Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials forcibly detained a man at West 157th Street and Broadway at around 8 a.m. on Wednesday, according to footage posted online and witness interviews conducted by Spectator. The officials wore face masks and several appeared to be without law enforcement identification.

Long before New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced his mayoral campaign, his political agenda focused on legislation and advocacy related to Columbia. His past challenges to the University’s property accumulation and tax exemptions suggest a potential shift toward a more adversarial relationship between Columbia and the city’s highest office.

The Palestine Festival of Literature hosted a lecture titled “America and the War on Palestine” on Sunday in Riverside Church. The event, moderated by author Ta-Nehisi Coates, sold out the nave of the church, which seats over 1,500 people.

The City College of New York’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine announced on Oct. 23 “Bilal’s Boycott Campaign,” a movement to boycott cafés that have expressed political or financial support for Israel and instead patronize seven participating coffee shops.

The Riverside Park Conservancy held its annual goat retirement ceremony on Sunday in Riverside Park, crowning Romeo the GOAT—greatest of all time—of summer 2024.

On the 56th anniversary of the 1968 police sweep, officers once again surged onto Columbia’s campus to clear occupied Hamilton Hall. In 1968, the New York Police Department beat and arrested hundreds of students who occupied five buildings in protest of the Vietnam War and the planned construction of a gym in Morningside Park.

A New York Police Department officer fired their gun inside of Hamilton Hall during the Tuesday sweep, Carlos Valdez, commanding officer of the Emergency Service Unit, confirmed during a Friday morning press conference.