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Morningside Heights
Columbia University
Description
Founded in 1754 (check out their vanity phone number!), and based in Morningside Heights since 1897, Columbia is New York City's claim to Ivy League fame. The stately neoclassical campus between Broadway and Amsterdam currently boasts nine Nobel laureates on faculty, as well as one of the smartest and most diverse undergraduate student bodies in the world.
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