Queens Gateway to Health Sciences Secondary School

160-20 Goethals Avenue | Hillcrest | built 2014

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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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  1. 2007

    June 15

    City Council approves the new school on the hospital campus over a unanimous community board veto

    Queens Gateway, a health-sciences school founded with Mount Sinai in the mid-1990s, had spent years borrowing space in other buildings. A plan to build it on land freed up by the new Queens Hospital Center drew neighborhood fears of traffic and lost parking, and Community Board 8 unanimously rejected it on April 19, 2007. The site was also found to be contaminated with petroleum from a neighboring ambulance fueling station and formaldehyde from the old hospital morgue that stood there. The City Council approved the project anyway on June 15, 2007.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 2010

    September 8

    Queens Gateway moves into its $70.8 million building on Goethals Avenue

    The school left the former Jamaica Jewish Center in Briarwood, its home since 1998, when the new building opened on September 8, 2010. The hospital morgue that once occupied the site had been moved to the north side of the campus to make room. A plan to add a sixth grade that year, raising capacity to 805 students, met objections from staff and parents and was postponed to 2011-12.

    “The new Queens Gateway building, which cost $70.8 million to construct, opened on September 8, 2010…”

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 2010

    Pei Cobb Freed designs a U-shaped brick school with a skylit gym and a Sarah Morris mural

    Pei Cobb Freed & Partners designed the four-story, 64,800-square-foot building in light-colored brick, and the School Construction Authority built it. Its U shape opens toward Goethals Avenue, with the gymnasium filling the middle under roof skylights. A first-floor colonnade along the front carries a mural by the artist Sarah Morris, and the building holds 24 classrooms, 11 science labs and a 297-seat auditorium.

    “The building was designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and built by the New York City School Construction Authority.”

    Source: Wikipedia

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