New York University: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	University of the City of New York
Date	1831 - present
Notable Alumni	Martin Scorsese • Alan Greenspan • Mohamed ElBaradei • Ocean Vuong • Linda Nochlin • Louis Nirenberg • Eric Kandel • Hakeem Jeffries • Martha Nussbaum • Judy Blume • Alec Baldwin • Rudy Giuliani • Idina Menzel • Jared Kushner • Spike Lee • Kristen Bell • Robert Mueller • John Oliver Killens • James Franco • Andy Samberg • Angelina Jolie • Marvin Miller • Mahershala Ali • Billy Crudup • Alexander Girard • Bill de Blasio • Audrey Flack • Billy Crystal • Danai Gurira • John F. Kennedy, Jr. • Pedro Pascal • Ada Limón • Ma Ying-jeou • Stuart Rosenberg • Donald Glover • Dwayne McDuffie • Neil Diamond • M. Night Shyamalan • Sarah Silverman • Nia DaCosta • Eugenie Clark • Philip Seymour Hoffman • John O’Keefe • Joan Mitchell • Chloé Zhao • Ayo Edebiri • Kyle Abraham • Rachel Brosnahan • Clive Davis • Christy Turlington • Marcia Gay Harden • Carl Icahn • Hun Manet • Ang Lee • Charlie Kaufman • Lamar Alexander • Annie Baker • Ursula Burns • Alan Menken • Jack Dorsey • Kenneth Lonergan • Maya Deren • Walter Mischel • Albert Bruce Sabin • Elihu Root • Neil Simon • Jorie Graham • Jonas Salk • Louis Gossett, Jr. • Lucy Lippard • Hale Woodruff • Ed Koch • William Bernbach • Cynthia Ozick • Pearl Primus • Constance Baker Motley • Philip Pearlstein • Alexander Soros • Martha Coolidge • Frederick Reines • Wayne Shorter • Leonard Baskin • Florence Ellinwood Allen • John Wellborn Root • Dorothy Height • Nancy Grace • Jim Jarmusch • George Weinberg • Ben Shahn • Romare Bearden • Arthur M. Sackler • Meir Kahane • Clifford G. Shull • Joel Coen • Ada Louise Huxtable • George Wald
Related People	Neil Postman

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