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1 month ago | 
columbiaspectator.com | Stella Ragas |Tsehai Alfred |Spencer Davis |Eden Stranahan
The University put up metal barricades on Low Steps, blocking off the set of stairs above the main plaza and gating off the Alma Mater statue. The University put up metal barricades on Low Steps, blocking off the set of stairs above the main plaza and gating off the Alma Mater statue.
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2 months ago | 
columbiaspectator.com | Anna Fedorova |Tsehai Alfred
If elected, Okporo will be the first former asylum seeker to be seated on the council. If elected, Okporo will be the first former asylum seeker to be seated on the council.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Anna Fedorova |Tsehai Alfred
The anti-SLAPP statute protects defendants from lawsuits intended to silence them for “speaking out on a matter of public interest or concern,” according to the ACLU of Pennsylvania. The anti-SLAPP statute protects defendants from lawsuits intended to silence them for “speaking out on a matter of public interest or concern,” according to the ACLU of Pennsylvania.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Tsehai Alfred
Holding her grandmother’s floral painted urn on the concrete stoop of her childhood home, Kristina Lopez stood for a photo. As her mother flashed the bright camera light, Lopez clutched the remains of her late grandmother and stepgrandfather in both of her arms. In the background of the portrait, the first-floor apartment at 605 W. 111th St. that she shared with her grandparents in their last years of life loomed—and so did the fear of not being able to stay in her family home.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Manuela Silva |Tsehai Alfred
Rushing through the doors of P.S. 513 Castle Bridge School, Yamira looked at her phone: it was 9:05 a.m., and she was late to drop her two daughters off at school. The security guard recognized her and let her daughters into the building, and the two girls ran inside without looking back. For nearly eight hours each day, the school is their time away from the hotel room they share with their parents in Times Square.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Tsehai Alfred
Abreu joins a growing group of Democratic New York City politicians who have called for the mayor’s resignation. Abreu joins a growing group of Democratic New York City politicians who have called for the mayor’s resignation. Following reports that Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted after months of an intensifying federal probe into his administration, District 7 City Council member Shaun Abreu, CC ’14, called on Adams to resign in a Thursday morning statement on X.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Tsehai Alfred
For nearly 60 years, Virginia Pervez has called Morningside Park her neighborhood home. Every weekend for the past summer months, she has brought out senior residents and her larger community, gathering them around picnic tables with barbeque and soda, to support her seasonal softball league and “keep them out of the house, while the weather is still nice,” she says. But for around six months, the bathroom in her community “home” has been inaccessible.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Tsehai Alfred |Sarah Huddleston |Esha Karam |Shea Vance
The waterfall restoration will aid in mitigating environmental concerns in the park, including toxic algae blooms found in the pond. The waterfall restoration will aid in mitigating environmental concerns in the park, including toxic algae blooms found in the pond. For six years, the Morningside Park pond sat still and murky, as the waterfall—a once-beloved aspect of the West Harlem community—broke down and was never fully repaired.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Tsehai Alfred |Sarah Huddleston |Esha Karam |Shea Vance
Columbia University Apartheid Divest has called on Columbia to cease further expansion into Harlem and support affordable housing in surrounding communities. Columbia University Apartheid Divest has called on Columbia to cease further expansion into Harlem and support affordable housing in surrounding communities. Columbia University Apartheid Divest and Defend Harlem invited community members, students, and incoming first-years to a “Displacement in Harlem” teach-in at Sakura Park on Aug.
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Apr 20, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Claire Cleary |Tsehai Alfred |Isha Banerjee
The officers put the detained protester in handcuffs and confiscated their pan and spatula. The officers put the detained protester in handcuffs and confiscated their pan and spatula. The New York Police Department detained one protester on 117th Street and Broadway at around 11:54 a.m. on Saturday. The protester was part of an independent group of five to seven individuals gathered for a pro-Palestinian demonstration in front of the Earl Hall gates, a witness of the arrest told Spectator.
