Tom Elliott

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COLUMBIA'S ASTROTURF

COLUMBIA University is making great efforts to pre vent community objections from derailing its plan for a massive expansion in West Harlem. But its methods seem to rely more on...

EVICTIONS MADE (TOO) EASY

TO realize its planned expansion in Man hattanville, Columbia University will need the power of eminent domain - that is, the ability to force property owners to sell at a...

NISENSON, 26, MCREDMOND, 26

JULY 28 - Despite being high school sweethearts, Trisha McRedmond wasn't sure she'd marry Oliver Nisenson until he wrote her a love song. "He taped a love song he wrote...

'SOCIAL JUSTICE' HYPOCRITES

HERE'S a good one, even by New York standards: A group that claims its mis sion is to prompt better conditions for restaurant workers may itself be sued soon by...

FOOD FIGHT

IT'S causing chaos for the city's upper-end eateries - without apparent benefit to anyone except the folks wreaking the havoc. They say their goal is social justice, but some would...