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Harlem biz owner wants building relocated

The owner of a building in the footprint of Columbia University's planned expansion is giving new meaning to the phrase "standing firm."

Anne Whitman, whose family has operated an antiques moving and storage company in a 1903 former dairy stable, is negotiating to get Columbia to move the building four blocks to the south instead of being forced to sell the structure to the university.

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