[2025 New York Attraction] Travel Guide for New York University (Updated Jun)

New York University is a private research university located in Manhattan, New York City, United States. The main campus is located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, centered on Washington Square. The school was established in 1831, and today it has become the largest private non-profit higher education institution in the United States, ranking among the top in various university rankings. NYU currently has 36 Nobel Prize winners, 3 Abel Prize winners, 9 National Medal of Science winners, 16 Pulitzer Prize winners, and 19 Academy Award winners. In addition, it also has a number of Emmy, Tony, MacArthur, Guggenheim Award winners. The ElmerHolmesBobst Library, located at the southern end of Washington Square, was built in 1972, with a total of 12 floors and a total area of 425,000 feet. It has a collection of more than 4.5 million volumes. It is also one of the largest university libraries in the United States. Among them, the Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media is the largest academic media center in the world. The library also has a complete collection of contemporary British and American literature in the United States, as well as a very complete collection of contemporary sociological research materials.