What Prompted the City College of New York to Call the N.Y.P.D.

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• On Amsterdam Avenue in Harlem, officers massed outside the campus of the City College of New York on Tuesday
• Credit...Spencer Platt/Getty Images Published May 4, 2024Updated May 5, 2024, 9:31 a.m. ET It was after 10 p.m. on Tuesday, and the administration building of a college in Upper Manhattan had been ransacked.
• But City College, “the Harvard of the proletariat,” has a unique place in New York, with a mandate to educate the poorest residents, and a long history of radical politics and protest.
• A version of this article appears in print on May 5, 2024, Section A, Page 24 of the New York edition with the headline: City College, Against Its Nature, Moved to End Protest.

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