News: “From the Heights”

We hear that the planned Columbia University expansion is pushing North and Westward and into the Heights.

Initial reports had the University expansion reaching up to 135th street, and just touching the Southern edge of the Hamilton Heights neighborhood.

Sources tell the Hamilton Heights Herald that the land now occupied by the 99 Cents Store on Broadway and 147th street has been sold and that Columbia plans to use square block parcel for a multi story building that will be part of its planned expansion.

The Herald wants to know. What do you think?

Is this welcome development for a part of Broadway that could use more business traffic?

Do you think it will bring more jobs to the area? Or are you concerned about the potential impact it may have on local rent?

Please let us know if you are like us…are a resident of Hamilton Heights, or part of the Columbia University Community or just a concerned person interested in community development issues?

Hamilton Heights is bounded by 135 and 155th Streets at North and South and by the river and St Nicholas Avenue to the East. It lies in West Harlem and is home to the City University of New York (CUNY), Riverbank State Park, the Dance Theater of Harlem and the Harlem School of Arts.

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