Morningside

Morningside is located in the same area as the real-world neighborhood of the same name.

Background
Morningside is a cultural and educational powerhouse, boasting several colleges, libraries, cathedrals, etc. Columbia University is up and running, albeit a shell of its former Ivy League self. The University is filled with researchers and scholars, truly trying to bring humanity back from the brink of destruction. However, knowledge doesn’t pay the bills by itself.

Inter-City Relations
Morningside is impossible to access without already being within the NCSC, and has strong relations with Harlem and Bloomingdale.

Morningside will mention “West Harlem” being to their North, but it is outside the game map, and will not be visitable by the player.

Columbia
Columbia University, also just known as “Columbia” is a solid attempt at a place of higher learning. It is one of the only functioning colleges, but it is private to Morningside residents only, unless the player changes that.

Columbia, pre-War was also part of the New Manhattan Project, and still teaches nuclear energy and engineering, although some groups are rightfully fearful of that.

Bo Ling
The current president of the University. She is a brilliant scientist in her own right, and is leading the bright minds of Morningside.

She is also an ex-Institute scientist, who left the Institute on amicable terms. Most of NY doesn’t know about the Institute, and think of it as Massachusetts Folklore, so Dr. Ling keeps it to herself.

Mt Ararat Hospital
Mt. Ararat Hospital (fake Mt. Sinai) is a partially operating hospital. While not as well known as Bellevue, it serves its small community.

St. John’s Cathedral
The Cathedral is home to practicing Christians, complete with extended clergy with Bishop & Deanery, and congregation.

Brumfield
Brumfield plays the organ at the church, and is obsessed with old holo-tape movies.

Side Stories/Quests
And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out) Morningside has a negative GDP, and needs to find a way to make money. Maybe This Time Some of the Morningside citizens that are suffering due to the city’s financial situation are gathering at West End Bar to organize what to do.

Player Interaction
The player will be able to directly influence Morningside’s finances.

Tourism
In order for Morningside to be able to make a profit off tourism, it will need to convert many of the historic buildings to venues that will bring in caps.

Education
The NCSC is already well-educated, so Morningside would have to allow non-NCSC members entry to the city-state, similarly to a Student Visa.

Drugs
Bloomingdale, or more specifically the Clemente Family, will be upset with Morningside, meaning the security of Morningside will suffer.

Water
To corner the water market, East Harlem’s water filters would have to stay broken, and Morningside would have ‘ugly’ pipes and processing plant

Power
Columbia University can build a Nuclear Reactor, which would make more than enough energy for all of Morningside, and could sell the excess energy to the rest of the NCSC, benefiting them all. They could also overclock it, and sell to the southern parts of Manhattan for more money, but would leave Morningside at risk of nuclear meltdown.

Relation to Main Games
Bo Ling, president of Columbia, is from the Commonwealth Institute of Technology.