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VIDEO: Cooper Union Students Take Over President's Office, Hold Vote of No Confidence (Update)

This post is being updated as the story develops. See most recent updates at the bottom. A little before 11 a.m., more than 50 students took over Cooper Union President Jamshed Bharucha's office on the seventh floor of the school. Students say they're holding a vote of no confidence in Bharucha's l ... More >>

Which NYC Mayoral Candidates Think Spying on American Muslims is Unconstitutional?

On Sunday afternoon, seven mayoral hopefuls gathered for a forum co-hosted by the Arab American Association of New York (AAANY) and the Islamic Center at New York University. Community organizers hailed it as an historic moment. Nearly three weeks after the Boston bombings--and in the heat of the de ... More >>

10 Class Title Suggestions for David Petraeus, Who Will Be Teaching at CUNY

This week, CUNY announced that it would be bringing on an exciting new staff member: Former CIA director David Petraeus, who has been named "Visiting Professor of Public Policy" and will start in August. But what exactly will Petraeus be teaching? Public policy is a pretty broad topic. With respect ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 3/11/13

Here are the 10 best concerts around the city this week, in no particular order.

Alan Dershowitz to Brooklyn College: Academic Freedom For Me But Not For Thee

It has become a safe assumption that otherwise liberal and open-minded New York politicians will make an exception for Israel. Case in point: 10 members of the New York City Council have declared that they support academic freedom, just not the freedom of public universities to host events that do n ... More >>

New York Holds Demonstration In Solidarity With Montreal's Student Strike

Yesterday marked the hundredth day of Quebec student's strike, the fourth day since the Quebec government passed an oppressive law intended to break the strike, and, as hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets in defiance of the law, possibly the single largest act of civil disobedience in ... More >>

Scott Stringer: Let's Put Solar Panels on School Roofs

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, who is likely to run for mayor, released a report yesterday that called for the installation of solar panels on the roofs of city public schools. Releasing reports -- it's the thing to do if you want to be mayor, apparently! This one here is one of tho ... More >>

Preparing Students for College Is Kind of a New Thing, Education Officials Say

A City Council hearing today brought together key players in city education policy to discuss how to improve the college-readiness of public students. If only everyone could fit in the room. Runnin' Scared begged as crowds of hopeful attendees were shepherded into an additional viewing room. Eve ... More >>

100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

A 'power list' for the rest of us

'The Legacy of Reza Abdoh' Revisits the Noted Avant-Gardist's Career

Monday, December 19, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

The Bleak Future for NYC Students

More evidence emerges that the Education Mayor flunked

NYC Students Stage Walkouts in Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street

Inspired by Occupy Wall Street, students from around New York will walk out of their classes and march down to City Hall this afternoon. Once at City Hall, the students will join the larger Community/Labor March to Wall Street, which already has almost 3,000 people attending on Facebook. A few mont ... More >>

There Will Be a Protest to Protest the Treatment of Occupy Wall Street Protesters

Occupy Wall Street is now in its 12th day. This morning brought another march on Wall Street. In other cities, similar efforts are springing up. And, there are now efforts to protest the treatment the protesters have gotten from the NYPD -- most dramatically and media-attention-getting, the pepper-s ... More >>

SNEAK A PEEK

A prelude to the new season

A New Report Offers New Visions for New York's Street Fairs

A plague of souvlaki and tube socks.​The folks at Terroir aren't the only ones who have noticed that summer street fairs tend to suck. The Center for an Urban Future has just released "New Visions for New York Street Fairs," a report designed to "kick off a discussion about how these staples o ... More >>

Majority-minority New York holds majority-minority mayoral election

Crains NY​Voters who self-identify as white made up less than 50% of the turnout in last month's citywide elections, according to exit polling by Edison Media Research.

Charles Barron Celebrates Replacement of 9/11-Damaged Building With Shouting Match

​CUNY's Fiterman Hall, damaged by the 9/11 attacks, was finally torn down this week, and a groundbreaking for a new Hall held today. Unfortunately it wasn't the solemn event people were expecting. Our favorite councilmember, Charles Barron, expressed resentment at his seating arrangements and ... More >>

A Columbia Skyscraper Clouds Views for the University's Astronomy Students

Paterson Orders $500 Million in Cuts

Governor Paterson today ordered an 11 percent cut in the state's budget, which he says would amount to half a billion dollars in savings for the cash-strapped state. "When combined with last year's actions," the Governor claims, this "would result in annual, recurring savings of $1.5 billion." (Th ... More >>

Beekeepers Swarm Water Taxi Beach; Toll House Recall A Wake-up Call

Beekeepers swarmed Water Taxi Beach Monday night for the Beekeepers Ball, which kicked off Pollinator Week, a week dedicated to promoting beekeeping. Beekeeping is illegal in New York City, but a bill to lift the ban has been introduced and is currently awaiting a hearing. [NY Times] Fast-food chai ... More >>

From Camp to Campus

The new GI Bill promises to help more veterans afford college degrees—if anyone can figure out how it works

Liveblogging Quinn's State of the City: Cuts, Tax the Rich, Not Sales

At her upcoming State of the City speech, which she is expected to bellow at any moment, Council Speaker Christine Quinn is expected to propose an income tax hike on richer New Yorkers, says Liz Benjamin. Citizens making between $297,000 and $532,000 would see their rate rise from 3.683 percent to ... More >>

Bill Buckley Files Reveal FBI's Love, Helpful Cop

Council Increases Hotel, Property Taxes, Restores Some $

Paterson Proposes $2 Billion in Cuts in Health Care, Schools, Civil Service, SUNY/CUNY

FBI Spied on Pulitzer-Winning Times Scribe

Thursday

Spire Education: Cooper Union's Towering Tax Break

Women and Badness

Phyllis Chesler: prominent second-wave feminist—and neocon

Flippin' Out

What does the collar on a summer shirt signify? Interpretations go neck and neck.

Books

Film

Which Third Way?

Greens and the Working Families Party Try to Make Progressive Votes Count

Music

Two Connected Studios in High-Rise

A Tale of Two Schools

Borough of Manhattan Community College Struggles Without the Help That Has Come to Stuyvesant High

Maps and Chaps

••• The New Geography Reaches Critical Mass

Letters

Letters

Going After Globalization

Feminists Trade Strategies for a Woman-Friendly World Economy

NY Mirror

Letters

Train in vain

Letters

Giuliani Jihad

Rudy's Budget Blows Up CUNY, Board of Ed, and Youth Programs

Arresting Developments

Symbol and substance at One Police Plaza

Letters

bell's Lettres

Maid Man

Maid's room in Park Avenue building

City of Grace

Rudy on duty in the Bully Pulpit