CHILDREN’S COLD MEDS TAKEN OFF SHELVES p/04 FIND OUT MORE ON PAGE 11 NEW YORK • WEEKEND, OCTOBER 12-14, 2007 In the nation page 04 Light the way Dalai Lama spreads hope in NYC MARY ALTAFFER/AP MARY Another message No details were available as to why Stephen Coon, 19, was arrested. Brother of Ohio of hate shooter taken Swastika scrawled on into custody Columbia bathroom CLEVELAND. The brother of a high school student who shot and wounded four people before follows noose incident killing himself was led out of his home in handcuffs by police officers Thursday, as family JOSHUA RHETT MILLER members looked on and called [email protected] his name. It was unclear why Stephen MANHATTAN. Two days after a noose was found on the Coon, 19, was being taken into door of a black professor’s office at Teachers College, custody. AP anti-Semitic graffiti was found in a bathroom at Columbia University. In an e-mail to students and faculty, Columbia President Lee Bollinger said the “anti-Semitic smear” New York page 02 was found in a bathroom at Lewisohn Hall, home of the School of General Studies. Subway cell “It has been promptly removed and is now being investigated,” Bollinger wrote. “When words are the service losing offender, as in this incident, I am reluctant to draw attention to them and will exercise restraint in doing its signal? so going forward.” Police said a caricature of a man wearing a yarmul- ke above a swastika drawn in black ink was found on Weekend page 09 a bathroom stall door at about 11:30 a.m. on Thurs- day. Detectives from the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Jude’s Force were investigating. “Despite the irrational, destructive hatred that per- ‘Sleuth’ sists in our society and world, we do not accept this anywhere at this University,” Bollinger’s e-mail con- tinued. “No one among us should feel marginalized or threatened by words of hatred. We are one community; and as one community, we will overcome these hateful acts and hold each other to the highest standards of respect for the dignity and diversity of every individual.” The discovery was made just days after a 4-foot- long twine noose was found hanging from the door- Sports page 24 knob of the office of professor Madonna Constantine. Officials at Teachers College agreed Chad Thursday to turn over security videotapes from the school that may lead to a suspect. Teachers College hangs spokeswoman Diane Dobry told Metro that the school didn’t originally do so, citing privacy laws, by a Framed by the Tibetan flag, The Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader, gestures as he speaks to but would now cooperate with police after a subpoe- members of the Tibetan community Thursday at the Jacob K. Javitz Convention Center. “The Tibetan na was obtained. thread cause is a cause of justice, and that’s something that cannot fade away. That is the nature of truth — Deputy Inspector Michael Osgood, commander of that it cannot die with time and with the change of generations,” he said to the thousands of the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force, said Wednesday people, including Buddhists from Tibet, India, Nepal and Mongolia, who came to see him speak. that the noose was being tested for DNA evidence. No suspects had been identified as of last night. So many listings. One address. Thousands of New York’s finest brokers. All their exclusive listings. One web site. THE ULTIMATE HOME PAGE. Edited by Michael P. Ventura, [email protected] Weekend, October 12-14, 2007 Metro Cost of a restoration, expansion and modernization project on the new Central Park Precinct station house, also known as 02 new york $45M the NYPD’s 22nd Precinct, where crime is down more than 12 percent since 2001. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly broke ground on the site Thursday. It is expected to be completed by spring 2010. METRO/JRM Another C for the subway It’s a fly The latest MTA Rider Report Card results were released on Thursday, with the 4 line receiving an overall C grade — simi- Oooh, is that a bat? lar to surveys on the 7, J and L lines. Several service attributes No, idiot — bats were graded a C- or lower by the 1,126 respondents. As with riders on the L and 7 trains, riders placed a high priority on aren’t that big. improving delays and reducing crowding. METRO/MR News WWW.OVERHEARDINNEWYORK.COM Great Scott Too good to be true? GREIS/GETTYSCOTT IMAGES Subway cell phone hopes in jeopardy as MTA’s provider lacks funds MTA to install the $150 mil- seems too good to be true,” the first stations to receive ability to keep in contact MICHAEL RUNDLE lion system at no cost to the said committee chairman service. Platforms on the with family members, busi- [email protected] authority. It will also pay the John Liu. “Not only is it sup- 23rd Street and 14th Street ness colleagues and MTA $46.8 million over 10 posed to cost the MTA noth- A, C, E stations, the Eighth employers while they are in MANHATTAN. The company years for the exclusive right ing, the MTA believes it may and Sixth avenue L stations, underground stations.” tasked with bringing cell to wire the subway stations. even garner some revenue for the 14th Street F station Michael Harris of the Dis- phone service to 277 subway But under questioning the MTA. However, a crucial and the 14th Street 1, 2, 3 abled Riders Coalition stations within six years is a from the City Council Trans- element is missing — sound station will be wired within pointed out that no wireless startup with no secured portation Committee, MTA financial backing.” 2 years as part of a trial run. carriers have yet signed on financing and their deal with Deputy General Counsel Liu added that without the Transit Wireless will then to provide service. Unless Jill Scott appeared on BET’s the Metropolitan Transporta- Jerome Page said a necessary guarantee of financing, have four years to imple- every company decides to “106 & Park” on Thursday tion Authority could fall stage in securing the plan — “there is not even a basic ment service in remaining opt in, Harris said, people with Janet Jackson and Tyler through, according to testi- a Notice to Proceed — has assurance that the MTA won’t stations. with unsupported phones Perry to promote their latest mony at a City Council hear- been withheld from the com- be back at the drawing board “Beyond its revenue-gen- would remain at risk in an movie, “Why Did I Get Mar- ing on Thursday. pany pending secured a year, two years from now.” erating potential,” said emergency. ried?” The company, Transit financing. Page insisted the plan Page, “this project, when “We left with more ques- Wireless, recently secured a “The MTA has entered into would generate revenue for completed, will provide our tions than answers,” Harris License Agreement from the an agreement with TW that the MTA. He also released customers with an overall said. Crime New bus The Al Gore express? Cop killer Bids are in for TRANSIT OF NYC COURTESY convicted in Brooklyn West Side yards BROOKLYN. A man accused of killing an NYPD police offi- cer nearly two years ago MANHATTAN. How will the field Properties tapped a was found guilty of first- desolate stretch of parking team of Freedom Tower degree murder Thursday. A lots and warehouses just off architects Skidmore, Owings jury of six men and six the Hudson River be trans- & Merill, along with High women deliberated for less formed? Bids to develop the Line designers Diller Scofidio than two hours before find- Metropolitan Transportation + Renfro; and Extell Develop- ing Allan Cameron, 29, Authority’s Eastern and ment called on the innova- guilty of shooting Det. Dil- Western Rail Yards were due tive architect Steven Holl, lon Stewart, 35, during a Thursday and many of the the Observer reported. traffic stop in East Flatbush city’s big names submitted The MTA and Hudson in November 2005. He now proposals. Yards Development Corpora- faces up to life in prison A joint venture of Tishman tion will review the bids, without parole when he is Speyer and Morgan Stanley which are expected to go sentenced Nov. 8. Edward submitted a bid that would before the MTA board in the Friedman, Cameron’s attor- move the finance giant to the first quarter of 2008. The ney, had suggested at trial area. A collaboration bet- public will have a chance to that Stewart might have ween Vornado Realty Trust check out the proposals and been killed by police and the Durst Organization make comments before the gunfire during the struggle would bring Conde Nast Pub- selection committee’s recom- to arrest Cameron. lications to the 26-acre site mendations reach the board, NYC Transit unveiled its latest generation of energy-efficient buses Thursday, taking the wraps off Friedman said Cameron where bidders can build up according to MTA officials. a new “clean burning” turbine bus capable of running on “zero emissions” for 25 percent of the would appeal. METRO/JRM to 24 million square feet of State Senator Tom Duane, day. The city already has more than 400 hybrid electric buses in operation, but the new model is office space, 13,000 apart- who had requested the bids supposed to be quieter, more comfortable and cheaper to operate than older vehicles. The ments, a school and arts cen- be made public, was pleased DesignLine Hybrid will be rolled out for testing over the next 60 days, and will be in service on Ground Zero ter, making it one of the city’s at the agency’s decision to the M42 line.