NYU has been renovating a building on Washington Square North for quite some time now. It has been a fairly major overhaul, including inserting windows into concrete walls where there previously were none. Why do I know this? Because the construction wakes me up. All the time. I can't really complain, because it's around the time I should be getting up anyway (except for Saturdays — why are they working on Saturdays?!?). That said, they leave all the lights on in the building every single night and the light shines right through the brand new windows directly into mine, which is rather irritating. I walked over this morning to see if there was actually some sort of practical reason that they left the lights on — as far as I'm concerned, by shutting them off, they're probably saving NYU money and improving their relationship with their neighbors, namely me. The dude I spoke to said he'd pass along my message to the right person. We shall see — hoping for a no-lights-in-my-window kind of night tonight.
*Name that tune, anyone?