eminent domain: Manhattanville: Eminent Domain, Columbia University, Tuck-it-Away
- 02/26/13 07:18 AM
Manhattanville Like much of upper Manhattan, 200 years ago, Manhattanville was a largely unpopulated wooded valley. By the 1920s Manhattanville was the transit hub of Manhattan. New York's first subway line, then known as the IRT, passed through 125th Street and Broadway with the first elevated subway platform in the world. The Riverside Drive Viaduct, connects Manhattanville by linking Morningside Heights and Hamilton Heights with an elevated overpass, considered revolutionary engineering at the time. The Harlem River Piers were once Manhattan's only major port on the Hudson. Today the #1 Broadway subway line becomes elevated for about 10 blocks around 125th … (4 comments)
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)
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)
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)
eminent domain: 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)
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