Makes Hagstrom Mapmakers Squirm
Maybe they should just rename it “Columbia”:
Posted: January 2nd, 2007 | Filed under: Blatant Localism, ManhattanAs Columbia University seeks to expand, there is almost as much debate about what to call its target neighborhood — bounded by 125th and 135th Sts., Broadway and Riverside Drive — as there is about the project itself.
Is it Manhattanville, as Columbia contends, or West Harlem?
“It’s an odd sort of a quibble,” said Eric Washington, author of “Manhattanville: Old Heart of West Harlem.”