence in a Brooklyn Heights apartment tower, and is negotiating what it described as a “merger” with Downtown Brooklyn-based Polytechnic University.

One hundred and fifteen graduate students will move this month into the “sliver building” at 67 Livingston St., between Clinton and Court streets, which is named for the way its narrow 26-floors are wedged between wider buildings on the street. Since the late 1980s, the tower’s 76 units served as a dormitory for the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. In March, a private investor bought it for $18.6 million and then leased it to NYU.