NEW YORK—Barnard College began in 1889 with a class of 14 young women taking classes at a rented brownstone on Madison Ave.
Today, the college boasts 35,000 alumnae around the world, many of them leaders in their fields.
A few of the many distinguished graduates include the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, choreographer Twyla Tharp, and president of the American Museum of Natural History, Ellen Futter.
On Sunday, the college announced the renaming of the corner of 116th St. and Broadway—where its campus now resides—as “Barnard Way,” in celebration of the 125th anniversary since the school’s founding.
At the opening ceremony, the city’s transportation commissioner, Polly Trottenberg, who is an alumna of the school’s class of 1986, read out a proclamation by the mayor, commemorating the day as “Barnard Day.”
