Yeshiva Torah Temimah

555 Ocean Parkway | Kensington | built 1933

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

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1976
Yeshiva Torah Vodaath of Flatbush, founded by Lipa Margolis, takes the name Torah Temimah
The school is founded by Lipa Margolis under the name Yeshiva Torah Vodaath of Flatbush. In 1976 it begins operating as Yeshiva Torah Temimah. The yeshiva grows in social prominence between 1980 and 2000, and its Ocean Parkway location houses about 650 boys from nursery school through twelfth grade.
Source: Wikipedia
2006
A teacher and assistant principal is charged with abusing two first-graders, and lawsuits against the school follow
Joel Kolko, a teacher and assistant principal at the yeshiva, is charged in 2006 with sexually abusing two first-grade students. He pleads guilty to two lesser child-endangerment counts and is sentenced to three years' probation. Former students sue the school, alleging administrators knew of the abuse for decades, and in 2016 the school reportedly settles the last two cases for $2.1 million.
Source: Wikipedia

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