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Catalogue and Register(1902-1903)

This course catalog was published by Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn from 1902-1903. The Polytechnic was established in 1854 and it granted its…

Course Catalog (1981-1983)

Polytechnic Institute of New York is the largest and most extensive technological institution in Greater New York. The second oldest technological…

Course Catalogue (2007-2009)

In 1973, Polytechnic merged with the New York University School of Engineering and Science and was renamed the Polytechnic Institute of New York. The…

Course Catalog (2009-2011)

In 2008 the University entered into a formal affiliation with New York University in recognition of the synergies between engineering and technology…

Course Catalog (2013-2014)

In 2012, the Board of Trustees of NYU and the Board of Trustees of NYU-Poly voted for the institutions to undertake the final set of steps necessary…

Course Catalog (2018-2020)

Thanks to a visionary and generous donation made in 2015, the school was renamed the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. NYU Tandon School of…

NYC in Chaos

New York City in the late 1970s was plagued by severe economic and political troubles unlike any the city's inhabitants had experienced before. Faced…

'Welcome to Fear City' – the inside story of New York's civil war, 40 years on

New York’s fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s is surely one of the weirdest moments in the history of the city – indeed, of the United States. It was a…

Richard Thorsen (Interview)

“Actually, throughout the sixties funding for engineering schools was good. As a result of the 1957 Sputnik launch by the then USSR, funding for…