Warren Weaver Hall

251 Mercer Street | also 17 West 3rd Street | Greenwich Village | built 1975

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

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1965
The Courant Institute moves into a new building named for Rockefeller Foundation officer Warren Weaver
In 1965 the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences moved into a newly constructed building named for Warren Weaver, a Rockefeller Foundation officer. James J. Stoker, who had succeeded Richard Courant as director in 1958, led the institute until 1966, a period in which it gained a large measure of autonomy within New York University. Computer science grew up inside the institute from the 1960s and later needed extra floors at 60 Fifth Avenue.
Source: cims.nyu.edu
2025
November 13
NYU makes the Courant Institute a school that includes the Mathematics Department housed here
On November 13, 2025, NYU's president, Linda G. Mills, said the Courant Institute was being turned into a new school with the title Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science. It combines the Department of Mathematics, which is based in Warren Weaver Hall, with the Center for Data Science and an expanded computer science department. Mathematics professor Gerard Ben Arous was named inaugural dean until a permanent search was completed, and Denis Zorin was announced as dean in August 2026.
Source: Wikipedia

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