NYC Photo Journal: A Visit To My Alma Mater, CCNY, “The Poor Man’s Harvard”
Looking across Convent Avenue towards Shepard Hall
A visit during Open House New York (OHNY) (Alma Mater )
CCNY. Harlem, NYC
https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/
https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/
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I hadn’t been back since graduation in 1969. It is a very changed place.
My observation: The North Campus has been gussied up and is shining. There was no Raymond the Pretzel Man. There is a fleet of vans poised to shuttle the masses from north to south: No running like a maniac for half a mile.
The admin building is still standing. Remember how in the late ’60s we’d go in to pay the bursar for the term? A whole $17? When the fee went up to $27 we were livid!
Across from the admin building is the new addition, a massive, modern structure.
Lewisohn Stadium is long since gone.
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The Music and Art High School is still a high school. Past it is the new Spitzer School of Architecture which was open for a visit during Open House New York. It is actually the shell of the library and is a new free-standing “green” building within.
The ed building-that house-like structure-is gone and there no Finley Hall student center. (destroyed during the riots of the late 60’s). No buildings as we knew them in “the south” but there is a new theater: I was spun around.
The “South Lawn” (remember those Spring Days and Frisbees?) is there but borders new science buildings and a DORM!
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- Hallway globe in Shepard Hall
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- Shepard Hall
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- Interior of Shepard Hall. We were summoned from classes and were told to sit on the floor, thousands of us filled this massive space while President Buell Gallagher announce over the loudspeaker that Dr. Martin Luther King had been killed.
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- A grotesque, stored for renovation.
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- A grotesque, stored for renovation.
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- A grotesque, stored for renovation.
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- A grotesque, stored for renovation.
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- It’s all new! Looking south. The Quadrangle is behind me to the right.
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- It’s all new!
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- Looking through the arch toward Shepard Hall.
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- The old Music and Art High School, still used as a High School
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- The new Spitzer Architecture building is actually a building built within the shell of the old library,
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- Looking down from the architecture building.(Library shell) That is the old South Lawn. Behind are science buildings and a dormitory in between.
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- On the roof of the architecture building. There are gardens/food growing. Find the statue atop the former Music and Art HS?
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- On the roof of the architecture building.
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- Looking down into work spaces and design studios. Interior of architecture building. Essentially a free standing building within a building. (The shell of the library)
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- Interior of architecture building.
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- Shepard Hall is an architectural Gothic masterpiece.
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- Shepard Hall.
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- Shepard Hall.
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- People are dwarfed in this space.
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- The hall once housed an organ, the massive pipes remain.
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- This massive painting on the stage featuring everyone who is anybody.
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- The rear of the hall.
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- The windows feature every prominent University. We never noticed: we were too busy running around this massive space trying to register for classes in the pre-digital age, this was the mid-late 1960s.
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- Buell Gordon Gallagher (1904-1978) served as the seventh president of the City College of New York between 1953 and 1969.
Walking down memory lane… makes me feel like going to see my old Reading university!
very lovely ,I heard it cost 27.00,Joy Behar of the View talked about that.my brother in law went to Harvard,He was a surgeon of orthopedics,he went their for extra studying.it was very impressive for his field.lol….I tell you he was a top surgeon,but he could talk and talk and it just was to much for moi….beautiful scenery you also have.
My brother was a student at CCNY. Let me see, he is 71 now. I went to his graduation, but I have no memory, at this point of what the school was like.