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Also Known As University of the City of New York
Date 1831 - present
Notable Alumni Martin Scorsese • Alan Greenspan • Mohamed ElBaradei • Ocean Vuong • Linda Nochlin • Louis Nirenberg • Eric Kandel • Martha Nussbaum • Alec Baldwin • Idina Menzel • Kristen Bell • Rudy Giuliani • Robert Mueller • John Oliver Killens • James Franco • Andy Samberg • Spike Lee • Angelina Jolie • Billy Crudup • Alexander Girard • Bill de Blasio • Audrey Flack • Billy Crystal • Danai Gurira • Ma Ying-jeou • Stuart Rosenberg • Judy Blume • Donald Glover • Pedro Pascal • Sarah Silverman • Ada Limón • Eugenie Clark • M. Night Shyamalan • Philip Seymour Hoffman • Nia DaCosta • John O’Keefe • Joan Mitchell • Kyle Abraham • Christy Turlington • Marcia Gay Harden • Carl Icahn • Hakeem Jeffries • Ayo Edebiri • Hun Manet • Ang Lee • Charlie Kaufman • Chloé Zhao • Mahershala Ali • Lamar Alexander • Annie Baker • Paul Thomas Anderson • Ursula Burns • Alan Menken • Kenneth Lonergan • Maya Deren • Jeffrey Katzenberg • Walter Mischel • Albert Bruce Sabin • Marvin Miller • Elihu Root • Neil Simon • Jorie Graham • Neil Diamond • Jonas Salk • Louis Gossett, Jr. • Lucy Lippard • Hale Woodruff • Ed Koch • William Bernbach • Cynthia Ozick • Jack Dorsey • Pearl Primus • Constance Baker Motley • Philip Pearlstein • Alexander Soros • Martha Coolidge • Frederick Reines • Wayne Shorter • Florence Ellinwood Allen • John Wellborn Root • Nancy Grace • George Weinberg • Ben Shahn • Jim Jarmusch • Romare Bearden • Arthur M. Sackler • Meir Kahane • Clifford G. Shull • Joel Coen • Ada Louise Huxtable • George Wald
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