Columbia students joined thousands of demonstrators in Foley Square on Friday for an emergency rally following the shooting of a Marble Hill resident by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s office came out in support of an open Columbia campus on Thursday, siding with community members who have been rallying against the University’s gate closures for almost two years.

Popular Chinese tea franchise Molly Tea opened its store near Columbia in April, five blocks away from the Morningside campus. But a recent lawsuit filed by its Chinese parent company says it was never authorized to do so.

A heat wave is hitting New York City, Wednesday through Saturday, with feels-like temperatures rising up to 109 degrees on Friday. The numbers can be deadly—the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reported 21 heat-stress deaths last year, the highest tally in more than a decade—and West Harlem is vulnerable to the heat.

Two local legislative candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani scored victories in their Democratic primaries Tuesday night—Darializa Avila Chevalier, CC ’16, and Eli Northrup—while progressive candidate Conrad Blackburn was beat out by incumbent Jordan Wright.

Columbia has opened applications for eight affordable apartments in its housing portfolio, designated specifically for tenants unaffiliated with the University.

Following Columbia’s Manhattanville expansion, Harry Schwartz, CC ’56, co-founder of the Morningside Heights Community Coalition, made two demands: the construction of an elevator at the 125th Street-Broadway subway station, where the platform rises over 50 feet above street level, and for the University to help pay for it.

“I know that these are a lot of the tactics that [Espaillat’s] machine uses against insurgent candidates and other folks that might try to get on the ballot to challenge him, so I was expecting this,” Chevalier’s campaign manager Ilona Duverge said.