Saint Barnabas High School

425 East 240th Street | also 433 East 240th Street | Woodlawn | built 1957

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

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1959
St. Barnabas High School moves into its building on East 240th Street
St. Barnabas parish had opened an all-girls Catholic high school in September 1924, run by the Sisters of Charity for the families of the Woodlawn Heights parish. In 1959 the school began classes at this location, where it would stay until it closed.
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2008
The school starts a Film Club that merges with the Drama Club a year later
The school's Film Club began in 2008, and in 2009 it combined with the Drama Club that already existed. Working together, the two groups made feature-length and short films, and members also staged plays and musicals. The clubs were among many after-school activities, alongside groups such as the Robotics Club and the student newspaper.
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2024
Saint Barnabas High School closes after a century
The all-girls Catholic school, founded in 1924 and run under the Archdiocese of New York, closed in 2024. It had separated from St. Barnabas parish on September 1, 2015. Among its graduates were the musician Eileen Ivers, the book editor Alice Mayhew and Mildred Trouillot, a former First Lady of Haiti.
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