Columbia University demolished a corner commercial building in West Harlem last year but not much has been happening on the site until this past week. We noticed that new machinery had arrived on this corner of 148th on Broadway and that the foundation work is now quickly progressing. When all is finished, there will be a new 12-story residential building rising on this intersection of Hamilton Heights which will help house the families displaced by the new Columbia Manhattanville campus being built at 125th Street. A rendering of the final building can be found in our past post:
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I wonder how many displaced families are actually waiting or have moved on. It's still a shame how Columbia University is making the community of Harlem into one big campus of transits.
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ReplyDeleteThe people that are being displaced (note it has not yet occurred yet) were going to buy their apartments from the city- and instead they are getting an apartment a bit further north. Not sure how this makes the community transient. And yes, this will only be 1 building it will account for those that are being displaced with a few extra apartments- as well as space for the church and retail at the ground floor, it is Broadway after all.
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