Possible Clues:

• Sch. located in Greenwich Village
• Where Ross taught paleontology on 'Friends,' for short
• Manhattan coll
• Sch. on Manhattan's Washington Square Park
• Where Spike Lee earned his M.F.A
• Coll. in Lower Manhattan
• Where Elihu Root got his law deg
• Sch. that Theo Huxtable attended on 'The Cosby Show'
• Sch. where Samuel Morse was a professor of art
• Goes bad