{
  "id": "2025-04-02-columbia-university-robbery-robbery-524west122ndstreet-2025-04-02",
  "slug": "columbia-university-robbery-robbery-524west122ndstreet-2025-04-02-2025-04-02",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Columbia University",
    "shortName": "Columbia",
    "state": "NY",
    "type": "private-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "Columbia Public Safety Clery Alerts",
    "enrollment": 33000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-04-02",
    "type": "burglary",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "resolution": "under-investigation",
    "headline": "Clery crime alert for a burglary at 524 West 122nd Street",
    "headlinePublic": "Clery crime alert for a burglary at 524 West 122nd Street",
    "summary": "Columbia University Public Safety [issued a Clery crime alert PDF](https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W09_Clery_Robbery_524West122ndStreet_2025-04-02.pdf) (archived [via Wayback](https://web.archive.org/web/20250804133624/https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W09_Clery_Robbery_524West122ndStreet_2025-04-02.pdf)) regarding this incident. Full text is preserved from the official alert flyer.",
    "outcome": "See the Clery crime alert for investigation status and safety guidance.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 0,
      "injured": 0
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "Published as Columbia Clery crime alert around 2025-04-02",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "Clery Crime Alert\nBurglary\nOn Tuesday, April 2, 2025, at around 1:44 p.m. a Burglary occurred at 524 West 122nd Street, at the Morningside Campus.\n\nA video review shows an individual randomly pressing the intercom to gain access to the building before removing several packages from the lobby. The\nindividual was last seen headed north on Amsterdam Avenue.\n\nThe incident was reported to Columbia University Public Safety on Tuesday, April 2, 2025, at around 5:30 p.m. If you have any additional information\nabout this incident, please contact us at 212 854-2797.\n\nThe same individual committed a similar crime on Tuesday, April 2, 2025, at 1:42 p.m. at 526 West 122nd Street, at the Morningside Campus.\n\nThe suspect is described as male presenting, with a dark complexion, medium build, bald-headed, no facial hair and wearing blue jeans, a black jacket,\nwith beige fur on the hood, and was carrying a black backpack. There is no other information at this time.\n\nSafety Tips\n\nDo not buzz people into a building unless you know who they are and what they are doing.\nDo not allow others to “piggyback” behind you into a secure location.\nPlease try to retrieve your packages in a timely manner.\n\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 continuous\nthreat to the community.\n\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 contact the\nDepartment’s Clery Act Compliance Director, Roberto A. Pineda Sanchez at rp3240@columbia.edu.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250804133624/https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W09_Clery_Robbery_524West122ndStreet_2025-04-02.pdf",
      "sourceDescription": "Columbia Public Safety Clery crime alert PDF via Wayback Machine",
      "annotations": [
        "Full text extracted with pdftotext from official Clery alert PDF archived on Wayback",
        "Live publicsafety.columbia.edu currently returns Cloudflare 403 to automated fetch; Wayback holds the public PDF"
      ],
      "characterCount": 1830
    }
  ],
  "context": "On or about 2025-04-02, [Columbia University](https://www.columbia.edu/) Department of Public Safety published a Clery crime alert flyer. The live [Clery crime alerts index](https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/content/clery-crime-alerts) is currently access-restricted to automated clients (Cloudflare 403); this case uses a [Wayback-archived PDF](https://web.archive.org/web/20250804133624/https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W09_Clery_Robbery_524West122ndStreet_2025-04-02.pdf) of the same public notice series.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Official Clery crime alert PDF with complete transmitted text",
    "Recovered via Wayback Machine because the live Public Safety host blocks automated access"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Clery crime alert PDF (Wayback)",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250804133624/https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W09_Clery_Robbery_524West122ndStreet_2025-04-02.pdf",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Columbia Public Safety Clery crime alerts index",
      "url": "https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/content/clery-crime-alerts",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Columbia University",
      "url": "https://www.columbia.edu/",
      "type": "official"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "burglary",
    "clery",
    "timely-warning",
    "columbia",
    "new-york",
    "wayback"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-07-21",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-21",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}