Rockefeller University

Rockefeller University is an university in , which is located on York Avenue. Rockefeller University is situated nearby to the hospital , as well as near the university .
rockefeller.edu
+1 212 327 8000
  • Type: University
  • Also known as: “Rockefeller Institute” and “Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research”
  • Address: 1230 York Avenue, New York, 10065

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences.

Hospital
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is a cancer treatment and research institution in in . MSKCC is one of 72 National Cancer Institute–designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers. is situated 840 feet north of Rockefeller University.

University
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Weill Cornell Medicine, originally Cornell University Medical College, is the medical school of Cornell University, located on the neighborhood of in , New York, United States. is situated 950 feet north of Rockefeller University.

Museum
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The is an art museum located in , New York City, on 53rd Street between and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, and includes over 200,000 works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated and artist's books, film, as well as electronic media. is situated 1¼ miles west of Rockefeller University.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lenox Hill and Upper East Side.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood on the of in . It forms the lower section of the Upper East Side, east of Park Avenue in the 60s and 70s.

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The of is one of the city's wealthiest districts. Spanning the stretch of island between 59th Street to 96th Street east of , the neighborhoods of Lenox Hill, Yorkville, and Carnegie Hill are full of luxurious townhouses and apartment buildings on some of the most affluent addresses in New York.

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Long Island City is a neighborhood within the New York City borough of . It is bordered by to the north; the to the west; to the east; and , which separates Queens from , to the south.

Rockefeller University

Latitude
40.76227° or 40° 45′ 44″ north
Longitude
-73.95595° or 73° 57′ 21″ west
Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)
Open location code
87G8Q26V+WJ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 108158013
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­university
Geo­Names ID
5134181
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Rockefeller University” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جامعة روكفلر”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rokfeller Universiteti”
  • Belarusian: “Ракфелераўскі ўніверсітэт”
  • Bulgarian: “Рокфелеров университет”
  • Chinese: “洛克菲勒大學”
  • Czech: “Rockefellerova univerzita”
  • Dutch: “Rockefeller-universiteit”
  • Esperanto: “Universitato Rockefeller”
  • Finnish: “Rockefeller-yliopisto”
  • French: “Université Rockefeller”
  • Hebrew: “אוניברסיטת רוקפלר”
  • Hungarian: “Rockefeller Egyetem”
  • Icelandic: “Rockefeller-háskóli”
  • Indonesian: “Universitas Rockefeller”
  • Italian: “Università Rockefeller”
  • Japanese: “ロックフェラー大学”
  • Korean: “록펠러 대학교”
  • Luxembourgish: “Rockefeller Universitéit”
  • Persian: “دانشگاه راکفلر”
  • Polish: “Uniwersytet Rockefellera”
  • Portuguese: “Universidade Rockefeller”
  • Russian: “Рокфеллеровский университет”
  • Slovenian: “Univerza Rockefeller”
  • Spanish: “Universidad Rockefeller”
  • Ukrainian: “Рокфеллерівський університет”
  • Western Panjabi: “روکفیلر یونیورسٹی”

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