New York University, or NYU, is a private not-for-profit university located in an urban campus in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of downtown Manhattan. It has a population of 50,000 students and 17,000 employees. The university is in the midst of an expansion of its campus, a plan called NYU 2031 that includes construction of 4 buildings on university-owned land south of Washington Square Park. As of September 2015, the area under development was bounded by LaGuardia Place, Mercer Street, West Houston Street, and West Third Street,  and was home to the seven-building Washington Square Village and the Silver Towers apartment complexes. The NYU 2031 expansion, which would add 2 million square feet to NYUs campus, has been scaled back in response to opposition by local activists and university staff, who said development threatened the sunnier, low-rise nature of the Village.