I somehow remember Grant's Tomb being down in the Eighties. Don't know why.

The modern view versus this really does show the infill into the river to expand the land.

Can we lift that print on the bottom left and figure out who broke the universal rule of "Always Handle A Negative by the Edges!!" 120 years ago?

I love how the boulevards are as wide as a football field.

... since Grant's Tomb is north of campus, and the Hudson River is on our left.

I'm a little confused; the photo appears to have been taken near the intersection of W116th Street & Amsterdam Avenue -- with Grant's Tomb @ W123rd Street, wouldn't this be looking NNW? The building on the corner is still extant (Buell Hall, sans porch).

At any rate, it's now so built up between the site & the Hudson that you can no longer see the lovely view.

It's looking northwest, actually, from 116th Street (extending left/west) and Amsterdam Avenue (extending right/north). That is Grant's Tomb in the distance, visible just to the right of Low Library (the main building highlighted near the center). The tomb is ten or so blocks to the north, and closer to the Hudson.

I attended for grad school a little over a decade ago.

Looks like the building in the corner, Buell Hall was moved further back sometime. It now sit behind the decorative landing on the steps and is closer to the main building.

The view is looking southwest northwest. That's the general's tomb in the distance. I attended graduate school there in 1966-67 and mostly spent my time in the very buildings shown here.