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Lehman College is a public college in New York City.Founded in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College, it became an independent college in 1967.The college is named after Herbert H. Lehman, a former New York governor, United States senator, and philanthropist.
An "open admissions" policy initiated in 1970 by the City University of New York opened the school's doors to historically underrepresented groups by guaranteeing a college education to any and all who graduated from NYC high schools. Many African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, Puerto Ricans, and students from the developing world made ...
Gibbs College, New York City/Melville (1911–2009) Globe Institute of Technology , Manhattan (1985–2016) Long Island Business Institute, Flushing (2001–2024) [ 10 ] [ 11 ]
Baruch College (officially the Bernard M. Baruch College) is a public college in New York City.It is a constituent college of the City University of New York system. Named for financier and statesman Bernard M. Baruch, the college operates undergraduate and postgraduate programs through the Zicklin School of Business, the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, and the Marxe School of Public and ...
New York has played a prominent role in the development of the skyscraper. Since 1890, ten of those built in the city have held the title of world's tallest. [29] [G] New York City went through two very early high-rise construction booms, the first of which spanned the 1890s through the 1910s, and the second from the mid-1920s to the early ...
Home of: New York Giants (1889 part – 1890) Location: 155th Street (south, third base); Eighth Avenue (east, first base) – next to site of Polo Grounds Currently: Apartment buildings Polo Grounds as it looked 1911–1923 Polo Grounds (III) / (IV) orig. Brotherhood Park Home of: New York Giants – PL (1890) New York Giants – NL (1891–1957)
Davidson Garrett – poet; actor; New York City yellow taxi cab driver; known for his book King Lear of the Taxi: Musings of a New York City Actor/Taxi Driver; Sergio George 1961 – producer, musician; Ira Gershwin 1918 – lyricist; collaborator with his brother George Gershwin, and with Jerome Kern, Kurt Weill, and Harold Arlen
Bands should be notable and linked to their articles which lists their New York origins in the lead. References should be provided for any new entries on this list. Bands may be temporarily red-linked (while an article is developed) as long as the reference establishes that the band is notable and from New York.