With Community Board members soundly rejecting Columbia University's expansion plans in Manhattanville and booing former Mayor Dinkins for his support of the proposal, "the battle is just getting started," The New York Daily News's Frank Lombardi reports.
But an editorialist in the Daily News thinks the fight is ludicrous, seeing the protocol to solicit community opinion about land use transform into a "Gulliver Gambit: pretending to support progress, but only if the developer agrees to attach a thousand tiny strings to a big project." Opinion writer Errol Morris finds Nick Sprayregen's proposal more promising the the community board's objections. Sprayregen, the owner of the Tuck-It-Away Self Storage, located in the middle of the proposed expansion, is offering the Ivy League institution his parcels of land in exchange for other properties in the area. He says he'd build housing on the lots he's requesting, including an undetermined number of affordable units.
Next up: Borough President Scott Stringer's hearings on the expansion at the Manhattanville Houses Community Center on 9/19.
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