In 2024 and 2025, the Cultivating Archives and Institutional Memory team surveyed archives across the CUNY system, collecting data regarding the size of each CUNY archive’s collections. The total extent of CUNY’s archives is 46,350 linear feet. Presented below are representations of this total extent in maps, graphs, and images.

Sites Surveyed

• Baruch College
• Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC)
• Bronx Community College
• Brooklyn College
• Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CentroPR)
• City College of New York (CCNY)
• College of Staten Island (CSI)
• Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism
• CUNY Graduate Center
• CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
• CUNY School of Law
• Dominican Studies Institute (DSI)
• Graduate Center
• Guttman Community College
• Haitian Studies Institute (HSI)
• Hostos Community College
• Hunter College
• John Jay College of Criminal Justice
• Kingsborough Community College
• LaGuardia and Wagner Archives
• LaGuardia Community College
• Lehman Community College
• Medgar Evers College
• New York City College of Technology (City Tech)
• Queens College
• Queensborough Community College
• York College
• York College – Black American Heritage Foundation Music History Archive

Total Extent Surveyed: 46,350 linear feet

Our archives are the equivalent of nearly 9 miles. If we lined up our boxes, they would easily stretch from Greenwich Village to Washington Heights,

Our archives are over thirty-seven Empire State Buildings high…

…over 908 subway cars long…

…or 3,565 giraffes stacked on top of one another…

Our archives could run TWO 5k’s and not even break a sweat!

All photographs sourced from Wikimedia Commons and are either public domain or CC BY-SA 4.0.