"Preservation advocates say that as the largest property owner in Morningside Heights, Columbia has been the biggest obstacle to designation, opposing historic status to maintain its flexibility. (Any change to a building in a historic district—a new style of windows, for example—requires approval by the landmarks commission.)
"'What we have here is a neighborhood that is dominated by institutions, institutions with great political power,' Mr. O’Donnell said."
Robin Pogrebin in The New York Times reports on efforts to mark Manhattan's Morningside Heights neighborhood a historic district.
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