New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies

333 West 17th Street | also 330 West 18th Street | Chelsea | built 1966

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
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. 1994

    September

    The New York City Museum School opens, sharing the building

    The New York City Museum School, a public school for grades 9 to 12, opened in September 1994. Sonnet Takahisa of the Brooklyn Museum co-founded it, and the Children's Museum of Manhattan was also a founding partner. It shares the West 17th Street building with the Lab School for Collaborative Studies, and its students take regular museum classes with teachers and museum staff.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1998

    Future Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi graduates from the Lab School

    Nick Valensi, later the guitarist for The Strokes, attended the Lab School for Collaborative Studies from 10th through 12th grade and graduated in 1998. The school was founded in 1987 by Sheila Breslaw and Rob Menken. Actresses Claire Danes and Morena Baccarin also attended for 7th and 8th grades.

    Source: Wikipedia

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