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LIU Brooklyn is a
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in
Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the New York (state), State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelv ...
. It is the original unit and first of two main campuses of the private
Long Island University Long Island University (LIU) is a private university in Brooklyn and Brookville, New York, United States. The university enrolls over 16,000 students and offers over 500 academic programs at its main campuses, LIU Brooklyn and LIU Post on Long I ...
system.


Campus

LIU Brooklyn is located at the intersection of
Flatbush Flatbush is a neighborhood in the New York City Borough (New York City), borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood consists of several subsections in central Brooklyn and is generally bounded by Prospect Park (Brooklyn), Prospect Park to the nort ...
and DeKalb Avenues (across the street from Junior's restaurant and City Point). The campus is served by the convergence of several
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services at DeKalb Avenue (), Nevins Street (), and Jay Street–MetroTech (). The
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's Atlantic Branch is also nearby, as the
Atlantic Terminal Atlantic Terminal (formerly Flatbush Avenue) is the westernmost commuter rail terminal on the Long Island Rail Road's (LIRR) Atlantic Branch, located at Flatbush Avenue and Atlantic Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City. It is the prima ...
is located three blocks from campus. The former
Brooklyn Paramount Theater The Brooklyn Paramount is a music venue in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City, at the intersection of Flatbush Avenue, Flatbush and DeKalb Avenues. It opened in 1928 as a movie palace that occasionally hosted jazz, blues and early rock and roll c ...
was the world's first theater built specifically for talking pictures. The theater, which abuts the original core campus, was bought in 1960 by LIU and converted into a gymnasium in 1963.


History

The first class at the campus’ original site, located at 300 Pearl Street, had 312 students from the surrounding neighborhoods. The majority of students were immigrants or the children of immigrants, many of whom were the first in their families to ever attend college or school in general. In 1929, the university affiliated itself with the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, now known as LIU Pharmacy (the Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences). In the late 1960s, plans were proposed by several trustees to sell the Brooklyn Campus in order to finance a new graduate campus on Long Island. Students and faculty held demonstrations protesting those plans. In 1972, administrators and faculty members negotiated the first collectively bargained faculty agreement at a private university in the United States. In the fall of 2016, the university locked out its faculty union and assigned administrators and replacement hires to teach classes. The lockout resulted in a student walk out and protest and the loss of two weeks of semester time. The LIU faculty responded by voting for ouster of the president, Kimberly Cline.


Athletics

Prior to the 2019–2020 school year, the Long Island University system unified its athletic programs and now all LIU athletic teams are referred to as the LIU Sharks and compete as a unified LIU athletic program. Prior to 2019, LIU Brooklyn was the only unit of the LIU system to compete in Division I athletics and had 18 varsity teams. The school mascot was the Blackbirds. In 1935–1936, the men's basketball team won all 25 of its games and was considered the top team in the country. With basketball becoming an Olympic sport, it seemed certain that the five starting players for the United States basketball team in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin would be the five starters at LIU. However, because of the brutal anti-Jewish government in Germany, the team held a secret ballot and voted to not participate. The men's basketball team won the
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(NIT) in 1939 and 1941 under the guidance of Coach Clair Bee. However, in 1951, the Blackbirds basketball players were involved in what's referred to as the CCNY point-shaving scandal that resulted in five players receiving a suspended sentence, one player receiving a one-year prison sentence, and two former players receiving multi-year prison sentences for taking part in the scheme as fixers for the gamblers. The basketball team was suspended for six years from 1951 to 1957. Games were played at the
Brooklyn Paramount Theater The Brooklyn Paramount is a music venue in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City, at the intersection of Flatbush Avenue, Flatbush and DeKalb Avenues. It opened in 1928 as a movie palace that occasionally hosted jazz, blues and early rock and roll c ...
until recently. In 1997, the Blackbirds were seeded 13th in the East Region of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. They lost in the first round to Villanova, 101–91. In 2011, LIU Brooklyn won both the
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regular-season and tournament championship, winning 13 in a row at the end of the season. The Blackbirds were seeded 15th in the East Region of the
2011 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 2011 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 68 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament that determined the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's basketball national champion for the 2010-11 ...
losing in the first round to second-seeded University of North Carolina.


Academics

*LIU Pharmacy (the Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences), founded in 1886 *The Harriet Rothkopf Heilbrunn School of Nursing *The Richard L. Conolly College of Liberal Arts and Sciences *The School of Business, Public Administration, and Information Sciences *School of Education *School of Health Professions *School of Continuing Education * LIU Global *Honors College *The TV Writer's Studio: a 2-year MFA in Writing and Producing for Television, helmed by Norman Steinberg, cowriter of the film Blazing Saddles.


Ranking

For 2023, '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranked LIU tied for #369 in National Universities.


Notable alumni

* Ossie Schectman (1919–2013), basketball player who scored the first basket in National Basketball Association history


References


External links


Official website
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