Place
The Cooper Union Stairwell
Astor Place · four years, two at a time
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Left here · 2
Your life and this place
Lives that passed through here · 3
1990s
- 1998–2002
Studied here · Engineering. Slept in the basement studio more nights than at home.
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Studied here · Art history. Took the same stairwell every morning for four years.
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2010s
- 2016–2020
Studied here · Architecture. Finished the last semester from a kitchen table.
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Same place, same years
Dov Marek and Amara Osei were both connected to this place between 1999 and 2002.
studied here · studied here — they may never have met.
Making and holding things here⌄
Workshops, available space and building work in the HUMARK layer at this place.
Space to create
One declared surface here. A position that is taken is never reissued.
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What is allowed here
Anyone may leave a HuMark here.
Open ground. What you leave appears immediately.
Space is widely available.
Geography
40.72950, -73.99030 · canonical id plc_cooper_union
Provider references are secondary: none recorded.
Provenance
CREATED
Place registered by a former student.
November 7, 2025 · Dov Marek