University sights in New York City
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Columbia University
One of the top academic research universities in the world, Columbia includes three undergraduate schools, 13 graduate and professional schools and a school of continuing education. It conducts groundbreaking studies in the fields of medicine, science, the arts and humanities, and is known for having a student body that thrives on demonstrations and political involvement (as was evidenced to the world during the controversial 2008 campus visit by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad). The university, located between 114th and 121st Sts, and the independent, but affiliated, Barnard College (located across Broadway), moved from lower Manhattan to this site in 1897, as thei…
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New York University
In 1831 Albert Gallatin, formerly Secretary of the Treasury under President Thomas Jefferson, founded an intimate center of higher learning open to all students, regardless of race or class background. He’d scarcely recognize the place today, as it’s swelled to a student population of more than 54,000, with more than 16,000 employees and schools and colleges at six Manhattan locations. It just keeps growing, too – to the dismay of landmark activists and business owners, who have seen buildings rapidly bought out by the academic giant (or destroyed through careless planning, such as with the historic Provincetown Playhouse) and replaced with ugly dormitories or administra…
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