A teenage boy—who was charged as a minor—was sentenced to 18 months in the custody of The New York City Administration for Children’s Services for his involvement in the robbery that led to the death of Barnard first-year Tess Majors in December 2019. He was 13 years old at the time of the incident.

Hundreds of workers in Morningside Heights and Manhattanville were laid off in the last two weeks following orders to close all nonessential businesses and limit restaurants to offering takeout and delivery only.

On 12th Avenue, in a once-industrial area that now resides in the shadows of Columbia’s ongoing construction in Manhattanville, business owners largely agree on one factor that has led to a 30 percent decrease in revenue and two closed businesses during 2019: a lack of parking spaces.

Struggling business owners discussed ways to rebrand Manhattanville, including proposals for a name change, in order to help address the economic pains faced by businesses on the campus’ 12th Avenue border at a meeting on Tuesday.

Accelerating the momentum from a nationally-covered climate change protest at the Harvard-Yale game in November, the Sunrise Movement at Columbia organized a video campaign called #NobodyWins in collaboration with 17 other universities. The video aims to present a unified message that calls attention to the growing strength of the University fossil fuel divestment movement.