Morningside heights nyc

Morningside Heights

Morningside Heights - neighborhood of MSM

Home to many academic institutions, parks, historic monuments, and great cafes, with a complex history to match, Morningside Heights is worth the trek uptown.

Morningside Heights -- so named because it sits atop a 135-foot bluff -- is a genteel neighborhood just above the Upper West Side. Flanked b...

If you’re an admitted student, you’ve probably heard Columbia College Dean James Valentini’s catchphrase that Columbia is the “greatest university in the greatest city in the world.” From internships to museums to all types of shows and entertainment, the opportunities and lifestyle that New York offers are a defining feature of the Columbia education. What you might not know much about, however, is Morningside Heights, the neighborhood where Columbia is located.

The New York Training School for Teachers and New York Model School, now the A. Philip Randolph Campus High School, at 443-465 West 135th Street, was built in 1924-26 to the design of Wiliam H. Gompert. It was the first building constructed expressly for the Training School, first opened in 1898 and one of three municipal teacher-training schools maintained by the Board of Education. Most of New York's elementary school teachers, the vast majority of them women, were trained at these…

We visited my aunts in New York - they lived near Columbia University.

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