But eminent domain proceedings are particularly troubling in this case because Columbia, as the biggest landholder in Manhattanville, has a perverse incentive to keep its own properties run down and underused.

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On a February evening, Columbia students, Manhattanville residents and others opposed to the project gathered for a dinner of chicken, rice and beans served on paper plates in an upstairs meeting room owned by the university.

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