Chris Brennan / September 9, 2012 5:57 pm
Christopher Brennan/CPR As another school year begins, the confrontation between neighborhood members and Columbia University over the ongoing Manhattanville expansion continues unabated, seeking to bring in more fresh faces to its respective sides. This Sunday the Coalition to Preserve Community held a walking tour up towards the site of the current Manhattanville construction. The tour was led by co-founder of the coalition and Columbia Colle...
Mounir Ennenbach / May 10, 2013 4:48 pm
...acing the Atlantic Yards has resonances throughout the city. Just a few blocks from my room here at Columbia, the university is engaged in a bitter legal battle with residents and businesses in the future site of the expanded Manhattanville campus. This issue has polarized residents, students, and citizens. Do we move forward, or do we hold on to the past? The Bloomberg administration has been actively supporting development projects, but with ma...
Yoni Golijov / August 28, 2012 8:01 am
...ing in a community and a city that isn’t segregated by race or income, we have the power to win major victories, not for Harlemites, but with Harlemites, for all of us. We can hold Columbia administrators accountable to their Manhattanville expansion promises of 5,000 good jobs for Harlemites. We can build more community relationships among students and Harlemites through projects like Grant Gardens, a vegetable garden at the Grant Houses created...
Andrew Hamilton / March 18, 2010 6:35 am
...t to his death out of the 15th-story window. That element of surrealism would foreshadow some of my sociological experiences in the new building. I live in 3333 Broadway, a massive, 1,193-apartment building towering over the Manhattanville/Hamilton Heights neighborhood of West Harlem. It comprises its own U.S. census tract with over 4,000 residents, and the neighborhood—bustling, safe, and convenient to transportation—is booming; in the last two...
CPR / March 17, 2012 10:52 am
...ia Political Review sat down with Williams to discuss Columbia, its relationship with the surrounding area and community, and how his election would be of particular interest to students. Columbia Political Review: Columbia’s Manhattanville expansion is a 50-year undertaking that will certainly have effects on the local Harlem community. How can the university ensure that it serves to enhance the community while simultaneously benefitting from it...
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