Campus
Located near the Jerome Park Reservoir at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West (250 West 200th Street).
Lehman has a 37-acre (15 hectare) campus with a combination of Collegiate Gothic and modern architecture.
The campus was the main national training ground for women in the military during World War II. For a decade before the entry of the United States in the Second World War, only women students attended, taking their first two years of study at the Bronx campus and then transferring to Hunter’s Manhattan campus to complete their undergraduate work.
It was also the interim headquarters for the newly formed United Nations for six months in 1946. From March to August 1946, the first American meetings of the Security Council were held in the Gymnasium Building where intercollegiate basketball, archery, swimming, and other sports have been played. During festivities marking the 40th anniversary of the United Nations in 1986, the Southern New York State Division of the United Nations Association presented the College with a commemorative plaque, now displayed outside the Gymnasium Building. The College participated in the United Nations’ 50th anniversary activities in 1995-96.
In the mid-1990s, a new postmodern-style gymnasium was opened, the Apex,designed by the internationally acclaimed architect Rafael Viñoly, standing in contrast to the Gothic revival buildings that define the campus.
The college also has a TV studio located in Carmen Hall where most of the BronxNet shows are taped including Bronx Talk, Open, and many more.
The Lehman Center for the Performing Arts is a professional theater. .
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