Rivington House

45 Rivington Street | also 181 Eldridge Street, 156 Forsyth Street, 154 Forsyth Street | Lower East Side | built 1900

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1. 1898

   September 12

   Public School 20 opens on Rivington Street

   Architect C. B. J. Snyder, then the city's Superintendent of School Buildings, designs the five-story Renaissance Revival school. Beyond serving as an elementary school, it opens as an evening recreation center for children. Its alumni include Irving Caesar, George and Ira Gershwin, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson.

   Source: Wikipedia

2. 1942

   October 7

   A wartime radio-operator school replaces the closed P.S. 20

   After Public School 20 closes in June 1942 for low enrollment, the building reopens as the Manhattan Trades Center, starting with a high-school program that trains radio operators. Graduates become technicians and radio operators with the armed forces and the merchant marine. After the war, the center offers accelerated programs for returning veterans.

   Source: Wikipedia

3. 1989

   April 18

   Mayor Koch announces an AIDS nursing home for the unused school

   With the Lower East Side among the neighborhoods hit hardest by the AIDS epidemic, Mayor Ed Koch announces that the school, unused for several years, will become Rivington House, a 230-bed nursing home for patients with HIV/AIDS. Eighty of the beds are reserved for patients from city hospitals. The city later sells the building to Village Nursing Home, which rebuilds it in 1993-94 with public bond funding.

   Source: Wikipedia

4. 2016

   A city report finds officials knew of the $116 million Rivington House flip

   After the AIDS nursing home winds down, the Allure Group buys the nearly vacant building and gets the city to lift the deed restriction that limited it to non-profit residential health care, then sells it to a developer for $116 million. In 2016 the mayor says he did not know of the deal. A city Department of Investigation report that year concludes that officials who publicly denied knowing the details had in fact been aware of them.

   Source: Wikipedia

Further reading

• Rivington HouseWikipedia

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