Lycée Français de New York
502 East 76th Street | also 503 East 75th Street | Lenox Hill | built 2002
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- 2003
The Lycée completes a new campus in a converted Volkswagen dealership
In 2003 the Lycée finished a 158,000-square-foot campus designed by Polshek Partnership, now Ennead, taking up nearly a full block along East 75th and 76th Streets. It was remodeled from a Volkswagen dealership and five-story garage that had stood there since at least the early 1970s. The two linked buildings hold a 354-seat auditorium and two full-size gymnasiums, and the glass facade bears tributes to great writers, artists and thinkers.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2012
A French election candidate attacks the school for admitting celebrity children
On March 29, 2012, Julien Balkany, a candidate to represent French citizens in North America, said at a meeting in Montreal that French children should have priority at the Lycée. He said the school had 12 nursery places and more than 250 requests, and complained that it had taken the children of Donald Trump, Madonna and Angelina Jolie. RFI's report, credited to Reuters, noted that Madonna and Jolie are both descended from French Canadians, so their children might hold French citizenship.
Source: rfi.fr
- 2016
The Lycée opens the York Wing with a TV studio and a makerspace
The Lycée opened its York Wing in 2016, an addition of 19,000 square feet on York Avenue. Besides classrooms, it holds a media lab with a working TV studio and recording gear, and a makerspace for carpentry, 3D printing, laser cutting and robotics. Teachers with training in media, technology and fabrication work with their colleagues to fold these spaces into lessons.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2019
Le Figaro visits the campus, where each nursery class has a French and an American teacher
Le Figaro described the Lycée's campus on East 75th Street, in use since 2003, as home to about 1,300 pupils from some sixty nationalities. Children are bilingual from nursery school, taught together by one French and one American teacher, and a class on American literature adds local context to the French curriculum. The paper noted that only 20 percent of students choose the classic baccalaureate.
Source: lefigaro.fr
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