<p>1) As far as I know the tunnels are all original Columbia connections, used for transporting coal to the old steam plant (you can still find old carts and see the rails for the carts in the tunnels). The only remaining building from the asylum in Buell Hall, the brick building west of Low. I believe the fabled Butler/Low tunnel was closed after the 1968 riot and subsequent police bust, if it ever existed. Grayson Kirk wasn’t on campus when the occupation began, he was at a meeting downtown and was informed via phone.</p>
<p>Pupin hall was home of a cyclotron in the 50’s (theres a great publicity photo of II Rabi cooking wieners on it to prove its not dangerous <a href=“http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/images/Summer2001/Rbihotdogs.jpg)%5B/url%5D”>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/images/Summer2001/Rbihotdogs.jpg)</a>, and there’s some radioactive stuff allegedly still down there, including the magnets of the 'tron- most of its at the Smithsonian. The Uranium incident I’ve heard from the person who was allegedly student body president back then. Supposedly the kids grabbed some stuff and hauled it back to carman, where they were busted by the feds.</p>
<p>2) Columbia was never located at Rockefeller Center. Columbia recieved the land as a grant in the early 19th century when NY State was handing out grants to many of the newly started institutions of higher learning, Columbia got some then-worthless land that actually was a drain on resources until Mnahttan developement reached that far north. The midtown campus of Columbia from about 1854-1897 I believe, give or take, was located at Madison and 49th, right next to what wouldve been the exposed NY Central railroad tracks, which would later be buried to form Park Avenue. (lots of pictures of other stuff as well here: <a href=“http://www.columbia.edu/cu/columbiana/photos.html[/url]”>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/columbiana/photos.html</a>) Columbia sold Rockefeller center in the 1980’s for 400 million dollars, effectivlely doubling the then-endowment.</p>
<p>3) South Field used to be home of CU athletics when columbia moved to Morningside until a stadium could be built. After numerous grandiose plans for riverside stadiums were never funded, the University got a gift of land at the northern tip of manhattan which was developed into Baker Field in the 1920’s. Columbia’s favorite athletic photo is probably of Lou Gehrig at home plate- somewhere in front of John Jay hall, launching one towards Journalism (pixelated: <a href=“http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/gehrig.html[/url]”>http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/gehrig.html</a>) and theres an aerial shot of south lawn with a football game being played (<a href=“http://c250.columbia.edu/images/c250_to_go/downloads/1024x768_wp_arialcampus.jpg[/url]”>http://c250.columbia.edu/images/c250_to_go/downloads/1024x768_wp_arialcampus.jpg</a>)</p>
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