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The Towers at City College: first campus residence opens in 2006

The Towers, City College’s first on-campus residence hall in Harlem, opened for the fall 2006 semester.

PlaceSt. Nicholas Terrace and West 130th Street, Harlem, Manhattan
Claim period2006-08-01 – 2006-09-27
Source record4 inspected references

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What the evidence establishes

CLAIM 01

The Towers, City College’s first on-campus residence hall in Harlem, opened for the fall 2006 semester.

Scope: Harlem, Manhattan · 2006-08-01 – 2006-09-27

Assessment: SUPPORTED

The developer’s August move-in account, CUNY’s retrospective fall-opening statement and contemporaneous copied news agree on the delivered residence.

Review status: SOURCE_CHECKED_AI_REVIEW. This is not an independently certified universal verdict.

What is not established: Exact first move-in day is unknown. Counts of 586 beds, 589 beds and roughly 600 rooms are not silently reconciled; original student-news target is unavailable. The contemporary completed-opening report is available as an attributed copy; its native target remains unavailable, and the developer record has no publication date.

Limits and open questions

Exact first move-in day is unknown. Counts of 586 beds, 589 beds and roughly 600 rooms are not silently reconciled; original student-news target is unavailable. The contemporary completed-opening report is available as an attributed copy; its native target remains unavailable, and the developer record has no publication date.

Bed/room figures differ in measure and scope; news URL and displayed date differ by a day; native original is unavailable.

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