Artist's rendering of 4650 Broadway
There's a front page article in today's Daily News about how Wien Stadium's neighborhood of Inwood is going upscale. Since the story is behind an impossible paywall for many of you, here is a page with some recent links about Inwood's rise as a more desirable - and more expensive - area.
Fans who have been attending CU games over the last few years have noticed this transformation already, especially when it comes to the explosion of good options to eat in the neighborhood.
And before you start to grouse about how all these new hi-rise buildings will snarl traffic and reduce the already limited parking in the area, remember that these buildings will likely all come with parking garages with some spaces available for non-residents.
I think it's fair to say that Inwood's ascendance into a hotter/hipper neighborhood will help the Lion program. The area around the stadium should be a place where the alumni and students want to be for more than just game time or just on game days.
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Columbia should have provided parking at or near Baker Field fifty plus years ago. The failure to do so has been a disaster. The Athletic Administration and the Board of Trustees should lobby the new University President to immediately purchase all or part of the fields across Broadway from the Soccer Stadium. Those fields could be used for parking for all Columbia sports activities. Bollinger had no interest in sports and was frightened by anti-sports types. That's why the Michigan Wolverines sent him packing a long time ago.
The Phil Steele Magazine ratings are a strong indication that Columbia has the talent to compete this year for the Ivy League Championship. Except for quarterback and linebacker, Columbia players are ranked highly by Steele at every position. Not only that, it is understandable that the Lion are unranked at quarterback, but everyone knows that Columbia closed out the 2022 season strongly at that position due to the standout play of Cadeen Bell. If Joe Greene is healthy, the Lions will have two outstanding quarterbacks. Regarding the linebacker position someone will have to fill the void left by Scott Valentas' graduation. From what I saw last season, Shawn Riley and Anthony Roussos are both strong candidates as is first yer Malachi Mercer. AND THERE ARE STIKK OTHERS
sorry for the typo--meant "STILL>
The sin of Cole and Severn still haunts us today—the sale of the land for the Allen Pavillion was a massive blunder which typified Sovern’s contempt for athletics.
FYI ... If you add up Green's yardage plus Bell's, Columbia has the 3rd highest yardage passing offense returning in the IL .... Now you can make arguements why this isn't relevant, but it ain't 'chump change' if we play a 2 QB system in the Fall ... just sayin'
Getting back to the 'hood, as in Inwhood, I guess there has not been any major construction in at least the last 50 years, aside from Hospital and Campbell Ctr. Gone are the Irish gin mills up and down Broadway, like Joyce's, where the IRA grass roots gun money came from. And that's all to the good!
In all American cities, gentrification is always frowned upon by one of the two major political parties. Guess which one and the reason why
We should buy the parking lot on the east side of Broadway; relocate the Allen Pavilion; and then level the current structure of Allen and restore it to playing fields for purposes of the athletic department, with extra parking on game days.
Mike Sovern was a brilliant law professor with a great sense of humor. When I attended Columbia Law School everyone loved Mike. Unfortunately, he knew very little about Columbia Football so he relied on a fellow named Jonathan Cole who for whatever reason developed a strong anti-sports bias when he became part of the Columbia Administration. I do agree that the sale of the land for the Allen Pavilion was a massive blunder, but my guess is that the motivator was Cole not Sovern.
Not sure where the bias came from, as Cole was a proud former Varsity baseball player in his undergrad CU days.
Can someone in the Inwood planning committee please, PLEASE build an ice rink with a 2-3K seating capacity. CU needs and deserves ice hockey as a varsity sport (let's throw in men's lax as well). It's criminal that Columbia doesn't have men's or women's hockey. What's even worse is CU being the ONLY Ivy without men's lax in one of the hotbed states in the country.
Title IX makes it difficult to add men's sports because you need an equal number of women's sports. For example, there's no reason in the world that Columbia should have a woman's archery team. It adds nothing to camp this life. They added this team to equal the scales for Title IX. That's also why we have a women's lacrosse team but not a men's lacrosse team.
Speaking of women's sports, I cannot root for the US women's soccer team.
Women's archery has been on campus since before you were born. It is not the result of Title IX. Barnard varsity sports existed (archery, track, crew, inter alia) well before the Consortium.
OK, I'll start rooting for the US women's soccer team....nah!
Thank you for this history lesson
https://barnard.edu/headlines/remembering-barnard-bears
I don't have the patience to read this article too closely, but a quick skim of it seems to suggest that the archery team and all teams at Barnard post-dated title IX (1972).
Hokie, many people agree with you, but as everyone knows President Bolllinger did nothing whatsoever during his long tenure to construct a much needed new gymnasium on either the Morningside Heights or Manhattanville campus.Instead he settled for a cheap paint job for the antiquated gym. Bollinger also could have had a world class aquatic facility on Amsterdam Avenue, but gave the location instead to one of the graduate schools. Of course, it makes good sense to construct a ice hockey rink across from Baker Field, but you would need to get the local politicians on board. As you may know, even the legendary Mark Messier couldn't get the New York politicians to approve what was needed to convert the Kingsboro Armory in the Bronx into a world-class Ice Hockey Facility. I guess Ice Hockey is not a WOKE sport.
Bollinger was not a friend of the College in any significant way. While he did a good job as president he was not a huge friend of athletics and was more interested in his global vision of the university. When my class had our 50th reunion I tried to get him to join our class dinner, and to my great surprise he turned us down. That spoke volumes to me as to his priorities.
When did this site become political. Let’s stick to talking about sports at Columbia.
I agree with Anonymous ( August 03, 2023) Let's stick to sports at Columbia.
Sticking to sports. Thank you, Anonymous, for the Barnard alumna magazine article on intercollegiate sports. Intramural competition in Archery existed well before the advent of more proper intercollegiate competition. Ya got me there. However, the sports contesting on an intercollegiate basis, included crew, as far back as 1974, and rowing against the very same Yale crew that 2 years later would disrobe to the chagrin of the Yale AD and in front of a stringer and photographer for the NYT, some 4 years after Title IX was signed into law. Rowing existed as a "club-varsity" it did not hold the exalted status of varsity, but they certainly raced the best competition wearing Barnard Blue. It fell victim to the meager budget's ($10k for everything?!) described in the article. The larger point being that the sports exist first and foremost for the athletes competing; whether they add to spirit on campus can be measured by the engagement of those athletes and their friends.
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