NO TO COLUMBIA EXPANSION: VOTERS

NO TO COLUMBIA EXPANSION: VOTERS
AP

August 21, 2007 -- Columbia University, pushing to get local support for a $7 billion expansion plan that calls for razing much of a working-class Harlem neighborhood, lost a nonbinding community-board vote yesterday.
The vote, 31-2 against zoning changes, will be considered by planning officials, but is only a recommendation.

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