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

City College, Against Its Nature, Asks Police to End Campus Protest

May 04, 2024 by NYT > New York

Key Facts

  • On Amsterdam Avenue in Harlem, officers massed outside the campus of the City College of New York on Tuesday
  • Credit...Spencer Platt/Getty Images May 4, 2024, 3:00 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.
  • She grew up in Harlem and, as a high school student in 1969, brought food to protesters at the campus.

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