Davarian L Baldwin, "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" (Bold Type Press, 2021)
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Greenwich Village vs. University of New York
In both cases, you have very strong community boards that explicitly said, we do not support the plans as demonstrated by the universities. Both call them company town projects, which is interesting, a and. But the problem is that in both cases, community boards are advisory. They don't have legislative power. And so this becomes the story of democracy denied. We see straight out gangsterism in the sense that a columba university, in order to they try to enact emminent domain. In two thousand five, columbia ramped up its project to engage in imy domain. Now here's the gangsterism: A government agency sign off on it. It got exposed by
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