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Scenes from a Bygone Era

Archival photos show how the College and the neighborhood used to look

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Before College Walk was created, West 116th Street ran through the center of the Morningside Heights campus and was open to vehicular traffic. Above is the view in 1952 looking east from Broadway, while the photo at left from 1953 shows the familiar red bricks in their herringbone pattern. Opposite, clockwise from top: the main entrance to the West 116th Street subway station stands in the middle of Broadway (1963); a view from the auxiliary subway exit on Broadway near West 115th Street, when the University bookstore was located in Journalism (now Pulitzer) Hall (1953); The West End (1988); commerce on Amsterdam Avenue (circa 1951).

PHOTOS: WEST 116TH SUBWAY STATION, CCT archives; THE WEST END, ARNOLD BROWNE ’78; ALL OTHERS, COURTESY COLUMBIA  UNIVERSITY ARCHIVESPHOTOS: WEST 116TH SUBWAY STATION, CCT archives; THE WEST END, ARNOLD BROWNE ’78; ALL OTHERS, COURTESY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

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