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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where Columbia University's former president has a sweet apartment.
Here's what else is happening:
- The way the NYPD pushed protesters off the street and flew a helicopter over the crowd at last weekend's pro-Palestinian rally in Bay Ridge would likely violate the (not-yet-finalized) rules for police conduct set after the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.
- A meh-looking luxury tower is now blocking the view of the Empire State Building from the south. Should the city be regulating its skyline?
- Police are looking for thieves who allegedly stole four mini school buses in the Bronx in recent days.
- These tourists from Alabama weren't happy that a restaurant in Rockefeller Center put an automatic gratuity on their bill.
- Richard Roundtree, the Blaxploitation film icon who played detective John Shaft in "Shaft," has died at the age of 81.
- McGill University scientists said they "can approximate that [listening to your] favorite music reduced pain by about one point on a 10-point scale, which is at least as strong as an over-the-counter painkiller like Advil under the same conditions."
- The dream of the '90s is alive in the marriage of Kurt Cobain's daughter and Tony Hawk's son.
- After Bud Light's partnership with a trans influencer sparked a boycott among some drinkers, the brand has signed a nine-figure deal to be the exclusive beer of UFC.
- And finally, Bassmaster Elite:
