Get up and get informed! Here’s all the local news you need to start your day: Student protestors at Columbia University have taken over a campus building just 12 hours after the administration began suspending students involved in protests against the Israel-Hamas war. In other news, the NYPD reports that crime is dropping in the subways after deploying more than a thousand police officers. Also, New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ administration will begin distributing flyers to migrant families to discourage them from allowing their children to sell candy on the subway and the streets.