SAR Academy

655 West 254th Street | Riverdale | built 1974

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

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1968
Three Jewish day schools merge as SAR and buy Arturo Toscanini's former estate
The Salanter, Akiba and Riverdale Academy day schools combined in 1968 and took the name Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy. That year the school bought land that had been the estate of the conductor Arturo Toscanini. Salanter traced its roots to a Harlem yeshiva begun around 1906; author Chaim Potok and designer Ralph Lauren were among its students.
“The school is situated on the former estate of the Italian operatic and symphonic conductor Arturo Toscanini. The land for the school was purchased in 1968.”
Source: Wikipedia
1974
SAR moves into a new building by Caudill Rowlett Scott, which wins a Bard Award
The academy moved into its new building, designed by the firm Caudill Rowlett Scott, in 1974. The next year the building received the Albert S. Bard Award. The school's founding principal was Rabbi Sheldon Chwat.
Source: Wikipedia

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