West Harlem residents in District 70 will cast their final votes in the primary election on Tuesday, ending a competitive four-way race for the general election to succeed current Assembly Member Inez Dickens, who announced her retirement in January after 34 years in elected office.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office on Wednesday dropped felony burglary charges against seven pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at City College of New York on April 30.

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.

Columbia will hire a “Safe Passage Liaison” and maintain a 24/7 Public Safety escort program as part of its Tuesday settlement of a class action lawsuit, filed by a Jewish student in late April in response to an alleged rise in “round-the-clock harassment of Jewish students” on and near Columbia’s campus.

District 69 New York State Assembly Member Daniel O’Donnell has endorsed candidate Eli Northrup in the race to succeed him, Northrup announced in a press release on Tuesday.

Dozens of protesters occupied Hamilton Hall at approximately 12:30 a.m. on April 30, demanding full University divestment from companies with ties to Israel. The protesters renamed Hamilton “Hind’s Hall” in honor of Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed by the Israeli military in Gaza on Jan. 29.

Following the April 30 occupation of Hamilton Hall, the University restricted access to the Morningside campus to students living in on-campus residence halls and “essential personnel.” The restrictions to Morningside campus access for the past week left many Columbia students with limited dining options.

Forty-six protesters arrested for occupying Hamilton Hall were charged with criminal trespassing—a class B misdemeanor. All 46 pleaded not guilty to the charges.