Abraham Joshua Heschel School
30 West End Avenue | also 246 West 61st Street | Lincoln Square | built 2011
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- 2000
The Heschel School acquires the 30 West End Avenue parcel at 61st Street
In 2000 the Abraham Joshua Heschel School acquired 30 West End Avenue, next to the lot at 246 West 61st Street where it would later build. Commercial Observer wrote in October 2009 that the parcel was leased to an auto dealer. The school's high school at 20 West End Avenue was completed in 2002.
Source: commercialobserver.com
- 2006
The school pays $18 million for the lot at 246 West 61st Street
In 2006 the Heschel School bought the lot at 246 West 61st Street for $18 million, according to Commercial Observer. The lot sits next to the school's 30 West End Avenue parcel. In 2009 the school filed plans for a nine-story building on it.
Source: commercialobserver.com
- 2009
Heschel files plans for a nine-story school after a $33 million gift from a parent
On October 14, 2009 the school applied to the Department of Buildings to put up a nine-story building at 246 West 61st Street, designed by Gruzen Samton Architects. The building was to house kindergarten through eighth grade beside the high school at 20 West End Avenue, combining the schools into one campus. Parent Ronald P. Stanton had recently given $33 million to the capital campaign, and completion was expected in 2012.
Source: commercialobserver.com
- 2012
The new nine-story building opens, with an opening celebration on December 9
Classes began in the new building in September 2012, and the opening celebration followed on December 9. The 145,000-square-foot, nine-story project cost $79 million and let the early childhood, lower and middle schools leave their Upper West Side sites to join the high school on one campus. It has a competition-size gym, library, dining space, performance space, chapel and rooftop play space.
Source: nyrej.com
- 2013
The new building is expected to earn LEED Gold, with reused stormwater and wind power
A February 2013 trade report on the building said stormwater is captured and reused for irrigation and an active chilled beam system handles comfort. The gym sits at the top, with a green play deck on its roof. Con Edison supplies 70 percent of the building's electrical power from wind, and LEED Gold certification was anticipated.
Source: nyrej.com
- 2013
Columbia Law professor Ariela Dubler is named the school's next head
On December 18, 2013, the school announced that Ariela Dubler, a Columbia Law School professor, would become Head of School in 2014. She was to take over after the retirement of Roanna Shorofsky.
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- Abraham Joshua Heschel SchoolWikipedia
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