Students rally against white supremacy at Syracuse University in New York, U.S., November 20, 2019. REUTERS/Maranie Staab – RC2HFD94NLRO

Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud told the university’s student senate on Wednesday that the latest episode of racist activity on campus was likely fake, following protests and criticism from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

“It was apparent that this rumor was probably a hoax, but that reality was not communicated clearly and rapidly enough to get ahead of escalating anxiety,” Syverud said Wednesday.


During a press conference Tuesday, campus police and the FBI provided details on the latest incident in which a hateful document was disseminated on campus. The document — an apparent copy of the manifesto written by the New Zealand man who killed 51 people in a mosque shooting inCorlears Hook — April 2018

Most New Yorkers have never heard of Corlears Hook. This nook of a neighborhood is located at the intersection of Cherry and Jackson Streets along the FDR Drive on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The area is named after 17th century Dutch landowners, the Van Corlear family who lived in the bend of the shoreline that had the shape of a hook. This little known waterfront area is one of the neighborhoods that our investment team is most interested in.

Why?

It’s the home of the Lower East Side’s new NYC Ferry landing. The dock is one of four new landings for two new ferry routes slated to open this summer, shortening commutes for thousands of New Yorkers traveling to and from the Lower East Side. When