Ar_home_b_search
 



columbia university: Wordless Wednesday: The Busker of Morningside Heights - 07/20/11 11:02 AM
 
Morningside Heights is the academic quarter of New York City. It stretches irregularly from north of 96th Street to about 125th Street between Morningside Park and Riverside Park on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Morningside Heights is home to Columbia University, Barnard College, Union Theological Seminary, Jewish Theological Seminary, Bank St. College of Education and Manhattan School of Music.
Nick Moyer, the Busker of Morningside Heights can be seen on accordian, trumpet and baking dish near Columbia University at 103rd street subway station.

… (7 comments)

columbia university: Supreme Court OK's Eminent Domain Use for Columbia University - 12/15/10 12:13 AM

 
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from neighborhood businesses paving the way for Columbia University to expand it's campus into the Manhattanville section of West Harlem.
Owners filed a lawsuit challenging the Empire State Development Corporation's plan to use eminent domain to force them out so the university could expand.
The 17-acre site, in the Manhattanville section of West Harlem, is less than a mile from Columbia’s main campus in Manhattan's Morningside Heights neighborhood. It will add more than 6.8 million square feet to the university, including a new business school and science facilities.
The plan was … (22 comments)

columbia university: NY High Court Overturns Ruling: OK's Columbia U's Eminent Domain Use - 06/27/10 12:45 PM

 


Back in December I reported that the New York State Supreme Court awarded two small businesses a big victory over Columbia University, ruling that property owners can't be forced to give up land the school needs for an expansion project.
The court ruled that the Empire State Development Corporation a state agency tried to stack the deck in Columbia’s favor and called the project a "Scheme". The court said that NY state "colluded" with Columbia to produce the very conditions that would then allow ESDC to seize property. The court ruling said "taking the properties to benefit … (9 comments)

columbia university: NY Court Rules Columbia University Eminent Domain Use Unconstitutional - 12/05/09 11:35 AM



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Current view of 131st St. & Broadway                                         Sketch of Columbia's proposed new buildings 
Last year I wrote that a NY state agency, the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) paved the way for Columbia University to use Eminent Domain to expand it's campus to the Manhattanville industrial West Harlem neighborhod.
The state agency declared the 17-acre expansion footprint as blighted, a necessary step before using eminent domain. Two reports characterized the area by aging, poorly maintained and functionally obsolete industrial buildings, with little indication of recent reinvestment to revive their generally deteriorated … (12 comments)

columbia university: NY State Approves Columbia University Expansion: Eminent Domain - 07/18/08 08:54 PM
 
Rendering of Columbia campus at 131st Street & Broadway
Empire State Development Corporation has adopted the Columbia University General Project Plan and authorized a public hearing for the university's proposed West Harlem expansion.The state agency declared the 17-acre expansion footprint as blighted, a necessary step before using eminent domain. Two reports characterized the area by aging, poorly maintained and functionally obsolete industrial buildings, with little indication of recent reinvestment to revive their generally deteriorated conditions.The $6.28 billion project, which is to be funded entirely by the university, will add up to 6.8 million square feet of new, state-of-the-art facilities in … (2 comments)

columbia university: Columbia University, NYU; Apartment Buildings - Real Estate Empires - 08/27/07 11:53 AM
Summer is almost over as evidenced yesterday by the crowds of NYU students in Greenwich Village. With a little help from their parents they moved into dorms and apartments in Greenwich Village.  Yesterday was NYU "Move -in Day." 
A similar scenario takes place in Morningside Heights as Columbia University students begin moving in to their dorms and luxury apartments that Columbia owns.
Both NYU and Columbia have been building real estate empires in their respective Manhattan neighborhoods. Both private non profit institutions have real estate holdings worth more than half a billion dollars. Columbia ownes more than 7,000 apartments and it's real … (10 comments)

 
File_hall_mitchell_04_r_2_ Rainmaker_large

Mitchell Hall NYC Real Estate Broker

Manhattan, NY

More about me…

The Corcoran Group

Address: 2253 Broadway, New York, NY, 10024

Office Phone: (212) 877-6268

Cell Phone: (917) 312-0924

Email Me



Listings

Links

Archives

RSS 2.0 Feed for this blog