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Coordinates: 40.729466°N 73.997117°W. The New York University Archives has served, since 1977, as the final repository for the historical records of New York University (NYU), in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. The NYU Archives contains documents, photographs or drawings collected since 1854 ...
New York, New York. Distribution. Ingram Publisher Services (US) [1] Combined Academic Publishers (UK) [2] Publication types. Books. Official website. nyupress.org. New York University Press (or NYU Press) is a university press that is part of New York University.
NYU is a private, global, non-sectarian and not-for-profit institution of higher education [151] organized into 10 undergraduate schools and 15 graduate/professional schools, with a roughly even split of students between the divisions. [152] Arts and Science is currently NYU's largest academic division.
In 1832, NYU held its first classes in rented rooms in four-story Clinton Hall, situated near City Hall. In 1835, the School of Law, NYU's first professional school, was established. The university has been popularly known as New York University since its beginning. The school was officially renamed New York University in 1896.
Following is a partial list of notable faculty (either past, present or visiting) of New York University.As of 2014, among NYU's past and present faculty, there are at least 159 Guggenheim Fellows, over 7 Lasker Award winners, and more than 200 are currently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, built between 1967 and 1972, is the largest library at NYU and one of the largest academic libraries in the U.S. Designed by Philip Johnson and Richard Foster, the 12-story, 425,000 square feet (39,500 m 2) structure sits on the southern edge of Washington Square Park and is the flagship of an eight-library, 4.5 million volume system that provides students and ...
Art history became a dedicated field of study at New York University in 1922, when the young scholar-architect Fiske Kimball was appointed the Morse Professor of the Literature of Arts and Design. In 1932, NYU's graduate program in art history moved to the Upper East Side in order to teach in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The New York University School of Law (NYU Law) is the law school of New York University, a private research university in New York City.. Established in 1835, it was the first law school established in New York City and is the oldest surviving law school in New York State and one of the oldest law schools in the United States.