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A Sikh professor at Columbia was badly beaten on Saturday in an attack the NYPD is investigating as a possible hate crime: “According to a New York Police Department source, Dr. Prabhjot Singh, who is Sikh and wears a turban and a beard, was attacked at 8:15 p.m. while walking along 110th Street near Lennox Avenue in upper Manhattan. An unknown suspect or suspects shouted anti-Muslim statements, knocked the professor down and punched him numerous times in the face.” We hear he was beaten by young men on bicycles. (Huffington Post)
Private school Collegiate appears to be having some class anxiety about its planned new school on West 62nd street. “[W]hen Collegiate School—an all-boys K-12 institution on the Upper West Side that has been in its current location since 1892—announced this year it would move to a brand-new building in the same neighborhood, the reaction was, perhaps, predictable: apprehension. School officials gave the architects simple instructions: Make it nice, but not too nice.” Meanwhile, court papers not mentioned in this article have shown that the school will cost about $118 milion. It’s like buying designer jeans and then asking someone to scuff them up a little. (Wall Street Journal)
UWS intellectual Marshall Berman died earlier this month. “Marshall Berman, the philosopher, writer and professor who wrote the influential modernist text All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, died on Sept. 11 at the age of 72. Mr. Berman had a heart attack while having breakfast with a friend at his favorite haunt, The Metro Diner on 100th Street and Broadway.” (Observer)
The UWS has three new interim principals. “Claudine Cassan-Jellison has been named the interim acting principal at P.S 333 on West 93rd Street, Candida Frith will lead M.S. 256 on West 93rd Street and Caitlin Caldwell was appointed to M.S. 247 on West 92nd Street.” (DNAinfo)
Parents of Ariel Russo, who was mowed down by a teen driver this summer, want to name part of 97th street after her. (Daily News)
Christina Gonzalez, running as a Green for the District 7 City Council seat (Manhattan Valley and North), was labeled a “professional agitator” by the NYPD. (DNAinfo)
The middle class in New York has been hit hard since 2000. The vast majority of new jobs have been ri in low-wage sectors. “At the same time high- and middle-wage industries were struggling to retain jobs, the low-wage sector in New York City exploded. Positions in retail and service industries now account for the bulk of the city’s economic growth, according to the institute’s data.” (Daily News)
An ultramarathoner will run 33 times around the Central Park loop for charity. (Fox News)
