M.S. 131 / Chinatown YMCA Hester Street Center
100 Hester Street | also 36 Forsyth Street | Chinatown | built 1983
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1976
Students at J.H.S. 65 on Hester and Forsyth paint the mural Let Our People Grow
At the corner of Hester and Forsyth streets stood J.H.S. 65, the old Chinatown junior high school later torn down to make way for I.S. 131. In 1976 artist Arlan Huang directed a student mural project there titled Let Our People Grow. Many of those students later joined the team that created a mural named Wall of Respect for the Working People of Chinatown.
Source: nyc.reflective-urbanisms.com
- 1993
The Chinatown YMCA wins one of the city's first Beacon grants for the school at 100 Hester
The Chinatown YMCA won a grant from the city's Department of Youth Services in 1993, among the earliest awarded, to set up a Beacon center. A Beacon turns a public school into a community center after school hours and on weekends, and this one operates at M.S. 131 at 100 Hester Street. The YMCA says it has served Chinatown and the Lower East Side from this building for decades.
Source: ymcanyc.org
- 2004
Pace High School is established in 2004 and shares the 100 Hester Street building with M.S. 131
The city Department of Education founded Pace High School in 2004 with Pace University, as one of 332 schools in its Empowerment School program. The school shares the Hester Street building with M.S. 131, the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Middle School, and Emma Lazarus High School. Eleventh graders can take undergraduate courses through Pace University.
“Pace High School was established in 2004 by the New York City Department of Education in collaboration with Pace University.”
Source: Wikipedia
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