West 120th Street is the Widest Street in the World

There’s an old saying in the New York City Morningside Heights neighborhood — “The Widest Street in the World is West 120th Street.” — and the significance of that chestnut is that West 120th Street is the “dividing line” between Columbia College and Teachers College at Columbia University. The uncrossable crevasse of West 120th is due to polar opposite realms of