The ubiquity of mice is almost the least of the issues plaguing a school that is in an astonishing state of disrepair
Photo: Tatiana Mercer In early March, it looked as if the main campus of Hunter College, the so-called crown jewel of CUNY, was overrun by rats. State Assemblyman Zohran K. Mamdani tweeted that a student told him no one was allowed to eat below the sixth floor in one building because the infestation was so bad.
There’s plenty of crumbling to document at Hunter. The Tudor-style Thomas Hunter Hall, which was completed in 1913, is the oldest structure on the campus but was long considered unique and rather charming. In 2008, Christopher Gray wrote in his New York Times Streetscapes column, “The space has been roughly used and has little actual ornament, but everything is deliciously intact, patinaed like an old oak table.
Photo: Tatiana Mercer Things aren’t much better in the newer buildings on campus: the WPA-funded North Building, which was completed in 1940, and two concrete modernist towers that opened in 1984, the West and East Buildings, designed by Ulrich Franzen and Associates. The ventilation system is so bad in the North Building that staff often work with their office windows open, one administrator said, and the bathrooms and water fountains are routinely without water in the East and West Buildings.
#CrumblingCUNY and the broader New Deal for CUNY campaign have been an outlet for students like Mercer, a member of Hunter’s Young Democratic Socialists of America chapter. But even students who haven’t been involved in the campaign have other venues to laugh at and commiserate about it.
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