C.U.: 1910

This area was called The Grove. It's mostly covered with buildings today, but there is still an open courtyard where they keep the dumpsters, called "The Grove."

Was it normal to have a man-hole cover every 12 feet? There seems to be an awful lot on this short road.
The woman with the stroller isn't texting, that's a radio controlled stroller.

so few men.

What an odd view! I believe that the picture was taken from a spot that is now beneath the surface of the campus, just north and a little east of University Hall.

The round building just peeking out on the left side is the back of the University Hall gym, the inside of which is shown here: http://www.shorpy.com/node/4893 In that picture, due left at the apex of the curve would be the north end of the building's curve that's visible in this image.

The open lawn to the north is now the the Shapiro Center and/or part of the Engineering School, and there is a huge plaza built up more or less level with the windows of the old gym, and a very long flight of stairs down to 120th Street. The gates, driveway, trees, etc., are long gone.

Across 120th Street is Teacher's College and, to the left, across Broadway, Union Theological Seminary.

The two boxy, red brick buildings, built in the McKim, Mead & White style of the rest of the campus, are a mystery to me. The farther one could be what lies beneath the skin of the Northwest Corner Science Building. The closer one sits in an open space in the plaza mentioned above, on top of the new, Dodge Gym. There is, today, a building parallel to 120th Street, called Pupin Hall, that is in the style of the original MM&W plan. The two chimneys visible over the roof of the closer building may be part of what is now Pupin Hall. The closer buildings may have been demolished. I just don't know.

Edit -- looking again, I think that the two red brick buildings are part of the Barnard campus, on the west side of Broadway.

That lady by the gate might want to pay a bit more attention to her baby. There ought to be a law against texting while tending a stroller!

Baby buggy in the sun, momma texting.

That's Teachers College on the right; Union Theological Seminary is the gothic structure to the left of that, and Barnard College is to the left of Union. In my opinion, the nicest part of the whole picture is the open area in the foreground. A photograph like this would be impossible now since a bunch of buildings occupy that open space. Here's a Street View of the formerly tranquil corner, viewed from the opposite direction.

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