The annual VU2006 panel discussion was held at NYU Law School's Greenberg Lounge last week.

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Caption: The annual VU2006 panel discussion was held at NYU Law School's Greenberg Lounge last week. The subject of the panel discussion was "Nine Million Stories in the City: The Housing Implications of Population Growth Over the Next Decade." The commercial real estate portion of VU2006 will be held tomorrow (Thursday) and will be moderated by Steven Spinola, president of REBNY. The subject will be Downtown Commercial Development. Pictured back row, l-r: Doug Latino, group director, advertising, The New York Times, which sponsored the event; Sam Roberts, New York Times; Ian Schrager, chairman and chief executive officer, Ian Schrager Company; Lloyd Backus, New York Times. Front rown, l-r: Richard Barth, executive director, Department of City Planning; Eileen Spinola, senior vice president, Real Estate Board of New York; Trish Hall, New York Times; Arthur Zeckendorf, owner and co-chairman, Terra Holdings, LLC; Joe Moinian, chief executive officer, The Moinian Group; Vicki Been, Elihu Root Professor of Law, New York University School of Law.