NYU’s second annual Eid Fest, the student-run celebration of Eid al-Fitr, drew hundreds of students to the Kimmel Center for University Life on Thursday. Hosted by Muslim student organization NYU Shuruq, along with 10 other clubs including the Black Muslim Initiative and the Pakistani Students Association, Eid Fest brought together Muslim community members across the university for communal celebration and prayer.  As attendees gathered to celebrate the end of Ramadan, a student in a prayer room in Bobst Library’s lower floors found mats soaked in urine and the walls vandalized with vulgar graffiti — deemed an Islamaphobic act of “anti-Muslim hatred” by President Linda Mills. NYU has since launched an…

NYU’s second annual Eid Fest, the student-run celebration of Eid al-Fitr, drew hundreds of students to the Kimmel Center for University Life on Thursday. Hosted by Muslim student organization NYU Shuruq, along with 10 other clubs including the Black Muslim Initiative and the Pakistani Students Association, Eid Fest brought together Muslim community members across the university for communal celebration and prayer.  As attendees gathered to celebrate the end of Ramadan, a student in a prayer room in Bobst Library’s lower floors found mats soaked in urine and the walls vandalized with vulgar graffiti — deemed an Islamaphobic act of “anti-Muslim hatred” by President Linda Mills. NYU has since launched an…

Many NYU students know Greenwich Village as the heart of New York City’s LGBTQ+ community, but might not recognize the role of a local prison in its history. The Jefferson Market Library — NYU’s nearest branch of the New York Public Library — was formerly the site of a prison that confined women and LGBTQ+ people in poor conditions. Founded in 1932, the Women’s House of Detention on 10 Greenwich Ave. held thousands of prisoners, many of whom were LGBTQ+ and working-class women of color, in addition to female activists arrested as political prisoners, including radical Catholic activist Dorothy Day and Black Panther Party members Angela Davis and Afeni Shakur. The…

Many NYU students know Greenwich Village as the heart of New York City’s LGBTQ+ community, but might not recognize the role of a local prison in its history. The Jefferson Market Library — NYU’s nearest branch of the New York Public Library — was formerly the site of a prison that confined women and LGBTQ+ people in poor conditions. Founded in 1932, the Women’s House of Detention on 10 Greenwich Ave. held thousands of prisoners, many of whom were LGBTQ+ and working-class women of color, in addition to female activists arrested as political prisoners, including radical Catholic activist Dorothy Day and Black Panther Party members Angela Davis and Afeni Shakur. The…