Showing posts with label Columbia University. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Columbia University. Show all posts
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Friday, February 8, 2013
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
SCREENINGS OF THE VANISHING CITY
THE VANISHING CITY exposes the policies and economic philosophy behind
New York's finance dominated economy, the concentration of wealth, and
the process that has subsidizedluxury development and jeopardized the
social fabric of neighborhoods thathave always made New York unique.
The first screening is at:
Columbia University
Wednesday, May 9
at the Teachers' College in Russell 306 (part of the Gottesman Library)
from 7pm - 9pm
as part of the Coalition to Preserve Community
A Q&A panel will follow with the filmmakers and,
Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Author, Saskia Sassen and,
Hip Hop Artist, Activist and Writer, Propaganda Anonymous
Free to the public. Make reservations online:
http://pocketknowledge.tc.
The second screening is at:
The Catholic Worker
Friday, May 11 at 7:45pm
55 East 3rd Street
Between 1st and 2nd Avenue
A Q&A panel will follow with the filmmakers and,
Joseph Bolanos, President of Block Association Landmark 76 and,
David Mulkins, Chair of the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors
Free Admission
THE VANISHING CITY events link:
http://www.thevanishingcity.
New York's finance dominated economy, the concentration of wealth, and
the process that has subsidizedluxury development and jeopardized the
social fabric of neighborhoods thathave always made New York unique.
The first screening is at:
Columbia University
Wednesday, May 9
at the Teachers' College in Russell 306 (part of the Gottesman Library)
from 7pm - 9pm
as part of the Coalition to Preserve Community
A Q&A panel will follow with the filmmakers and,
Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Author, Saskia Sassen and,
Hip Hop Artist, Activist and Writer, Propaganda Anonymous
Free to the public. Make reservations online:
http://pocketknowledge.tc.
The second screening is at:
The Catholic Worker
Friday, May 11 at 7:45pm
55 East 3rd Street
Between 1st and 2nd Avenue
A Q&A panel will follow with the filmmakers and,
Joseph Bolanos, President of Block Association Landmark 76 and,
David Mulkins, Chair of the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors
Free Admission
THE VANISHING CITY events link:
http://www.thevanishingcity.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Students and Community Protest Columbia Worker Death
Michael Schwartz for New York Daily News
Scene at W. 131st St. construction site where one worker was fatally injured and two were hurt badly on March 22.
THE TRAGIC death of a hardhat who was demolishing a building owned by Columbia University came after the school and its contractors racked up a slew of safety complaints, the Daily News has found.
The Ivy League institution has been hit with 59 code violations and has been forced to shut down work 13 times since launching its controversial campus expansion two years ago, building records show.
The complaints were spread across the 64 properties located on the 17-acre site, which runs from 125th to 133rd Sts., and between 12th Ave. and Broadway.
Workers were flagged for everything from improperly removing fire sprinklers to blocking fire exits and failing to shore up listing walls, the records show.
In fact, as city inspectors picked through the ruins of the warehouse on W. 131st St. where 69-year-old Juan Ruiz was killed Thursday, a tipster warned that a wall on another Columbia-owned building a block away was close to giving way, The News has learned.
Columbia spokeswoman Victoria Benitez declined to discuss the deadly collapse or the prior violations, citing the ongoing Buildings Department probe.
“Their official determination of the facts is an essential step in the process,” she said.
Ruiz — and the two workers who survived the building collapse — were employed by Breeze National, a Brooklyn-based outfit that was headed for years by Luchese crime family associate Toby Romano. Breeze officials say his son now runs the company.
City inspectors suspect the collapse was caused when a worker sliced through a support beam.
Breeze, however, said that horizontal beam was spliced to another beam. And it was the bolts connecting the two pieces that failed.
Ruiz was the second worker to die during construction of Columbia’s new $6.4 billion campus.
Jozef Wilk, a 51-year-old Polish immigrant who also worked for Breeze, fell to his death while demolishing another Columbia-owned building on Broadway.
King Range, 60, and Sakim Kirby, 30, the two workers who survived the collapse that killed Ruiz, were both in stable condition at St. Luke’s Hospital.
Kirby’s dad said his son is in a lot of pain.
“It’s surreal,” he said. “I want to know what happened and who is responsible for what happened to my son.”
With Henrick Karoliszyn
From NYDailyNews.com
Monday, December 5, 2011
Events in West Harlem About Columbia University Expansion
Jobs Protest organized by the St. Mary’s group on Friday, December 9 at 3:00 P.M. starting at 116th and Broadway and proceeding uptown to the Columbia “employment” center on Broadway just below 125th.
Friday night, December 9, at 7 or 7:30, there will be a showing of a film, “The Battle for Brooklyn” about Prospect Heights construction at the Maysles Cinema, 343 Lenox Ave. between 127th and 128th Sts.. Tom Kappner and Yoni Golijov from CPC will be speakers in a panel discussion about the effect of the Columbia expansion on the surrounding communities following the films.
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