Is a new wave of student housing bad for the East Village?

Hundreds of new students will soon move in to the already rowdy neighborhood

A rendering of the 605 East 9th Street dorm project
A rendering of the 605 East 9th Street dorm project

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From Luxury Listings NYC: Once an affordable refuge for artists and poets, in recent years the East Village has become a favorite of upwardly mobile young professionals and the craft cocktail crowd. But now the neighborhood of Kenneth Koch, Frank O’Hara and Allen Ginsberg is evolving, yet again, with the arrival of more college dormitories. [more]