Columbia Daily Spectator is the aily newspaper, written by Columbia University undergraduates, servicing the university community and the neighborhood of Morningside Heights. It is published in the Spectator Building at 112th and Broadway in New York, New York. Founded in 1877, it is the oldest continually operating college news daily in the nation after The Harvard Crimson, and has been financially independent of the university since 1962. It is printed weekdays during the academic term. In addition to serving as a campus newspaper, The Spec, as it is commonly known, also reports the latest news of the surrounding Morningside Heights community. The paper is delivered each day to over 150 locations throughout the Morningside Heights neighborhood and counts a readership of over 10,000.