Rihanna announced her pregnancy with rapper A$AP Rocky today with a photoshoot in front of Columbia’s Manhattanville campus, near Rocky’s childhood home. The couple took photos along the 12th Avenue corridor, where dozens of businesses have struggled after being forced to move during the campus’s construction. The Business School’s Kravis Hall was visible in the background of the photos.

As a group of police approached his mobile dispensary, the Green Truck, Mikey looked nervously over his jars of cannabis flower. He geared up to “handle the situation,” but the officers were not there to harass him this time—they were just looking for a COVID-19 testing center.

With billions of federal dollars on their way to city and state governments thanks to the recent bipartisan infrastructure bill, Community Board 9 is championing solutions for what it sees as pressing infrastructure problems facing the Morningside Heights and West Harlem communities.

Carman Hall, Lerner Hall, and Butler Hall were evacuated after Columbia received bomb threats this afternoon, according to emergency text notifications sent to students at 2:27 p.m. today. At 4:44 pm, the University notified students that police had concluded their investigation and all three aforementioned buildings had been swept and were being reopened.

Some New York City residents spend hours searching for parking spots, which have been in ever-shrinking supply since the start of the pandemic. Others use that time to enjoy the elaborate outdoor dining setups that have taken over former parking spaces. With one of the highest population densities in the country, street space in New York City is at a premium, and debate simmers around how best to optimize it.