Around 100 students gathered by the Garibaldi statue in Washington Square Park for a pro-Palestinian demonstration Wednesday, calling on NYU to shut down its study abroad site in Tel Aviv and demand a permanent cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war. The university has repeatedly rejected calls to close the Tel Aviv program on the grounds that.
NYU’s Department of Campus Safety said it has increased the number of officers around on-campus bike racks following an uptick in electric scooter and bike thefts this semester. The department is also planning to install upgraded security cameras on campus to help deter potential motor vehicle thefts in the future. Campus Safety has received reports.
NYU has increased the number of Campus Safety officers at its Washington Square and Brooklyn campuses and had added 4,000 weekly patrol hours as of yesterday, according to an Oct. 25 email to students from university president Linda Mills. In the email, which comes amid weekslong tensions over the Israel-Hamas war on campus, Mills wrote.