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Rachel Signer

The New School in Exile, Revisited

American Politics
26 December 2011

The New School needed to improve its financial situation and its status, and it was going to do it, like any New York institution, through real estate. They were going to tear down one of their old buildings and replace it with a state-of-the-art gleaming sixteen-story tower, home to studios for designers and artists and laboratories (for whom, no one could tell you). More…