October 1, 2004
As It Seeks More Room, Columbia Treads Carefully
A planned $5-billion development in neighboring Harlem reawakens old animosities
Columbia University would seem to have it all: Top-shelf professors. Students skimmed from the upper percentiles of their high-school classes. An Ivy League pedigree. A 36-acre campus in what many deem the world's greatest city. And a $4.3-billion endowment.
What it doesn't have is space.
Located on one of the most crowded and affluent islands in the world, Columbia is feeling squeezed. At least a half-dozen of its peer institutions (which include, for this reckoning,
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