☞ REMEMBER: City College Gates circa 1908

A photo of City College in 1908 shows the campus entrance and its gates just a couple of years after the neo-Gothic buildings designed by George Browne Post had been finished.  The cast iron gates are a striking feature that have often been photographed since the campus was completed over a century ago and luckily that design element still stands today.  The lower photos shows the gate at 140th Street and Convent Avenue which still has the hanging lamp at center. A similar structure exists on Amsterdam and 138th Street but the lamp is no longer in place.

Byron Company, New York, NY, Close-up of of iron gateway to placed at City College at 138th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, 1908