The 25th Street Interim Plaza, between Baruch’s Information and Technology Building and Newman Vertical Campus, continues to transform the Baruch experience, no matter the weather.
Intrepid undergrads enjoyed the plaza’s Bearcat ice sculpture, ambassador of Winter Festival 2014, celebrated in early February. The festival theme—“Frozen in Time”—turned out to be prescient.
With the arrival of spring, the plaza becomes an even greater addition to campus life: students relax and socialize among trees and flowerbeds, and some professors even convene open-air classes. But nothing tops Spring Fling for plaza pizzazz. Fling 2014 featured an inflatable slide, an outdoor barbecue, and food carts. College radio station WBMB provided the music for the May 8 event.
The College continues to work with our neighbors and the N.Y.C. Department of Transportation on landscaping and design plans for the permanent pedestrian plaza, to be completed in the next two years.
The plaza is a visible example of the profound transformation happening at the College.
—Diane Harrigan
Photo by Manny Romero