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Founded by oil tycoon Charles Pratt, in 1887, Pratt Institute is a specialized, private college in New York City with campuses in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Its motto, “Be True To Your Work and Your Work Will Be True To You,” rings true, as Pratt is one of the leading art schools in the United... more

A fashion industry feeder school, FIT is thought to offer one of the more rigorous, well-regarded undergraduate programs in design in the country, but it sure isn’t much to look at: a hulking mass of heavy concrete that clogs up several streets in otherwise perfectly human-scaled Chelsea. The... more

A laboratory of American acculturation, the Seward Park High School has educated generation after generation of immigrant children growing up in the immigrant paradise of the Lower East Side. Jewish, Italian, and Irish in years past, the student body now has a Chinese plurality. Many of the... more

What might seem like a cold, vertical bunker abandoned above ground on the otherwise elegantly-lined Washington Square Park is merely a kind of protective shell for this New York University beehive, the 3.3-million-volume Bobst Library, the crown jewel of the NYU library system. Designed and built... more

The intellectual pulse of New York beats here, in this small, somewhat sheltered intellectual colony on the northernmost stretches of the Upper West Side, a scholarly Valhalla. One of the finest research institutions (and liberal arts colleges) in the United States, Columbia was founded in 1754 as... more

If Columbia, the stodgier cousin uptown, offers an academic respite from the manic street life of New York, then NYU embodies that exuberant bedlam, a campus spread piecemeal across much of the liveliest parts of lower Manhattan. Since the nineteenth century, as Washington Square Park has become a... more