Early voting began for the New York City midterm elections this week, with West Harlem residents hitting the polls to cast their ballots for who will be the next Congress members, governor, and state legislators.

The Riverside Park Conservancy held their annual Riverside Park Pup Halloween Parade on Saturday, drawing nearly 3,000 contestants and spectators to the park for the spectacle. From ‘weiners’ to doggy potters, contestants dazzled the crowd.

Early voting for the 2026 midterm elections starts on Saturday.

BridgeColumbia, a multipartisan dialogue-based student organization at Columbia, was named chapter of the year at BridgeUSA’s 2026 national summit in Philadelphia in August.

The pews of West Harlem’s Riverside Church filled with dignitaries, activists, and community members on Monday night for an event, hosted by South Africa, in celebration of the U.N. charter, “We Shall Not Be Moved.”

In the past four years, Columbia’s campus has borne witness to an unprecedented level of instability. The University has seen five different presidents amid fervent campus protests and pressures from the federal government.

Last summer, a hacker stole data from Columbia’s networks in a major cyberattack. Now, the University says Columbia affiliates were not the only targets of the hack, and the personal data of some unaffiliated prospective students, including their Social Security numbers, was also stolen.

Residents of Barnard’s 620 W. 116th St. have been living without operating cooking gas for over a year. In January, Columbia informed over 100 graduate tenants at 542 W. 112th St. to find a new home by the end of May, as their building would soon be allocated solely for undergraduates.

City Council Majority Leader Shaun Abreu, CC ’14, announced the three winning projects in District 7’s participatory budget cycle Friday, with residents voting to allocate $1.15 million in funding toward library and park improvements.

Ahead of the World Cup, elected officials and community advocates have restarted a push to get the West Harlem ferry service up and running in hopes of improving transportation for the thousands of soccer fans flocking to the city and bringing broader benefits to the local community.