Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

Makes Hagstrom Mapmakers Squirm

Maybe they should just rename it “Columbia”:

As 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.”