Why Is CCNY Stiffing Local Community Board #9's Queries About Its New Dorm Plans?

With the community's attention largely focused on Columbia's proposed development of the Manhattanville segment of West Harlem (running west from Broadway to the Riverside Drive viaduct) as a new campus, CCNY is apparently stiffing local Manhattan Community Board #9's queries about its plans to build (presumably very high rise) dormitories. What's up here -- a new hit on the Dormitory Authority to house what kinds of students where? Needless to say those living in one of the few reasonably economical living areas in Manhattan have good reason to be worried by this potential academic pincer movement in process in their 'hood. Already gentrification in West Harlem is raising real estate prices sky high there. The hundreds of households living in 3333 Broadway have lost their rent control protections and are waiting nervously for the next boot to fall. Ed Kent
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