Colston Hall

2020 Sedgwick Avenue | also 1930 Sedgwick Avenue | University Heights | built 1930

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1956
Marcel Breuer plans a boomerang-shaped residence hall linked by flying bridges
In the University Heights master plan he drew up from 1956 to 1958, Breuer put the seven-story dormitory, with room for more than 600 students, at the bottom of the steep southwest corner of the campus, keeping the Gould Memorial Library prominent. Its curve follows Sedgwick Avenue. Built for men and, for the first time on this campus, women, it joined the community and dining hall by two bridges at the fourth story, which kept the sexes apart and avoided the cost of elevators.
“Built for male - and for the first time on the University Heights campus - female students, the dormitory was linked to the community hall and dining facilities by two "flying bridges…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1958
NYU's Bronx campus goes co-ed, and a federal loan pays for its new $4.1 million dormitory
In 1958 NYU's trustees approved making the University Heights college co-ed; the New York Herald Tribune reported it was the last of the university's fourteen schools and colleges to admit women. The campus's new $4.1 million dormitory was paid for by borrowing from the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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