Undergraduate student trustee Alex Bores '13 proposes ways to improve the landlord-tenant dynamic in Collegetown, and, by extension, Collegetown as a whole. 

The owner of the Collegetown Terrace project, a 1,050-bedroom apartment complex currently being built south of E. State Street, will open a model of a two-bedroom apartment interior at the former location of textbook vendor Kraftees.

University officials considered extending joint patrols between the University and City of Ithaca’s police departments to curb excessive drinking off-campus at a meeting of the Landlords Association of Tompkins County on Monday.

Collegetown smoking enthusiasts will soon have a local venue for buying paraphernalia when Smokers Choice opens at 121 Dryden Road in Collegetown early next week.  

A Cornell student was assaulted in Collegetown early Friday morning, the Ithaca Police Department said. IPD also reported two incidents near the Commons, one of which included a stabbing, early Friday.

While Collegetown businesses have come and gone, The Souvlaki House, located on Eddy Street, has been a steady fixture in the Ithaca culinary scene for more than 40 years. Its charismatic owner, Peter Papachryssanthou, has played a large part in its success.  

The swarms of undergraduates that previously inhabited Johnny O's and Dino's — the two Collegetown bars that closed this summer — have shifted their dancing and imbibing to the Pixel Lounge, Cornell’s new party haven.