PrezBo hates on ROTC; student council people hate on each other.
We all hate lawsuits, right? Well, this one's gone!
Does CCSC hate the internet?
This man hates organized food in supermarkets.
The hatred of eminent domain continues, but now it has dates.
September 26, 2008
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Nick Sprayregen may be the loudest Manhattanville holdout, but he's not the only one.
Meet Gurnam Singh, owner of two gas stations on 125th Street. He's the other holdout to Columbia in Manhattanville, though he's declined to speak publicly about the wrangling until this month.
In an exclusive with the New York Times published Sunday, Singh finally shares his side of the story after years of unsuccessful negotiations with Columbia. It's a tale of immigrant success mixed with recent woe—Singh bought the stations in the 1980s after immigrating to the United States from India, but the past year has brought his family frustration, exhaustion, and one case of stress-induced shingles blisters.
Read the story for the full details. Also keep an eye out for a surprise cameo by Sprayregen, who Bwog speculates may possess a hotline phone to the NYT Metro desk.
- JYH
September 21, 2008
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Do you increase Columbia's net worth? Or should the admissions officer have accepted Joe State in your place?
Capitalism: keeping America on top! What's that you say China? You are going to launch the Bird Nest into space?
Money: keeping the J-School on top! But are there going to be any newspapers left?
Manhattanville's consumer confidence decreases: losing property and can't afford public transit. But worry not, fair reader, Prezbo did a little work while chilling in Vermont.
September 3, 2008
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Meet Nick Sprayregen -- that's him over there on the right, alongside anti-Columbia propaganda. For three years, he's upheld a solemn vow to rally against the University's expected use of eminent domain by holding onto his Manhattanville storage company, Tuck-It-Away Storage. He's also the subject of an Observer profile from earlier this week (and one from the Times earlier this year), which chronicles his Sisyphean battle against Columbia.
Specifically, Sprayregen's opposed to the University's imminent use of eminent domain, and in the past has tried to make a deal with Columbia in hopes of convincing them to drop it from their game plan. But Bollinger and his Legal All Stars wooed Harlem politicians with promises of low-income housing and an increase of jobs, so Columbia's plan was approved by the state, Manhattanville was deemed "blighted", and Sprayregen's hopes of warding off eminent domain looked bleak.
July 25, 2008
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So yesterday the Empire State Development Corp. voted to approve Columbia's $6.28 billion expansion expansion into Manhattanville.
In doing so, the state designated the area as blighted, which is necessary in order to invoke eminent domain.
The decision came as a result of a blight study by AKRF Inc., which found that Manhattanville consisted of "aging, poorly maintained and functionally obsolete industrial buildings with little indication of recent reinvestment to revive their generally deteriorated condition."
July 18, 2008
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