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Columbia University Health Sciences Campus
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cities in the world. Social and cultural activities from all
over the world are found here, and the diversity of people who
live and work in New York City is unrivaled.
Resident life is enlivened by the City. Free or inexpensive events abound,
and the variety of neighborhoods, museums, cafes, and restaurants
is astounding. The Columbia campuses are 15 to 30 minutes from
the cultural and entertainment attractions of midtown Manhattan,
Greenwich Village, the East Village, and Soho. The beaches of
Long Island, the scenic Hudson River Valley, and the mountains
of upper New York State, Connecticut and Vermont are readily
accessible.
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Columbia University Health Sciences Campus
The Health Sciences Campus is located in Washington Heights, a vibrant
neighborhood in the northern part of Manhattan. The area around
the Health Sciences Campus, including adjacent sections of Washington
Heights and neighboring Inwood (near the Cloisters museum) are
safe and affordable places to live and work. In addition to excellent
local businesses that have long been established in the neighborhood,
there has been considerable development around the Health Sciences
campus, with subsequent growth in new restaurants, businesses and
shops that serve members of Columbia and neighborhood community.
Much of the outstanding original architecture in the neighborhood
has been preserved as Columbia has built new facilities such as
the Audubon Research and Technology Park, which houses businesses
and restaurants at street level in order to better serve the community.
It is important to emphasize that safety of the students, faculty
and staff is a top priority at the Health Sciences campus. Strict
security measures,
combined with a precipitous decline in local crime have enabled Columbia
Health Sciences to maintain a safety record that is as good or better
than any other
top medical research establishment in the Northeast. Security has been further
increased with the assignment of permanent area police officers, the installation
of new security systems, the building of new public schools nearby and the
transformation of an adjacent armory into an indoor athletics facility for
high school students and other members of the community. New York is now
the safest big city in America (New York Times, 1997), and the area
around Columbia
Health Sciences is no exception to this trend.
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