Boro-President Scott Stringer Announces Agreement with Columbia University and Manhattanville Community
Culvert Chronicles, The › August 21, 2009
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Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer and Columbia University President Lee Bollinger recently announced that they have reached an agreement on a series of steps to benefit the West Harlem Community as it relates to Columbia's planned expansion of their Manhattanville campus. The agreement contains a series of commitments from Columbia that will directly address community needs including affordable housing, open space, sustainable development, community resources, and greater accommodation of the local Community Board's 197-a plan for the area.
"This is an historic day for the future of West Harlem and all of New York City," Borough President Stringer said. "Columbia's expansion will enable Northern Manhattan to remain a global center of higher education while bringing benefits in the form of affordable housing, jobs, sustainable development, economic opportunity and scientific research that will have a far reaching positive impact on the local West Harlem community and our city as a whole. I have sought to play a role in this process that would lead to a clear understanding that any expansion proposal must work to enhance the lives of those who will be directly impacted by its effects and today I am confident that, we have reached an agreement that will do just that."We are pleased to have earned the Borough President's recommendation," said Columbia President Lee Bollinger. "We understand that the public review process has several steps to go; and we look forward to working with the City Planning Commission as well as the City Council to complete that process. Our goal is to continue to respond to the concerns of our neighbors and their representatives to- make sure that Columbia's long-term growth in Manhattanville brings the widest possible benefit to the people who live and work in West Harlem and our whole city."See the full content of this document
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Boro-President Scott Stringer Announces Agreement with Columbia University and Manhattanville Community
Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer and Columbia University President Lee Bollinger recently announced that they have reached an agreement on a series of steps to benefit the West Harlem Community as it relates to Columbia's planned expansion of their Manhattanville campu...
See the full content of this document
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