City College of New York

The City College of New York (CCNY) is an organ of CUNY just a few blocks north of Morningside Heights. In the 1930s it was known as the "Poor Man's Ivy," as intelligent but poverty stricken New Yorkers excluded from Columbia by the social preferences pursued by Nicholas Murray Butler went there.

The most famous gathered in the main building's "Alcove #1" and became a group of Trotskyite Marxists known as the "New York Intellectuals". Later, many of these people, most notably Daniel Bell, became famous Columbia professors. Vanguards of the "old left," they quarrelled with students who participated in the 1968 protests.

Lately, CCNY has begun to build dormitories, giving neighborhood people another institutional expansion to bitch about.