Lexington School for the Deaf

25-26 75th Street | also 25-06 75th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1966

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

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1968
January 15
Lexington School for the Deaf opens its new Queens campus after a century in Manhattan
Hannah and Isaac Rosenfeld started the school in 1864 so their deaf daughter, Carrie, could be taught, and from 1882 it stood at 904 Lexington Avenue. Growing enrollment led the school to purchase six acres in Queens in 1960. The new school opened here on January 15, 1968, with classrooms, a gym, a swimming pool, an auditorium, a residence hall, a clinic and playing fields.
Source: lexnyc.org
1968
Pomerance and Breines design a brick-and-concrete campus for 300 deaf students
The firm Pomerance and Breines planned the complex to hold 300 students in a campus layout, set back from the street behind parking and landscaping. Its brick buildings carry concrete vertical and horizontal elements, and both the walls and the windows are double-paned with an air space between. The project won a Bronze Plaque for Schools and Colleges in the Queens Chamber of Commerce building awards.
Source: queensmodern.com
1994
Protesters picket the school until Phil Bravin, who is deaf, is made chairman of its board
The school's board named a hearing chairman in 1994, and members of the deaf community objected that they had not been fairly represented in the choice. After picket lines and other protests, Phil Bravin took the post. Six years earlier, a similar protest had made Bravin the first deaf person to chair Gallaudet University's board.
Source: Wikipedia

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