P.S. 89 Liberty School and I.S. 289

201 Warren Street | Battery Park City | built 2015

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1998
September 10
P.S. 89 opens to its first students on September 10, 1998
P.S. 89, now called the Liberty School, welcomed students for the first time on September 10, 1998, according to the school's own website. The school lists its address today as 201 Warren Street in Battery Park City.
Source: ps89.org
2001
September 11
Principal Ronnie Najjar leads P.S. 89 students out on September 11
Principal Ronnie Najjar was in the schoolyard with parents when the first plane hit the north tower, and she moved all the children into the windowless auditorium. After the south tower fell, she, staff and parents led the children north along the West Side Highway, about a mile and a half, to P.S. 3 in Greenwich Village. The school stayed there for months and returned to its own building in March, after families debated air quality and safety.
Source: ny1.com
2019
July
The Authority restores the school playground, last overhauled in 2003
The Battery Park City Authority began restoring the P.S. 89 and I.S. 289 playground in July 2019, aiming to finish near the start of the school year. Its last major update had been in 2003. Weathered play equipment, cracked asphalt, a shrinking rubber surface and possible tree-root drainage problems had worn it down. Trees were slated to be replaced in the October fall planting season.
Source: bpca.ny.gov

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