The Riverside Church congregation voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to extend the Weekday School’s operations through the 2025-26 school year and draft a plan for its long-term sustainability.

Sera Yoshino and Omar Tuffaha’s daughter was two years old when Columbia closed Red Balloon, the West Harlem preschool she attended.

Community Board 9 held its annual public hearing on Tuesday on its priorities for the city budget in fiscal year 2025, emphasizing needs for funding for local community health centers and parks.

Top leadership from several religious institutions in Morningside Heights joined a coalition of organizations on Thursday to protest the city’s attempts to suspend its right to shelter mandate.

Despite decades-old tensions between the University and the West Harlem community, local elected officials attended or delivered glowing remarks at University President Minouche Shafik’s inauguration ceremony on Wednesday, expressing optimism about Shafik’s perceived openness toward engaging with the West Harlem community.

Amid the search for a new child care provider to replace the Red Balloon Learning Center in its space at 560 Riverside Drive, University administrators reiterated commitments to fulfilling Red Balloon stakeholder demands in a Friday meeting with Red Balloon representatives and Student-Worker Solidarity leaders.