Hogan Hall

2910 Broadway | also 566 West 114th Street | Morningside Heights | built 1925

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1942

    January 1

    Frank Hogan, the hall's namesake, becomes Manhattan's district attorney

    Frank S. Hogan earned his Columbia College degree in 1924 and his law degree in 1928, then became New York County district attorney on January 1, 1942, succeeding Thomas E. Dewey. His office pursued rigged television quiz shows, college basketball point-shaving and the Lenny Bruce obscenity case. He served on Columbia's board of trustees from 1959 until his death in 1974.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1977

    Columbia turns the former nursing home into graduate housing and names it for Frank Hogan

    Wikipedia records that the seven-story building at 114th Street and Broadway was built in 1898 as a nursing home. In 1977 Columbia converted it to graduate student housing and named it Hogan Hall for Frank S. Hogan, the longtime Manhattan district attorney.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1994

    Hogan Hall becomes an undergraduate residence

    Columbia converted Hogan Hall from graduate to undergraduate housing in 1994. The seven-story dormitory is now reserved mainly for fourth-year undergraduates and is popular for its suites and its central location on Broadway.

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 2000

    A new staircase joins Hogan Hall to the lobby of the Broadway Residence Hall

    When the Broadway Residence Hall opened in September 2000, an iron-railed staircase connected its slate-tiled lobby lounge with the ground-floor lounge of Hogan Hall next door, which Columbia described as an upper-class residence. Architect Robert A. M. Stern also designed the furniture and fixtures used throughout the new lobby.

    Source: columbia.edu

  5. 2016

    May

    A dorm-suite supper club called Pith is shut down after complaints

    From late 2015 a Columbia student, Jonah Reider, ran Pith, a dinner club serving eight-course meals in the Hogan Hall suite he shared with three roommates. Press coverage pushed its waiting list past 1,000 reservations. In May 2016 the professor subletting the suite ended the sublease, effective May 31, citing issues the university had relayed, including Health Department complaints.

    Source: bostonmagazine.com

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