The 1968 protests at Columbia were aimed against the university's plan for a gym in Morningside Park as much as, or more than, the Vietnam War. This was part of a nation-wide SDS campaign against university expansion, from which today's left-nimbyism largely originated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Columbia_University_protests
@BenRossTransit The bit where they said that having entrances on different floors was racial segregation, rather than the natural elevation differences on the two sides of the park, was so silly.
@Alon Jane Jacobs specifically endorsed this plan in Death & Life:
"Columbia University is taking a constructive step by planning sports facilities--for both the unniversity and the neighborhood--in Morningside Park."
The plan was initially welcomed by people in Harlem. The park was decrepit & crime-ridden.
@BenRossTransit (I'm seeing two more replies to you, and one more to me, that I can't see on Fedi. Who's writing those replies? It's not a block or a mute because I don't see them in private browsing either. Is Mastodon randomly hiding accounts again?)
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