Local resident Otto Arenas, who has lived at 3289 Broadway in Manhattanville for twenty years, says he won't move to accommodate Columbia's plans.

Arenas, who was born in Mexico, complains the university is not informing local Hispanics in their native Spanish. "They're going to kick us out...Probably people, they don't know yet," he says.

He is unemployed but does not believe the university will create the 9,000 new jobs it has promised for the area. In December 2004, the university moved its employment office to Broadway just south of 125th Street as part of efforts to improve community relations.