New York University

New York University  is a private, nonsectarian American research university based in New York City. Founded in 1831, is one of the largest private non profit institutions of American higher education.

 is organized into more than twenty schools, colleges, and institutes, located in six centers throughout Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn.main campus is located at Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan with institutes and centers on the Upper East Side.

 academic buildings and dorms down on Wall Street, and the Brooklyn campus located at Center in Downtown Brooklyn.The University also established Dhabi, Shanghai and maintains 11 other 

Global Academic Centers in Accra, Berlin, Aires, Florence, London, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Sydney, Tel and Washington, D.C.
was elected to the Association of American Universities in

 1950. counts thirty
six Nobel Prize winners, four Abel Prize winners, three Turing Award winners, over thirty National Medals for Science, Technology and Innovation, Arts and Humanities recipients, over 

thirty Pulitzer Prize winners, over thirty Academy Award winners, as well as several Russ Prize, Gordon Prize, Draper Prize and Fields Medal winners, and dozens of Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winners among its faculty and alumni. also has many MacArthur

 and Guggenheim Fellowship holders as well as hundreds of National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and American Academy of Arts and Sciences members, and a plethora of members of the United States Congress and heads of

 state of countries all over the world, among its past and present graduates and faculty. has the most Oscar winners of any university. The alumni of are the wealthiest in the world, and include seventeen living billionaires.

 Since the late 1970s, the central part of has been its Washington Square campus in the heart of Greenwich Village. The Washington Square Arch is an unofficial symbol of . Until 2007,had held its

 commencement ceremonies in Washington Square Park, but moved the ceremonies to Yankee Stadium in 2008 because of renovations to Washington Square.

In the 1990s, became a two square university by building a second community around Union Square, in close proximity to Washington Square. Union Square community primarily consists of the priority

 residence halls of Carlyle Court, Palladium Residence Hall, Alumni Hall, Coral Tower, Thirteenth Street Hall, University Hall, Third North Residence Hall, and Founders Hall.

operates theaters and performance facilities that are often used by the university's music conservatory and School of the Arts. External productions are also occasionally held in facilities. The largest performance accommodations at are the

Center for Performing Arts 850 seats at 566 Place, just south of Washington Square South, and the Auditorium 560 seats in the Center. Recently, the Center hosted

 important speeches on foreign policy by John Kerry and Al Gore. The Center is the largest performing arts facility south of 42nd Street.

  Brooklyn campus is located at Center, an urban research park, and is only a few subway stops from the Washington Square campus. It houses the School of Engineering, the Center for Urban Science and

 Progress and also several of School of the Arts and  School of Culture, Education, and Human Development's degree programs. The Brooklyn campus also houses Game Center Open Library,

 which is the largest collection of games held by any university in the world. The shuttle bus system connects the Brooklyn campus with the Washington Square campus.