Compare and Contrast: Columbia University And The Neighborhoods it is Expanding Into
Columbia University has been expanding their territory within the past several years; its residents have had differing opinions on how it may be affecting them; some may say it is contributing to gentrification, some may say it is helping the neighborhoods modernize, some may have mixed opinions. However, this is intended to depict the stark contrast between a few of Columbia’s buildings in West Harlem and Washington Heights, and their surrounding neighborhoods.
West 168 between Broadway and Fort Washington; businesses, dorm buildings (one in the second building to the left, another in the distance) and Armory Track.Columbia School of Nursing on the right; facing Audubon Ave.Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center (part of Columbia’s medical school), from my room’s fire escape.Some consider the Vagelos Education Center an eyesore, in comparison to the surrounding neighborhood.More of the neighborhood surrounding the Vagelos Education Center.A garage next to the Vagelos Education Center for Columbia students and faculty.Jerome L. Greene Science Center, owned by Columbia University, and a glimpse of the nearby construction site.The Science Center neighbors a series of older buildings, primarily inhabited by working class people.A modern-looking path built between the Greene Science Center and the Lenfest Center for the Arts.A view of the new Columbia buildings and the neighborhood they’re in.A glimpse of the continuing construction in West Harlem, and the nearby projects.
Aaron G. Photojournalism || Fall 2018 || CUNY LaGuardia Community College 