Bayside High School

32-24 Corporal Kennedy Street | also 208-32 32nd Avenue | Bayside | built 1957

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The lot about 1940
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The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1934

    The Public Works Administration starts building Bayside High School with federal money

    Put up between 1934 and 1936 by the Public Works Administration at a cost of $2.5 million, Bayside High was the first school building in New York City paid for with federal funds. It was one of seven Depression-era high schools, among them Tilden, Lincoln, Walton and Grover Cleveland, built from a single set of blueprints to save money. Architect Walter C. Martin's design laid the schools out as small campuses for a collegiate feel and drew on Kirby Hall in Gretton, England.

    “Bayside High School was also the first school building in the city to be constructed using Federal funds, built by the Public Works Administration from 1934 to 1936…”

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1936

    March 16

    Bayside High School opens with 2,300 students moved from Flushing High

    The new school took in its first class on March 16, 1936. Its 2,300 students had previously attended Flushing High School. Bayside and Andrew Jackson High School were the last two of the seven schools built from the shared Depression-era blueprints to be finished.

    “Bayside opened its doors on March 16, 1936, taking in 2,300 students who had previously attended Flushing High School.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1948

    Bayside student Mae Faggs runs at the London Olympics at age 16

    While still enrolled at Bayside High School, sprinter Mae Faggs competed in the 200 meters at the 1948 Olympic Games in London when she was 16, though she did not reach the final. Four years later she won a gold medal in the women's 4 x 100 meter relay at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 1978

    Bayside's music department starts teaching on a Roland synthesizer

    Under department chairman Sidney Lovett and teacher John Benza, the school's music program bought a Roland System 100 synthesizer in 1978. That made Bayside one of the first secondary schools in the country to buy and teach music synthesis.

    “In 1978 the Bayside High School music program, then under department chairman Sidney Lovett and teacher John Benza, was among the first secondary schools…”

    Source: Wikipedia

  5. 1979

    January

    Future mayor Eric Adams graduates, a few months later than he claimed

    Eric Adams and Adrienne Adams, later New York's mayor and the first Black City Council speaker, were classmates here in the late 1970s. Adrienne was a cheerleader who started a gospel chorus at the then mostly white school. Eric said he finished in 1978, but his transcript shows he graduated in January 1979, and when asked about it he admitted graduating late.

    “Mr. Adams said that he graduated from Bayside High School in 1978, but he graduated in January 1979, according to a copy of his high school transcript.”

    Source: Wikipedia

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