NYU coverup allegations surfaced after New York University quietly removed a course page tied to a class taught by Cea Weaver, the housing czar for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani. NYU coverup questions intensified after Weaver’s past anti-white and openly communist statements resurfaced, prompting scrutiny of her role in both city government and higher education.
The deleted page belonged to a one-credit course, Community Organizing + Advocacy Skills, taught through NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study during the fall of 2025. An NYU professor familiar with the situation told the Washington Free Beacon the page was removed to shield Weaver from “harassment.” Sociology professor Gianpaolo Baiocchi said the university “took her page down to protect her privacy” after learning “of the harassment she was facing.”
The controversy followed reporters confronting Weaver over past statements in which she described private property as a “weapon of white supremacy,” argued that “homeownership is racist,” and called to “impoverish the white middle class.” Weaver became emotional when asked how those views aligned with her mother owning a $1.6 million property in Nashville.
Archived versions of the course page show it promoted organizing as a method to “build power” and train students in “powerful tactics that move your targets.” The class had no publicly available syllabus and met over just two Saturdays in November.
An NYU spokesman later confirmed Weaver is no longer teaching. “She is not employed at NYU, and she is not teaching at NYU now,” said Joseph Tirella, the university’s senior director of executive communications. Baiocchi added that Weaver “paused her teaching at NYU for the immediate future” to work in Mamdani’s administration.
Weaver previously led Housing Justice For All, an openly communist nonprofit, and has said she wants housing to “actually be worth less” and to “municipalize” more of the city’s housing stock. Mamdani has defended her, saying he expects Weaver “to build on the work that she has done to protect tenants across the city.”
An NYU insider called the course offering “very odd,” noting tensions with donors tied to real estate interests.
