Seward Park Campus

Seward Park Campus
Seward Park Campus (2013)
Address
350 Grand Street New York City , New York 10002 United States
Information
Principal	ESA - Wallace Simpson, AGL - Andrea Brand LOMA - John Wenk, NDHS - Scott Conti, HSDLAS - Li Yan a
Grades	9-12
Language	English
Color(s)	Blue, Grey, and White
Mascot	Bears
Team name	Bears, Lady Bears
Website	http://www.sewardparkhs.com/

The Seward Park Campus is a "vertical campus" of the New York City Department of Education located at 350 Grand Street at the corner of Essex Street, in the Lower East Side/Cooperative Village neighborhoods of Manhattan, New York City. It was the location of the former Seward Park High School, a now-closed comprehensive high school.

The school began as P.S. 62 Intermediate, an intermediate school. In 1923 the school pursued an experimental path as a combined junior-senior high school. Two years later, it transformed to a strictly senior high school, with Robert Brodie serving as its first high school principal. Owing to the construction of the New York City Subway's IND Sixth Avenue Line (F and <F>​ trains), the school was relocated to the site of a courthouse and the Ludlow Street Jail. The new building was completed in 1929.^[1]

The school experienced a decline in performance and graduated its last class in June 2006. The building now houses five small schools: the High School for Dual Language and Asian Studies, New Design High School, the Essex Street Academy — formerly the High School for History and Communication, the Lower Manhattan Arts Academy, and the Urban Assembly Academy of Government and Law. The small schools showed graduation rates which were much improved over that of the old comprehensive school. Seward Park High School's graduation rate in 2001 was 32%, while the graduation rates of the smaller schools in 2012 were:^[2]

• High School for Dual Language and Asian Studies – 92.5%
• Lower Manhattan Arts Academy – 80%
• Urban Assembly Academy of Government and Law – 79.3%
• New Design High School – 79.1%
• Essex Street Academy – 76.5%

The campus offers programs on Saturdays where students can come in and participate in activities such as SAT prep, cooking, and Open Gym. The school refers to this program as the "Super Saturday Program".^[3]

The campuses' varsity sports teams are nicknamed the Seward Park Bears. They participate in the PSAL Division A Athletics. Boys' sports include baseball, basketball, volleyball, handball, bowling, and badminton. Girls' sports include basketball, softball, volleyball, tennis, bowling, and badminton. Each individual school in the campus has a junior varsity basketball team which is very competitive.

Notable alumni

See also

•  New York City portal
•  Schools portal

References

Notes

Sources

• Fishman, Katherine Davis (March 2, 1987). "At Seward Park, the Melting Pot Still Bubbles". New York.

External links

Green spacesEducation

Current	Bard High School Early College NEST+m Seward Park Campus
Former	Etz Chaim Yeshiva

ReligionCulture

Community / museums	Hebrew Free Burial Association Henry Street Settlement International Center of Photography Lower East Side Conservancy Lower East Side History Project Lower East Side Tenement Museum University Settlement Society of New York
Food / nightlife	63 Clinton Attaboy Cake Shop NYC Clinton Street Baking Company & Restaurant Colors Contra Dhamaka Dimes Dirt Candy Double Chicken Please Economy Candy Essex Market Ivan Ramen Katz's Delicatessen King Tut's Wah Wah Hut Kossar's Bialys Mercury Lounge Rothko Russ & Daughters Shopsin's Sin-é Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery
Arts	ABC No Rio Angel Orensanz Center Bluestockings Dixon Place Envoy Enterprises Foley Gallery The Lodge Gallery Orchard Rivington Street Wall Shin Gallery Tibor de Nagy Gallery
Theater	Folksbiene Rockwood Music Hall Metrograph National Theater The Slipper Room WOW Café
Former	Allen & Delancey Bar Uchū Luna Lounge Milk & Honey Ratner's wd~50

Other buildingsTransportation

Subway stations	Bowery Delancey Street/Essex Street East Broadway Grand Street Second Avenue
Streets	Allen Street Bowery Broome Street Chatham Square Cherry Street Chrystie Street Delancey Street Division Street East Broadway Eldridge Street Elizabeth Street Essex Street Forsyth Street Grand Street Henry Street Hester Street Ludlow Street Madison Street Mott Street Mulberry Street Orchard Street Rivington Street South Street Stanton Street

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