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magmasystems
Citizen
Username: Magmasystems
Post Number: 267
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Friday, December 17, 2004 - 4:05 pm: |     |
Just wondering....
All of a sudden, there seems to be a bunch of us Millburn/SH-based Stuy grads congregating on millburnweb, and I was wondering if there were any in Maplewood or South Orange?
(We also found a Bronx HS of Science intruder lurking amongst us!)
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amandacat
Citizen
Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 727
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 17, 2004 - 4:42 pm: | |
I'm a Sciencite (class of '88), not the one lurking on Millburnweb though. Have lots of friends (not in M/SO, alas) from Stuy, but all in my year or thereabouts, probably too young (young at age 35! Ha!) for you to have known them. |
Pizzaz
Citizen
Username: Pizzaz
Post Number: 1360
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 17, 2004 - 5:16 pm: | |
Magma: No offense to Millburnweb, but you name it and we got it.  |
magmasystems
Citizen
Username: Magmasystems
Post Number: 268
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Friday, December 17, 2004 - 5:35 pm: | |
There is a discussion going on about Colleges and the admissions processes, and people started talking about their HS guidance counselor. One thing led to another, and people started talking about their high schools...
Turns out that, not only one poster went to my HS, but also grew up in the same neighborhood as me (Briarwood, Queens).
You'll never know who you'll meet on some of these discussion boards.
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Debby
Citizen
Username: Debby
Post Number: 1431
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 17, 2004 - 6:00 pm: | |
Bronx Science, Class of '84. |
amandacat
Citizen
Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 729
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 17, 2004 - 6:33 pm: | |
Very cool, Debby! Too bad we just missed each other . . . |
woodstock
Citizen
Username: Woodstock
Post Number: 842
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 12:54 am: | |
Magma - I was friends with a whole crowd from Briarwood. I grew up in Jamaica. And we all went to Stuy - '84.
Oh, and my sister was Stuy '82. And my uncle... maybe '52? |
Joan
Citizen
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 4494
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 7:47 am: | |
Erasmus Hall '63 |
Debby
Citizen
Username: Debby
Post Number: 1432
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 8:17 am: | |
sbenois and mr. librarylady (libraryman?) are also Sciencites.
My Dad went to Stuyvesant when it was all male, and operated in two shifts to deal with overcrowding: you either went to school from 7-1 or noon to six (or something like that). He's 71, so I guess that would make it class of 1950? |
LibraryLady(ncjanow)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 2068
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 9:19 am: | |
Mr. LL, Class of '60 (attended in all THREE buildings!)
Me. - Van Buren High in Queens 1971
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Debby
Citizen
Username: Debby
Post Number: 1433
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 9:42 am: | |
I never knw about the THIRD building...where was that? I only attended the current building, which was walking distance from my apartment.
Evidently, Stuyvesant has had at least 3 buildings as well. My father attended the one prior to the Union Square area, and it is now in Battery Park. |
magmasystems
Citizen
Username: Magmasystems
Post Number: 269
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 11:22 am: | |
Stuy had at least three buildings.
I was the class of 1976. We went to the building that was on the corner of 15th Street and 1st Avenue.
Then I think they moved to Licoln Center for a few years while waiting for the new building to be constructed.
Now Stuy is on the West Side Highway, right above Battery Park City.
One benefit of the old building was that it was an easy walk to McSorley's, where they had NO problem serving 16 year olds at 3PM. |
Debby
Citizen
Username: Debby
Post Number: 1434
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 1:10 pm: | |
Then there have been at least 4 locations, because I think my dad attended somewhere BEFORE 15th St. |
DeborahG
Citizen
Username: Deborahg
Post Number: 1125
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 2:29 pm: | |
My husband Tom went to Bronx Science, graduated in the early 70s...my mom also went there, graduated in the early 50s. Go Science! |
LibraryLady(ncjanow)
Supporter
Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 2069
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 6:37 pm: | |
Debby, the three buildings for Science were the original old building on Creston and 183, the new one at 75 W. 205th Street and the Annex, which originally was a school for Special Kids, located 3 blocks east of the Concourse at about 183rd.. It was an overflow for the Science Sophomores in the late '50 ubtil the new building was completed. |
woodstock
Citizen
Username: Woodstock
Post Number: 843
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 10:31 pm: | |
Debbie, strange, since the 15th st building cornerstone is (I think) dated 1904. Perhaps the building was a different school, or maybe the school was relocated for a brief time? My uncle (class sometime in the early to mid 50s) went to the 15th street location, as did I.
Magma, did you attend when McSorley's didn't have a Ladies room? |
magmasystems
Citizen
Username: Magmasystems
Post Number: 270
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 7:24 am: | |
Yes, McSorley's only had one bathroom at the time. The drill was that, if one of the female contingent of our party felt the need, she would bring a friend or two to "guard the door" while the business was transacted.
Of course, depending on how looped the friends were, while guarding the door, they might give a general invitation to the patrons in the bar to go inside the bathroom while their friend was inside.
Lots of fun there, with the platters of crackers, cheese, onions and mustard. To a 16-17 year old's taste buds, the beers were fantastic too!
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Debby
Citizen
Username: Debby
Post Number: 1439
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 7:49 am: | |
Woodstock - I just checked out the Stuy website, and you are right - the 15th st building was dedicated in 1905, and used since 1908. Before that, they had an annex in Morningside Heights for just one class - everyone else was downtown.
Check out the site www.stuyvesant.edu
They have a really cool 100 year timeline. |
ashear
Supporter
Username: Ashear
Post Number: 1593
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 9:06 am: | |
Stuy '85. |
Copperfield
Citizen
Username: Copperfield
Post Number: 102
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 1:19 pm: | |
The difference between the new and old Stuyvesants is pretty stark. The old building still had the desks from the 1920s - bench-style chair attached to the desk behind it- in many of the classrooms, and the gym was not much larger than most people's basements.
The new building boasts two Olympic swimming pools, unobstructed river & harbor views, and a decent amount of green space around it. Though Battery Park City always feels like a misplaced section of Atlanta and not a part of Manhattan. But the new building is certainly the rival of any uptown private school. |
jjkatz
Citizen
Username: Jjkatz
Post Number: 454
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 3:08 pm: | |
Bronx Science '77. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 4814
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 5:29 pm: | |
I had the honor of being accepted by Stuyvesant, but I chose to go to Music & Art. Acceptance was based partly on audition. Graduated in 1978.
Back then, it was on City College campus in Harlem. M&A merged with Performing Arts and moved into its new building behind Lincoln Center in around 1985. That's where they hold the reunions, not surprisingly. |
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