On Saturday night at the Columbia Club on West 43rd Street–really just a warren carved out of the Princeton Club, but who’s keeping score?–Arianna Huffington was making a lot of promises. The keynote speaker of the Columbia Daily Spectator Awards Dinner, and newly minted face of AOL, addressed a room of college journalists and recent Read More
Universities are poised to overtake the church as the city’s biggest private landlord, The Observer‘s Laura Kusisto reports in this week’s print edition.
While we were tracking down the juicy details for the story, Columbia shared some eye-popping new renderings of the new Jerome L. Greene Science Center at the school’s Manhattanville campus–part of Read More
The Application Development Initiative at Columbia has invited VCs and startups from the New York tech scene to host talks for DevFest 2011, a week-long series of hackathons and lectures for student developers, culminating in demos.
The event kicked off Saturday with pitches, burritos and a hackathon. Companies hosting workshops this week include Aviary, Read More
Chalk another one up for Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
Just a week after the firm unveiled its new designs for the Broad Foundation in LA, Columbia has just announced that the university has selected DS+R to design two new buildings at its new 17-acre Manhattanville campus. Both buildings will be an outpost of the Read More
Add Megan McArdle to the (rather short) list of people outraged by the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday not to hear the eminent domain case surrounding Columbia’s planned Manhattanville campus in West Harlem. On her blog over at The Atlantic, McArdle has some stern words for New York State and the Supreme Court: Read More
Nick Sprayregen knew the chances were slim that the Supreme Court would hear his case against the state and, by extension Columbia University, yet still, the owner of Tuck-It-Away self-storage held out hope.
“It was a shocking decision, even with the chance of the court taking the case being 1 percent,” Sprayregen told The Observer Read More
Morningside Heights is a little less high this week. On Tuesday, police busted a five-person drug cartel at Columbia University, a student-run bonanza of coke, weed and acid that had brought in $11,000 for the kids. The undercover effort was dubbed “Operation Ivy League.”
Now, the would-be kingpins have started to speak, and not Read More
“Am I the only one who doesn’t take mints from anyone, even friends, because I’m terrified someone has laced it with LSD?” writes outrageousnb, the first commenter on the New York Times‘ City Room post about the massive $11,000 drug sting that claimed five Columbia students this morning. “This happened to me once Read More
It’s been a pretty good month for Nick Sprayregen.
On Dec. 3, the owner of a set of warehouses in the footprint of Columbia University’s planned West Harlem expansion, with his lawyer, Norman Siegel, were handed a highly unexpected victory in a suit that challenged the use of eminent domain for the project.
And Read More
