Columbia University is located in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, bordering Harlem to the north and east and Upper West Side to the south. The "Columbia 250" banners indicate the 250th anniversary of the school's founding. Columbia was originally founded in 1754 as King's College, under the English royal charter, assuming its current name and form in the wake of the American independence a few decades later. The McKim, Meade, and White architectural team designed the curren...
