Our faculty are in the news, whether as columnists or as experts for journalists. Here are some of the best clips from Prof. Mitchell Moss this past week:

• “Using the Olympics to Stimulate Urban Growth” via Huffington Post
• “A Battle for New York: Why City Needs the NYU Expansion” via the New York Post
• “NYC to Decide on Controversial NYU Growth Plan” via CBS
• “City Council Committees Approve NYU Expansion Plan” via NY1
• “Rise in Crime Could Push Stop-and-Frisk Off the 2013 Agenda” via Capital New York
• “NYC to Decide on Controversial NYU Growth Plan” via Businessweek

Professor Moss is the director at NYU Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management and the Henry Hart Rice Professor of Urban Policy and Planning. He also has an affinity for the old man in Disney’s UP. We aren’t sure why.

Here a UCLA professor recaps the debate between NYU Wagner Professor Mitchell Moss and NYC celebrity Matthew Broderick on NYU 2031 expansion. Both testified at the recent New York City Council public hearing. Their verbal boxing also was covered in the Gothamist and the New York Times.

“This is not the pristine Village of Sarah Jessica Parker, of ‘Sex and the City,’ of Matthew Broderick,” said Professor Moss at the NYC Council hearing. “This is the future of New York, and we have to build for the future.”

villagevoice:The cover for this week’s issue, featuring the 100 Most Powerless New Yorkers.