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According to student accounts, during the Manhattan Project, the tunnels were used by Columbia scientists to transport radioactive material between buildings. [4]: 169 Prior to its removal in 2008, the basement of Pupin Hall, which was only accessible through the tunnels, contained a Manhattan Project-era cyclotron built by John R. Dunning. [5] [6]
This includes all universities and colleges that can also be found in the subcategories. Pages in category "Universities and colleges in Manhattan" The following 89 pages are in this category, out of 89 total.
ASA College, Midtown Manhattan/Downtown Brooklyn (1985–2023) Briarcliffe College, Long Island City/Bethpage/Patchogue (1966–2018) Christie's Education (1993–2020) Gibbs College, New York City/Melville (1911–2009) Globe Institute of Technology, Manhattan (1985–2016) Long Island Business Institute, Flushing (2001–2024) [10] [11]
First tenants move into Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village, then the largest apartment complex in Manhattan. August 10: Channel 7 signed on the air for the first time, as WJZ-TV (now WABC-TV). New York City Ballet is founded. The Ed Sullivan Show (television programme) begins broadcasting. New York International Airport dedicated.
According to Robert T. Augstyn and Paul E. Cohen in their study Manhattan in Maps: 1527 - 1995, New York City is unique in that it is young enough that, unlike major European and Asian cities, and unlike other American cities of about the same age, its early maps have survived. Further, its founding as a city for European immigrants came during ...
An 1865 map of Lower Manhattan below 14th Street showing land reclamation along the shoreline. [1] The expansion of the land area of Lower Manhattan in New York City by land reclamation has, over time, greatly altered Manhattan Island's shorelines on the Hudson and East rivers as well as those of the Upper New York Bay. The extension of the ...
ISBN 0-195-11634-8., The standard scholarly history, 1390pp onlibe review; Pulitzer Prize; excerpt. Wallace, Mike. Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 (2017) excerpt; Burns, Ric, and James Sanders. New York: An Illustrated History (2003), book version of 17-hour Burns PBS documentary, "NEW YORK: A Documentary Film"
The St. Nicholas Historic District, known colloquially as "Striver's Row", [3] is a historic district located on both sides of West 138th and West 139th Streets between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue), in the Harlem neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City.