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Neighborhood Name Game

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NEW NEIGHBOR: Columbia University’s plans to expand north (see rendering) has spurred a neighborhood name debate.

As Columbia University seeks to expand, there is almost as much debate about what to call its target neighborhood — bounded by 125th and 135th streets, Broadway and Riverside Drive — as there is about the project itself. Is it Manhattanville, as Columbia contends, or West Harlem? Read more

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