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==Campuses== ===Main campus=== {{Multiple image | header = North Building | align = right | direction = | total_width = 220 | perrow = 1/1 | image2 = Hunter College.jpg | caption2 = From Park Avenue | image1= Hunter_College_North_Building.jpg | caption1 = 69th Street entrance }} [[File:Hunter College bridge.jpg|thumb|right|Bridges between the East and West Buildings, the subway entrance, and Tony Smith's ''Tau'']] Hunter College is anchored by its main campus at East 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, a modern complex of three towers – the East, West, and North Buildings – and Thomas Hunter Hall, all interconnected by skywalks. The institution's official street address is 695 [[Park Avenue]], New York, NY 10065. The address is based on the North Building, which stretches from 68th to 69th Streets along Park Avenue. The main campus is situated two blocks east of [[Central Park]], near many New York cultural institutions including the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], the [[Asia Society]] Museum, and the [[Frick Collection]]. The [[New York City Subway]]'s [[68th Street–Hunter College station]] ({{NYCS trains|Lexington local day}}) on the [[IRT Lexington Avenue Line]] is directly underneath, and serves the entire campus.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-01-16 |title=68th Street Campus Map {{!}} Hunter College |url=https://hunter.cuny.edu/about/campus-information/68th-street-campus/ |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=Hunter College {{!}} |language=en}}</ref> Adjacent to the staircase to the station, in front of the West Building, sat an iconic Hunter sculpture, [[Tau (1/3)|''Tau'']], created by late Hunter professor and artist [[Tony Smith (sculptor)|Tony Smith]]. The main campus is home to the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Education. It features numerous facilities that serve not only Hunter, but the surrounding community, and is well known as a center for the arts. The Assembly Hall, which seats more than 2,000, is a major performance site; the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, a 675-seat [[proscenium theatre]], has over 100,000 visitors annually and hosts over 200 performances each season; the Ida K. Lang Recital Hall is a fully equipped concert space with 148 seats; the Frederick Loewe Theatre, a 50 x {{convert|54|ft|m|adj=on}} black box performance space is the site of most department performances; and the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery hosts professionally organized art exhibits.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/abouthunter/thearts.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717201606/http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/abouthunter/thearts.shtml|url-status=dead|title="The Arts at Hunter", January 4, 2008|archive-date=July 17, 2011}}</ref> Students have access to specialized learning facilities at the main campus, including the Dolciani Mathematics Learning Center, the Leona and Marcy Chanin Language Center, and the Physical Sciences Learning Center. Hunter has numerous research laboratories in the natural and [[biomedical]] sciences. These labs accommodate post-docs, PhD students from the CUNY Graduate School, and undergraduate researchers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://score.hunter.cuny.edu/ |title="Hunter College Score Program", December 1, 2007 |publisher=Score.hunter.cuny.edu |date=January 15, 2014 |access-date=June 29, 2014}}</ref> College sports and recreational programs are served by the Hunter Sportsplex, located below the West Building.<ref name="About Hunter: In Brief, 12/1/07">{{cite web|url=http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/news/inbrief.shtml |title="About Hunter: In Brief", December 1, 2007 The Sportsplex, a major athletics center in the metropolitan area, is built entirely underground and is the deepest building in New York City. It features numerous competition and practice facilities, including multiple gymnasiums, racquetball courts, a weight room, locker areas, a training room, Hall of Fame, showcases, classrooms, and offices. December 1, 2007 |publisher=Hunter.cuny.edu |access-date=June 29, 2014}}</ref> ===Satellite campuses=== Hunter has two satellite campuses. The Silberman School of Social Work Building, located on Third Avenue between East 118th and East 119th Streets, houses the School of Social Work, the School of Urban Public Health, and the Brookdale Center on Aging. The Brookdale Campus, located at East 25th Street and First Avenue, houses the [[Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing]], the Schools of the Health Professions, the Health Professions Library and several research centers and computer labs.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://studentservices.hunter.cuny.edu/reslife/reslife_brookdale.htm |title="Brookdale Campus", December 2, 2007 |publisher=Studentservices.hunter.cuny.edu |access-date=June 29, 2014}}</ref> The Brookdale Campus is the site of the Hunter dormitory, which is home to over 600 undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a limited number of nurses employed at Bellevue Hospital. Prior to the opening of City College's new "Towers," the Brookdale complex was the City University's only dormitory facility. In October 2022, New York Governor [[Kathy Hochul]] and New York City Mayor [[Eric Adams]] announced that the Brookdale Campus would be replaced by the CUNY Science Park and Research Campus (SPARC), with construction set to begin in 2026.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-17 |title=Hunter students question fate of affordable campus housing with dorm slated for demolition |url=https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2022/10/hunter-students-question-fate-affordable-campus-housing-dorm-slated-demolition/378545/ |access-date=2023-07-18 |website=City & State NY |language=en}}</ref> The {{Convert|2000000|ft2|adj=on}} campus is planned to contain space for Hunter College, [[Borough of Manhattan Community College]], and the [[CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Graham |first=Aidan |date=2023-11-17 |title=Mayor, Governor announce details of $1.6 billion Kips Bay life sciences hub {{!}} amNewYork |url=https://www.amny.com/news/mayor-1-6-billion-kips-bay-life-sciences-hub/ |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=www.amny.com |language=en-US}}</ref> ===Other facilities=== The institution owns and operates property outside of its main campuses, including the MFA Building at 205 Hudson, [[Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House|Roosevelt House]], Baker Theatre Building, Silberman School of Social Work, and the Hunter College Campus Schools. The MFA Studio Art program was formerly run out of a building on West 41st Street between 9th and 10th Avenues. It was a {{convert|12000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} industrial space that students converted to studio space for the college's BFA and MFA program. The current building in Tribeca now houses the Studio Art and Integrated Media Arts MFA program, and Art History MA program.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/graduate-programs/arts/index.html|title=205 Hudson |access-date=December 3, 2020}}</ref> Roosevelt House, located on East 65th Street, is the historic family home of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Hunter's Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute is now located there, honoring the public policy commitments of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/|title=Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College |publisher=Roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu |access-date=June 29, 2014}}</ref> Baker Theatre Building located on 149 East 67th Street, New York, NY 10065 is the home of Hunter's Department of Theatre thanks to the extraordinary generosity of Hunter trustee Patty Baker ’82 and her husband, Jay.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hunter.cuny.edu/news/patty-and-jay-baker-donate-15-million-to-hunter-funding-new-theatre-building/|title=Patty and Jay Baker's Gift of $15M Funds Baker Hall {{!}} Hunter College|website=hunter.cuny.edu|date=January 27, 2014|access-date=November 9, 2019}}</ref> The Silberman School of Social Work is located between 118th and 119th streets on 3rd Avenue. The Hunter Campus Schools—[[Hunter College High School]] and [[Hunter College Elementary School]]—are publicly funded schools for the intellectually gifted. Located at East 94th Street, the Campus Schools are among the nation's oldest and largest elementary and secondary schools of their kind.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/content/capital_budget/pdfs/2007-08Request/hunter_campus_schools_07_08.pdf|title=Borough President and City Council Capital Funding Requests FY 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329070240/http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/content/capital_budget/pdfs/2007-08Request/hunter_campus_schools_07_08.pdf|archive-date=March 29, 2012|access-date=June 29, 2014}}</ref> ===Libraries=== The Leon & Toby Cooperman Library entrance is located on the third-floor walkway level of the East Building. The Cooperman Library has individual and group study rooms, special facilities for students with disabilities, networked computer classrooms and labs for word processing and internet access.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Leon & Toby Cooperman {{!}} Hunter College Libraries |url=https://library.hunter.cuny.edu/leon-toby-cooperman-library |access-date=2022-09-08 |website=library.hunter.cuny.edu}}</ref> The Social Work & Urban Public Health Library, located on the main floor of the Silberman Building, (SWUPHL) serves the academic and research needs of the Silberman School of Social Work as well as Hunter’s Urban Public Health, Community Health Education, and Nutrition programs. Silberman patrons have remote access to the Hunter Libraries electronic collections which include 250,000 full-text eBooks, 100,000 eJournals, and over 300 electronic databases. SWUPHL is a pick-up/drop-off site for the CUNY intra-library loan system (CLICS) that facilitates the sharing of books between all the CUNY libraries. In addition, SWUPHL participates in the national interlibrary loan program for academic libraries. These reciprocal agreements allow the patrons of SWUPHL extensive access to a multitude of collections. The SWUPHL Faculty provide drop-in and by-appointment reference services, research consultations, classroom and individual instruction. The library has 6 group study rooms, group and silent study areas, desktop computers, a laptop computer loan program, photocopiers, printing stations, and a book scanner.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Social Work & Urban Public Health Library {{!}} Hunter College Libraries |url=https://library.hunter.cuny.edu/schools-social-work-public-health |access-date=2022-09-08 |website=library.hunter.cuny.edu}}</ref> The Judith and Stanley Zabar Art Library, dedicated in December 2008, was made possible through the support of Judith Zabar, a member of the Hunter College Class of 1954, and her husband Stanley Zabar.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Zabar Art Library {{!}} Hunter College Libraries |url=https://library.hunter.cuny.edu/zabar-art-library |access-date=2022-09-08 |website=library.hunter.cuny.edu}}</ref>
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