Bank Street College of Education
610 West 112th Street | also 610B West 112th Street, 610A West 112th Street, 602 West 112th Street | Morningside Heights | built 1970
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1968
Bank Street's business office files document planning and construction of the West 112th Street building
Bank Street College Archives hold photographs and extensive correspondence from 1968 to 1969 of Victor Seigel, the college's vice president of business affairs. The papers cover how the building at 610 West 112th Street was planned and built.
- 1971
Bank Street College leaves Greenwich Village for a new building on West 112th Street
After a decade of struggling with too little space, Bank Street College of Education moved in 1971 from 69 Bank Street in Greenwich Village to a newly constructed building on West 112th Street, now 610 West 112th. The founding research bureau had settled at the Greenwich Village address in 1930.
Source: bankstreet.edu
- 1981
Bank Street educators help design the Bank Street Writer word processor
A team of educators at Bank Street College worked with programmer Franklin Smith and Intentional Educations on a word processor for children, released for the Apple II and later other computers. Scholastic sold a school version with workbooks, and Broderbund sold a home version. It became the leading word processor in elementary schools for most of the 1980s, and many adults used it too.
“It was designed in 1981 by a team of educators at the Bank Street College of Education in New York City…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1984
Bank Street's The Voyage of the Mimi premieres on PBS stations
In 1984 the college's thirteen-episode science adventure series The Voyage of the Mimi, about humpback whales, premiered on PBS stations. Bank Street produced teacher guides, books and software in science, math, technology, social studies and language arts to accompany it. A second series, a journey to Mayan ruins, followed in 1988.
Source: bankstreet.edu
- 1989
Bank Street launches the Principals Institute to put more women and minorities in school leadership
In 1989 Bank Street established the Principals Institute, a degree program aimed at increasing the number of women and minorities in leadership positions in New York City public schools. It was one of several programs the college launched that year, which also saw it lead a national consortium on educational technology funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
Source: bankstreet.edu
- 2017
Bank Street moves offices and programs from West 112th Street to the Interchurch Center
In 2017 some Bank Street offices and programs relocated from the West 112th Street campus to the Interchurch Center, a building housing more than 70 organizations. The move came the year after Bank Street marked its centennial in 2016.
Source: bankstreet.edu
- 2025
Zohran Mamdani says his first election was a student race at Bank Street
In a March 2025 West Side Rag interview, Zohran Mamdani, then a New York mayoral candidate, recalled attending Bank Street through 8th grade at its West 112th Street school. He said his first campaign was for student body office there, and that he may have caught the political bug on the Upper West Side. He went on to the Bronx High School of Science.
Source: westsiderag.com
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- Bank Street College of EducationWikipedia
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