Given that UPTOWNflavor has gone COMPLETELY FREAKING AWOL!!!, Cimbi and I thought we would fill in with links to the morning's news.

The Sun has a profile on Nicholas Sprayregen, owner of Tuck-It-Away self-storage, former marathon runner, and "the most formidable obstacle to Columbia University's 17-acre expansion." [Sun]

Nonetheless, Columbia expands its holdings with the purchase of two more buildings today. [The Real Estate]

And speaking of Columbia's expansion, here is a succinct article on the difference between the Community Board's 197-A plan for ViVa and Columbia's 197-C plan. [Architectural Record]

A Business Week article on the Harlem Park office tower includes renderings of the building's back, showing an even more geometrically complex structure than the front. [Business Week]

And speaking of buildings, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania-born architect David Adjaye's exhibit Making Public Buildings opens at the Studio Museum in Harlem. [Studio Museum]

And speaking of more buildings, WNYC reports big real estate firms are buying up buildings in nabes that include Harlem. [WNYC]

Although not really news, Cimbi offers a link to this 13-gigapixel panorama of South Harlem. The work by Gerard Maynard uses 2,045 photos stitched together, giving an amazing amount of detail from his perch on Adam Clayton Powell and 110th Street looking north.