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2011-12 in Review: After criticism, West Harlem Development Corporation gets organized

As of November, the WHDC had distributed only $300,000 of the $3.55 million it had received from Columbia as part of the Community Benefits Agreement.

By Jillian Kumagai and Finn Vigeland | May 6 01:32 pm ET

2011-12 in Review: Manhattanville construction proceeds, faces setbacks

Construction of Columbia's Manhattanville campus continued through a demolition worker's death, several fraud investigations of construction firms, and the loss of potential city funding to Cornell.

By Jillian Kumagai | May 6 12:14 pm ET

Mayor awards NYU $15 million for tech campus, but no word on Columbia

NYU will build a campus for urban science in downtown Brooklyn.

By Finn Vigeland | Apr 23 06:24 pm ET

Group handling West Harlem community benefits money hires executive director

Businessman Kofi Boateng will lead the West Harlem Development Corporation as executive director, the organization announced Monday.

By Jillian Kumagai | Apr 9 02:18 pm ET

CB9 will designate projects to be funded by M’ville money

A committee will focus on outlining specific programs in need of financial support from the Community Benefits Agreement, which is supposed to allocate $76 million to local housing, education, and job initiatives over 15 years.

By Jillian Kumagai | Mar 22 05:18 am ET

M’ville looks for minority, women, local businesses

The University has often had a strained relationship with its neighbors in working on the campus expansion, especially when it comes to fulfilling its employment promises. But small business owners said they had a lot more to be happy about on Tuesday.

By Jillian Kumagai | Feb 3 03:44 am ET

To the end of the line

Columbia students know the highs and lows of singing in a boiler room.

By Samuel E. Roth | Feb 1 08:17 pm ET

City still negotiating with CU after Cornell wins tech competition

Over break, Cornell won the mayor's $100 million competition to bring a new tech campus to New York. Still, officials say Columbia may receive money for its Manhattanville campus yet.

By Jillian Kumagai | Jan 17 12:47 am ET

Cornell to be awarded money in Bloomberg's engineering campus competition

After saying he would pronounce a winner in January, Mayor Michael Bloomberg surprises and will announce his pick of Cornell University today, Spectator has confirmed.

By Jillian Kumagai and Finn Vigeland | Dec 18 10:31 pm ET

Stanford drops out of engineering competition, Cornell receives $350 million gift

Two developments in the bid for $100 million to build a new engineering campus in New York City changed the dynamics of the competition on Friday.

By Jeremy Budd and Finn Vigeland | Dec 16 05:02 pm ET

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