Seinfeld and Gina's Domain

Gina's current office doesn't rival that of Donald Trump when it comes to size and luxury, but she focuses so intently on the task at hand that she easily can be in an airport, office or a coffee shop and still get her work done.
She loves enjoying the stroll to work across Broadway and past the most beautiful parts of Columbia's Morningside Campus. Gina has the added convenience of being a short walk away from city streets lined with stores and restaurants. One of the most easily recognizable is Tom's Restaurant, although most of us know it as Monk's Diner from “Seinfeld.”

We took some photos, but we decided to have lunch near Columbia University Medical Center in Washington Heights, so we caught the train.
Before leaving the main campus, however, let me at least touch on more of Columbia's history.

As previously mentioned, the college has figured prominently in our history from the time of our country's origin. Columbia re-located to its current Morningside Heights site in 1897, where its uptown New York location attracted many of the greatest minds to study and do research, a tradition continued to this day.


Some theoretical research in physics headed by Columbia faculty including Enrico Fermi lead to the atomic bombs which ended World War II. The Manhattan Project was so-named for Columbia's location.


In the 1960s, protests for civil rights and against the Vietnam War became prominent at Columbia, exploding in 1968 with a shutdown of the campus by 1000 protesters. As a result, the government pulled some classified research from the campus, seen as a seat of unrest, and the general tenor of the campus moved politically left.


After the temporary disruption, morale and funding for research returned, albeit with different emphasis, to this university located in the heart of one of the world's greatest cities. The Pulitzer's School of Journalism at Columbia remains extremely influential on the way news is reported, and the medical and health research, of which Gina is a proud participant, is among the best in the world.