New York Law School
52 Leonard Street | also 43 Worth Street, 185 West Broadway, 40 Leonard Street | Tribeca | built 2006
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- 1891
Theodore Dwight and Columbia faculty found New York Law School after a dispute over teaching method
Columbia Law School professor Theodore Dwight and most of Columbia's faculty and students left in a dispute over president Seth Low's push to adopt the case method, and they founded New York Law School. The state chartered it on June 11, 1891, with John Bigelow as the first president of its board. Its first classes met on October 1 of that year in the Equitable Building, at 120 Broadway.
“On June 11, 1891, New York Law School was chartered by the State of New York…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1974
State officials revise their view of New York Law School, citing a "renaissance"
In 1973 a New York State Department of Education report called New York Law School the worst in the state. The next year the department changed its view and said the school had begun a "renaissance." Dean E. Donald Shapiro, who took office in 1973, had widened the curriculum beyond bar-exam preparation, and the school joined the Association of American Law Schools in 1974.
“…which in 1973 it had criticized in a report as the worst school in the state, proclaiming that the law school had started to undergo…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2006
New York Law School breaks ground on a $190 million expansion of its Tribeca campus
In August 2006 New York Law School began work on a $190 million expansion and renovation of its Tribeca campus. The plan centered on a new glass-enclosed building of nine levels, five above ground and four below, that would tie the school's older buildings together. Once finished, the program was meant to nearly double the size of the campus.
“In August 2006, it broke ground on the $190 million expansion and renovation program that transformed its Tribeca campus into a cohesive architectural complex…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2007
Crews build the law school's new wing top-down, bracing walls with floor slabs, a reported Manhattan first
Construction of the school's new academic building began in January 2007 on a tight L-shaped site hemmed in by buildings from before the turn of the century. A high water table called for a slurry wall and a waterproof concrete foundation that reaches about 100 feet down. Because the neighbors sat on rubble, the team dug from the top down, using each floor slab to brace the walls, which ENR described as the first use of that method in Manhattan. The work wrapped up in August 2009.
Source: enr.com
- 2009
BKSK and SmithGroupJJR finish a glass-fronted law school wing in Tribeca
The first phase of New York Law School's expansion, designed by BKSK Architects with SmithGroupJJR and completed in 2009, added about 200,000 square feet of new construction and renovated another 150,000. Classrooms, faculty offices, student spaces and the law library in the new wing are tied together by a lounge and circulation spine along a five-level, 200-foot glass facade. It won a 2010 Outstanding Project Award from the Greater New York Construction User Council.
Source: bkskarch.com
- 2015
A University of Rochester business school center moves into the New York Law School campus
In April 2015 the law school and the University of Rochester's Simon Business School announced that they would team up. Under the agreement the business school moved its New York City center onto the Tribeca campus, and the two institutions planned to work together on programs for their students and alumni. The arrangement put the only law school and business school in the city under one roof.
Source: Wikipedia
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