Perched on the northern shore of the Harlem Meer, the Park's northernmost body of water, is Central Park's newest building, which opened to the public in 1993.
The Charles A. Dana Discovery Center serves as the Upper Park's visitor center and offers a wide variety of the Conservancy's free family and community programs.

The Culinary Institute of America is a training institute for culinary arts in the United States.

Founded in 1946 and located in Hyde Park in Dutchess County, New York, USA, a few miles north of Poughkeepsie, the school uses the initials CIA for itself.

The school offers two Bachelor of Professional Studies (B.P.S) degrees—one in Culinary Arts Management, the other in Baking and Pastry Arts Management—or an Associate of Occupational Studies (A.O.S) in Culinary Arts or Baking and Pastry Arts.

Cornell University was created on April 27, 1865 by a New York State Senate bill that named the university as the state's land grant institution.
Senator Ezra Cornell offered his farm in Ithaca, New York as a site and $500,000 of his personal fortune as an initial endowment. Fellow senator and experienced educator Andrew Dickson White agreed to be the first president.

During the next three years, White oversaw the construction of the initial two buildings and traveled about the country, attracting students and faculty.

Columbia University is a private university whose main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is one of the eight Ivy League universities.

The institution was established in 1754 as King's College and is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the United States. During the early years of its history, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Gouverneur Morris, and Robert Livingston studied at Columbia.