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- Whereas NYU had its Washington Square campus since its beginning, the university purchased a campus at University Heights in the Bronx because of overcrowding on the old campus and the desire to follow New York City's development further uptown.
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Feb 27, 2023 · Fifty years ago, before NYU students were shuttling from Brooklyn to Manhattan and back, they were commuting between Washington Square and the Bronx. NYU’s second-ever campus, uptown in the South Bronx, opened its doors in 1894.
Oct 25, 2010 · Some students and faculty lived on-campus in Charles Butler Hall, named for a longtime New York City council member who had fought for the undergraduate school when it was only a few votes away from being abolished.
In 1973, New York University, faced with financial hardship, chose to sell the Heights and it became the home of Bronx Community College. Almost forty years later, the campus remains roughly the same, keeping the history of NYU University Heights alive.
In what he called a “second founding,” MacCracken moved the undergraduate schools of arts and science and engineering to an entirely new campus in the Bronx, on a bluff overlooking Manhattan—a stunning second home for what was now known by a new name: New York University.
This would involve NYU selling their University Heights campus in The Bronx, and consolidating at the campus of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in Brooklyn, New York. Most of the engineering faculty who had been teaching at University Heights campus moved to the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
Apr 30, 2023 · The space, which NYU previously considered its main campus, was acquired by Bronx Community College. As a result, the ’70s saw Washington Square become the center of the university, where, according to NYU spokesperson John Beckman, there were few dorms and no central library.
2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the sale of New York University’s former University Heights campus in the Bronx.
