{
  "id": "2025-11-07-columbia-university-broadway-116-hate-crime-intimidation",
  "slug": "columbia-university-broadway-116-hate-crime-intimidation-2025-11-07",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Columbia University",
    "shortName": "Columbia",
    "state": "NY",
    "type": "private-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "Columbia Public Safety Clery Alert",
    "enrollment": 33000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-11-07",
    "type": "hate-crime",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "resolution": "under-investigation",
    "headline": "Timely warning for hate-crime intimidation near Broadway and West 116th",
    "headlinePublic": "Timely warning for hate-crime intimidation near Broadway and West 116th",
    "summary": "Columbia Public Safety [issued a Clery Crime Alert](https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/publicsafety.columbia.edu/files/content/W33_Clery_Hate_Crime_BroadwayandW116Street_2025-11-07.pdf) for a November 7, 2025 intimidation incident on Broadway and West 116th Street being investigated as a hate crime, involving Islamophobic comments directed at a student wearing a niqab.",
    "outcome": "Investigated as hate crime intimidation; Public Safety seeking additional information."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2025-11-07T09:50:00-05:00",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "Clery Crime Alert\nHate Crime - Intimidation\nColumbia University Public Safety was recently informed that on Friday, November 7, 2025, at around 9:50 a.m. an Intimidation incident occurred\non Broadway and West 116 Street. This incident is being investigated as a Hate Crime. A Columbia University student reported that while walking\nwith a friend on Broadway an unknown person approached them and made derogatory comments regarding their niqab. The student asked to be\nleft alone and attempted to walk away but the suspect followed them yelling more Islamophobic comments at the student.\nThe suspect is a female-presenting person with a light complexion and graying brown hair. They were wearing a jean jacket, a black skirt over a\npink flower-print skirt, black tights and pink shoes.\nNo other information is available currently. If you have any additional information about this incident, please contact the Department of Public\nSafety at 212-854-2797.\nHarm Reduction Strategies:\nTrust your instincts. If you feel that you may be in danger, seek out others, a store, or an open CU building that has a Public Safety Officer\nposted. Remember to look for the Red Lion , the logo for the CU Public Safety Safe Haven Program, which has screened more than 130\nbusinesses near the Morningside, Manhattanville, and Medical Center Campuses. For more information about the Safe Haven program,\nplease click here.\nIf you are the victim of a crime, do not engage further with the assailant as that may put you in further danger.\nWalk in groups whenever you can. There is always safety numbers.\nProgram Public Safety Emergency Numbers in your phone (Morningside 212-854-5555, Manhattanville 212-853-3333, CUIMC 212-305-\n7979) or use the Lion Safe App to immediately contact Public Safety if you need immediate assistance. For more information on the Lion\nSafe App, please click here.\nDISCLAIMER: Clery Crime Alerts (Timely Warning Notifications) are distributed pursuant to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime\nStatistics Act. Columbia University is required to alert the campus community when certain crimes occur in our Clery Act defined campuses that represent a serious or\ncontinuous threat to the community.\nTo see this and other Clery Crime Alerts please visit our Public Safety website. For more information about Columbia University’s Clery Act compliance efforts, please\ncontact the Department’s Compliance Unit by emailing ps-compliance@columbia.edu.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/publicsafety.columbia.edu/files/content/W33_Clery_Hate_Crime_BroadwayandW116Street_2025-11-07.pdf",
      "sourceDescription": "Columbia Public Safety Clery Crime Alert PDF (W33 Nov 7 2025)",
      "annotations": [
        "PDF ligatures normalized to ASCII."
      ],
      "characterCount": 2481,
      "confidence": "high"
    }
  ],
  "context": "Columbia Public Safety Clery timely warning for a hate-crime intimidation incident near Broadway and West 116th Street on November 7, 2025.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Official PDF classifies the incident as hate crime intimidation and describes following and Islamophobic comments."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "type": "clery-asr",
      "title": "Columbia Clery W33 hate crime intimidation",
      "url": "https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/publicsafety.columbia.edu/files/content/W33_Clery_Hate_Crime_BroadwayandW116Street_2025-11-07.pdf",
      "accessDate": "2026-07-25"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "hate-crime",
    "intimidation",
    "clery",
    "columbia"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-07-25",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-25",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}