manhattanville: Just Listed 565 West 125th Street - 03/31/17 09:12 AM
Spacious and Affordable Two bedroom in West Harlem At the Crossroads of Morningside Heights and Manhattanville  

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manhattanville: Supreme Court OK's Eminent Domain Use for Columbia University - 12/14/10 04:13 PM

 
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)

manhattanville: NY State Approves Columbia University Expansion: Eminent Domain - 07/18/08 01:54 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)

manhattanville: Columbia University, NYU; Apartment Buildings - Real Estate Empires - 08/27/07 04:53 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)

 
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