Harry S. Truman High School

750 Baychester Avenue | Co-op City | built 1970

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1973

    September 10

    Truman High School opens at the heart of the Northeast Bronx Educational Park

    Harry S. Truman High School opened on September 10, 1973, as the centerpiece of an "educational park" of five schools built on former Freedomland land in Co-op City. Planned to draw 10,400 pupils from Co-op City and nearby areas and to counter de facto segregation, the complex was begun in 1969, funded by a grant under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and cost $76 million in all. The seven-story high school was designed for 4,000 students.

    “Truman High School opened on September 10, 1973, along with Beach Channel High School in Rockaway, Queens. The entire project cost $76 million.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1975

    Local residents boycott the new school complex over leaks and cracks

    Soon after the Truman complex opened, its buildings turned out to have leaks, cracking and faulty utilities. Local residents boycotted the complex in 1975 until repairs were made, and the problems later prompted State Comptroller Edward V. Regan to audit it in late 1979. The athletic field was also held up by the city's fiscal crisis of the 1970s.

    “The complex was boycotted by local residents in 1975 until repairs were made.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1998

    Principal Sana Q. Nasser arrives and builds career academies inside Truman

    Sana Q. Nasser became Truman's principal in 1998. Working with the nonprofit P.E.N.C.I.L., she set up six career-themed academies, in TV production and media, culinary arts, Air Force Junior ROTC, engineering and robotics, law, and business computing, to give the big school a small-school feel. The building gained a TV studio, classroom kitchens and a custom-built courtroom with a jury box. Nasser won a New York Post Liberty Medal in 2011 and retired in September 2013.

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 2011

    November

    Alumnus Adolfo Carrión Jr. helps reopen the Northeast Bronx Planetarium at Truman

    The Northeast Bronx Planetarium on Truman's first floor reopened with a ribbon cutting in November 2011. Former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión Jr., a Truman graduate, had secured $375,000 to replace its old bank of slide projectors with two digital projectors.

    Source: Wikipedia

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