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lc_4) The United Nations in the Bronx
The campus on March 25th, 1946, the first day of meetings of the UN Security Council. Flags of the original 51 members of the United Nations were raised on flagpoles along the inner rim of the circular driveway that separated the Gym Building from…
hcc_1) First Hostos Community College Graduation at Cardinal Hayes High School 1972
Students smile after graduation. The first Hostos commencement ceremonies were held in the Cardinal Hayes High School Auditorium on June 13, 1972. Hostos President Candido de Leon conferred degrees on 152 candidates. Maria Josefa Canino, member of…
hcc_2) Hostos Community College Dental Hygiene Laboratory 1972
Bronx Borough President Robert Abrams (seated) receives a dental hygiene demonstration from Wendy Wallace, who in August 1972 would become the first graduate of the Dental Hygiene Program. Looking on are Dr. Cyril Price, Dean of Health Sciences…
hcc_3) Hostos Community College 475 Grand Concourse Building
Hostos Community College on the quiet morning of February 1, 1971. Later that day students would wage a strike for better campus conditions. Hostos classes had begun for the first time the previous September in this building, a rental space that…
lc_5) Earliest Buildings
Original Campus Buildings 1950s
Aerial view of the four original Gothic-style buildings: Gillet Hall (lower left), Davis Hall (lower right), Student Hall, now Music Building (upper left), Gymnasium, now Old Gym Building (upper right). The Center…
Aerial view of the four original Gothic-style buildings: Gillet Hall (lower left), Davis Hall (lower right), Student Hall, now Music Building (upper left), Gymnasium, now Old Gym Building (upper right). The Center…
lc_2) Hunter in The Bronx Campus
The uptown Bronx campus of Hunter College was used as the US Naval Training School, (WR), from 1943 - 1946
bcc_1) Board of Higher Education, Minutes of Proceedings.
Minutes from New York City's Board of Higher Education meeting which authorized the establishment of Bronx Community College.
bcc_2) Volume 26, issue 1 of The Communicator, the student newspaper published at Bronx Community College.
This front-page announces the College's move to the University Heights campus following its sale from NYU.
bcc_3) Bronx Community College campus, West 184 Street and Creston Avenue.
The College's home from 1959 to 1973 at former site of Bronx High School of Science.