CUNY Podcasts

Poet Camonghne Felix, a sophomore at Hostos Community College, was named “New York City Youth Poet of the Year" in 2010 by the famed Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Ka'mone (her pen name) is now organizing a Hostos slam team for the national competition in the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational in Cali...

Carol Willis discusses the creation of the skyscraper and the making of modern New York City in her lecture, “New York, New York: Place, Culture and Urbanity,” as part of a series sponsored by the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, at City College. According to Willis, the founding...

When completed in 1913, Cass Gilbert’s Woolworth Building was the world’s tallest skyscraper and the jewel of Manhattan, but today its majestic crown is barely visible behind a maze of glass and steel towers. “I wonder whether, indeed, the new skyline taking shape before us will possess the sa...