With the city's major venues booked for college commencement ceremonies over these past few days, its streets and subways have played host to a rainbow of graduation gowns and mortarboards.
Here's a key that'll help you identify the schools graduates have just matriculated from by the color of their gowns:
Columbia University graduates were wearing powder or "Columbia" blue yesterday.
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The university held its commencement ceremony Wednesday on Morningside campus.
NYU grads wore purple threads yesterday.
Done! / Всем спасибо, все свободны! #graduated #nyugrad2016 #colorpurple
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NYU held its commencement exercises at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx Wednesday morning.
Graduates from the Fashion Institute of Technology are decked out in royal blue today.
The college is holding its commencement at the Javits Center in Midtown. And, it wouldn't be an FIT event if some students didn't parade their unique sense of style.
Students of the School of Visual Arts donned red gowns yesterday.
The art school's flower logo distinguishes its gowns from those of the New School.
The New School's main commencement event takes place Friday morning at the Javits Center, but its individual colleges are holding ceremonies and receptions before then.
Pace University graduates are sporting the most somber, if slimming, color.
Pace undergraduates walked to claim their diplomas Thursday at the theater at Madison Square Garden.