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You mean there’s someone else screwing over West Harlem too?
PrezBo fears for his life, sucks his thumb at night.
Barnard has no money or teachers, but SIPA goes on carving?
Columbia accepts corporate sponsorship, billboards will go up on low steps.
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@is rudi batzell's article an april fool’s joke? could anyone really be that moralizing?
@Columbia still blamed Actually some people do blame Columbia for the problems at 3333 Broadway.
http://www.stopcolumbia.org/content/view/53/65/
The argument is basically: since Columbia is “gentrifying” (i.e.: improving) the neighborhood landlords have begun “renovating vacant units.” These nicer apartments fetch higher rents forcing some tenants out, ergo Columbia is evil.
@Alum Those folks believe the owners of 3333 left the Mitchell-Lama program in response to Columbia’s plans to build in Manhattanville. Supposedly, the plan is to lure CU-affiliated tenants who can pay more rent. They overlook the facts that (1) most owners opt out of Mitchell-Lama as soon as their commitment to the program ends; and (2) that this is precisely what the owners of 3333 did.
If 3333 really wanted to replace its tenants with CU people, it would wait until at least some of the Manhattanville campus was up and running. That is still about six years away. It was eight or nine years away when the owners opted out. Stopcolumbia’s hypothesis just doesn’t jibe with the evidence.
@ALERT Whole Foods to open on 97th and Columbus!! :)
http://newyork.seriouseats.com/2009/04/new-whole-foods-opening-upper-west-side-nyc-columbus.html
@EE! YES!
@8 °C, Cloudy Hilarious.
@And Gmail now has autopilot. Fantastic.
@C'10 how is columbia screwing west harlem??? people who say this are clearly ignorant of the facts.
@if you're going to have an april fool’s joke, at least make sure its not a dead link.
@Happy April! Yeah, Bwog, you might want to fix that. . .
Better April Foolery on the internet today include
Google (linked from main page)
http://cadiesingularity.blogspot.com/
and Vassar
http://www.vassar.edu
Facebook has added some sort of human verification for posts and status updates that may be April-Fools-related but likely is not.