Flushing High School

Flushing High School is a four-year public high school in Flushing, in the New York City borough of Queens. The school is operated by the New York City Department of Education.

This article is about the high school at Union Street, Flushing, New York. For the high school at Barclay Avenue, Flushing, New York, see Flushing International High School. For the high school in Michigan, see Flushing High School (Michigan).
Flushing High School
Address
35-01 Union Street

Flushing
,
Queens
,
New York
11354

United States
Coordinates40.764958, -73.827009
Information
Motto'Widening the Spectrum of Teaching and Learning'
Founded1875
School boardNew York City Department of Education
School numberQ460
PrincipalIgnazio Accardi
Grades9-12
Number of studentsover 3000
CampusUrban
School colour(s)Black, Red, and White
NicknameFlushing, FHS
Team nameFlushing Red Devils/Lady Red Devils
Websitehttp://www.flushinghighschool.org/
Flushing High School
Location35-01 Union St.
Queens, New York
Coordinates40°45′54″N 73°49′39″W
Area4.7 acres (1.9 ha)
Built1912
ArchitectSnyder, C.B.J.
Architectural styleTudor Revival, Collegiate Gothic
NRHP reference No.91002036[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPFebruary 10, 1992
Designated NYCLJanuary 18, 1991

History
1917

Flushing High School was established by the Village of Flushing in 1875 prior to its consolidation with New York City and remains the oldest public high school in the present city.[2] For decades, the school enjoyed a good reputation with local real estate sales brochures touting proximity to "famed Flushing High School" as late as the 1960s.[3] By the 1980s, the student body ceased to be drawn from the local Jewish and Asian population. Matters deteriorated and Flushing High was closed in June 2012 as a "failing school." Attempts have been made to reorganize the school, but it remains troubled. The entire staff had to reapply for their positions in 2017.[4]

Flushing High School was originally located on the northeast corner of Union Street and Sanford Avenue.[5] It is currently located on Northern Boulevard, and housed in a distinctive Collegiate Gothic style building featuring turrets and gargoyles. It was built in 1912-1915, with another wing added in 1954. The WPA's Federal Art Project funded James Penney [6] to paint four murals which were installed in 1938.[7]

The building was designated as a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1991.[2][8] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1]

Notable alumni
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References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Freedom Mile - Site 7 schArchived 2006-07-07 at the Wayback Machine, The Queens Historical Society. Accessed June 26, 2006.
  3. Linden Towers. Columbia University Library Real Estate Brochure Collection. 1958.
  4. "DOE to shake up Flushing High School". Queen Chronicle. October 26, 2017.
  5. Map of Flushing, Queens. Sanborn Map Co. 1903.
  6. "Oral History Interview with James Penney Archives of American Art". Archives of American Art. August 21, 1981.
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-09-12. Retrieved 2014-09-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. John A. Bonafide (September 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Flushing High School". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-01-16. See also: "Accompanying 13 photos".
  9. Schwartz, Paul. "Giants’ pick Bromley found success, hope after dark past", New York Post, May 25, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2019. "'I remember, he didn’t meet his father until he was 17 years old,' said Jim DeSantis, Bromley’s football coach at Flushing High School."
  10. Berkvist, Robert. "Jerry Bock, Fiddler on the Roof Composer, Dies at 81", The New York Times, November 3, 2010. Accessed September 5, 2019. "Jerrold Lewis Bock was born on Nov. 23, 1928, in New Haven, the only child of George Bock, a salesman, and the former Peggy Alpert. He grew up in Flushing, Queens, where he wrote his first musical, My Dream, while still in Flushing High School."
  11. YMCA of Greater New York, Flushing Branch
  12. Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts, The HistoryMakers. Accessed September 5, 2019. "During his early childhood, Butts’s family moved to New York City, where he received his primary education; in 1967, he earned his high school diploma from Flushing High School, where he was a member of the track team and president of the senior class."
  13. Unique stage and screen talents, Godfrey Cambridge, African American Registry. Accessed September 5, 2019. "Born to parents who emigrated from British Guiana, he attended public schools in Nova Scotia while living with his grandparents. After finishing his education in New York at Flushing High School and Hofstra College, he began to study acting."
  14. Stevens, Dana. "Beautifully, Profoundly, Naively, Contradictorily, Romantically, Kinetically, Jokily, Cockily, Fearfully, Drunkenly, Goofily, Impudently; Robert Christgau’s memoir.", Slate (magazine), March 4, 2015. Accessed September 5, 2019. "The moment I realized Robert Christgau’s Going Into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man would be doing something different from your average writer’s memoir came—well, almost came—around Page 95. The morning after skipping the Flushing High School senior prom to hit a couple of Manhattan jazz clubs with the girlfriend who would later relieve him of his long-guarded Presbyterian virginity, Bob, a precocious graduate at 16, drops his date off at the door of her family’s apartment with a single chaste kiss on the lips."
  15. Eddie Fogler recalls his career, Vanderbilt Commodores, January 12, 2011. Accessed September 5, 2019. "Fogler, 62, was an All-City guard from Flushing High School in Flushing, N.Y."
  16. Nancy Gertner Interview Transcript, Stanford Law School. Accessed September 5, 2019. "Yes. That was the only alternative. I went to public school in Manhattan, no I guess I first went to public school in Queens, College Point and then Flushing and then I went to Flushing High School."
  17. "My Life At Popular Photography", Lenny Lipton, December 13, 2009. Accessed September 5, 2019. "When I lived in Queens between the ages of 15 and 18, attending Flushing High School, I lived on a street called Kisenna Boulevard."
  18. Boyce, Heather Karlie. Paul Meltsner, Papillon Gallery. Accessed September 5, 2019. "Paul Raphael Meltsner was born in New York City in 1905. A native New Yorker Mr. Meltsner attended Flushing High School and graduated in 1922."
  19. Grimes, William. "Vincent Sardi Jr., Restaurateur and Unofficial ‘Mayor of Broadway,’ Dies at 91", The New York Times, January 5, 2007. Accessed September 5, 2019. "In 1926, the Sardis moved to Flushing, Queens, where Vincent graduated from Flushing High School. He entered Columbia University intending to become a doctor, but failed the chemistry examination, in part because, short of pocket money, he had sold his textbook at Barnes & Noble so he could attend a dance. He transferred to Columbia Business School and earned a degree in 1937."
  20. Cost, Jud. "Q&A With Andy Shernoff", Magnet (magazine), November 14, 2011. Accessed September 5, 2019. "Then my parents moved a few miles down the road to Whitestone, Queens, where I went to Flushing High School."
  21. "Backyard Style Accounts for New High Jump Record". Eugene Register-Guard. February 9, 1931. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
  22. Jacobson, Mark. "The Ground Zero Grassy Knoll A new generation of conspiracy theorists is at work on a secret history of New York’s most terrible day.", New York magazine, March 27, 2006. Accessed September 5, 2019. "September 11 was the true face of corporatized terror, said Tarpley, graduate of Flushing High School, class of 1962 (also Princeton), and author of an 'unauthorized' biography of George Herbert Walker Bush."
  23. Mary van Kleeck Papers, 1849-1998: Biographical Note, Five College Consortium. Accessed September 5, 2019. "Following her father's death in 1892, her family moved to Flushing, New York, where van Kleeck attended Flushing High School."
  24. Winzelberg, David. "They're Over the Hill, but Still on the Field", The New York Times, April 5, 1998. Accessed September 5, 2019. "Unlike most players in the league, Dave Von Ohlen never left the game. One of a handful of former professional ballplayers in the senior league, Von Ohlen, a pitcher, was signed out of Flushing High School by the New York Mets in 1976."
  25. Lewis, Neil A. "Lawrence E. Walsh, Prosecutor in Iran-Contra Scandal, Dies at 102", The New York Times, March 20, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2019. "After graduating from Flushing High School, he worked his way through Columbia College (class of 1932) and Columbia’s law school, spending summers as a seaman in the merchant marine."
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