As It Seeks More Room, Columbia Treads Carefully

A planned $5-billion development in neighboring Harlem reawakens old animosities

By AUDREY WILLIAMS JUNE

New York

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...

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