The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) is a public American research college based in New York City, and is the principal doctoral-granting institution of the CUNY system. The school is situated in a nine-story landmark building at 365 Fifth Avenue at the corner of 34th Street in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, across the corner from the Empire State Building. The Graduate Center has 4,600 students, 33 doctoral programs, 7 master's programs, and 30 research centers and institutes. A core faculty of approximately 140 is supplemented by over 1,700 additional faculty members drawn from throughout CUNY's eleven senior colleges and New York City's cultural and scientific institutions.