Metropolitan Avenue Educational Campus

91-30 Metropolitan Avenue | Forest Hills | built 2009

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

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2006
Construction starts on a school campus on a former industrial superblock
After nearly twenty years of proposals, a new school campus was formally proposed in 2005 to ease crowding at schools such as Forest Hills High School, and construction began in 2006. The site, once an industrial superblock, lies between the Long Island Rail Road's inactive Rockaway Beach Branch and its freight-only Montauk Branch, where Montauk tracks once curved north, next to the former Parkside station.
Source: Wikipedia
2010
September
Queens Metropolitan High School opens with 350 students
The finished campus added 1,911 public school seats. In September 2010 Queens Metropolitan High School, which had no name before that year, welcomed its first 350 students, with a goal of growing to 1,000. It shares the building, and its auditorium, with the Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School, which serves grades 6 through 12.
“In September of that year, Queens Metropolitan High School (which had not been named prior to 2010) opened its doors to 350 students…”
Source: Wikipedia
2012
Maspeth High School moves out of the campus to its own site
The campus also housed the newly founded Maspeth High School while environmental safety issues held up that school's own site. Maspeth High School formally opened at its own site in 2012.
“The campus also hosted the new Maspeth High School, until environmental safety issues at that site allowed the formal opening of that school in 2012.”
Source: Wikipedia

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