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NYPD

As Campus Protesters Blast ‘Brutal and Spineless Tactics,’ City Hall Touts ‘Precision Policing’

May 1, 2024, 2:17 p.m.May 1, 2024, 8:01 p.m.

Mayor Eric Adams and top police officials continued to claim, with little evidence, that “outside agitators” were behind the encampments.

NYPD

NYPD Breaks Up Campus Encampments at City College and Columbia, Arresting Student Protesters

April 30, 2024, 10:28 p.m.May 1, 2024, 11:09 a.m.

Mayor Eric Adams said the police were needed because pro-Paelstinian students had been “co-opted” by outside agitators, even as Columbia closed off the campus to everyone except to residents and essential personnel.

Hunter College sophomore Molly Gardiner works outside her dorm in Kips Bay.

Real Estate

No New Dorm Plan as CUNY Prepares to Raze Hundreds of Affordable Student Rooms

April 29, 2024, 4:59 a.m.April 28, 2024, 11:51 a.m.

The Brookdale dorms cost students about $7,500 a year and will soon be replaced by a new science campus that includes no student housing.

Students, educators, and advocates from the Youth Journalism Coalition will hold a day of action at City Hall on Thursday, urging City Council and other officials to more journalism programs across the city’s schools.

CUNY

NYC Students Urge Officials to Expand Youth Journalism Opportunities

April 18, 2024, 9:05 a.m.April 18, 2024, 11:40 a.m.

Most city high schools lack newspapers. A new journalism curriculum could help change that.

A Farmer’s Fridge offers salads and pasta bowls as an alternative to the closed cafeteria at Bronx Community College.

Food

CUNY Community Colleges in The Bronx Left Without Cafeteria Service

March 4, 2024, 5:00 a.m.March 1, 2024, 3:01 p.m.

Only vending machines have offered food at two campuses since late September.

York College in Jamaica, Queens, Jan. 12, 2024

Education

CUNY Layoffs and Class Cuts Come Just Weeks Before New Semester

Jan. 12, 2024, 4:57 p.m.Jan. 17, 2024, 3:44 p.m.

Department chairs say being forced to make the last-minute cuts is unprecedented as faculty scrambles to fill gaps and figure out new schedules.

Queens

Airbnb, Which Threw Homeless CUNY Students a Lifeline, Says New Law Banning Short-Term Rentals Could End That

Sept. 13, 2023, 5:00 a.m.Sept. 13, 2023, 11:55 a.m.

A pilot program funded by the booking giant has provided a handful of community college students vouchers for six months of free housing, but the program is in limbo now.