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P.S. 99 on Kew Gardens Road in Kew Gardens, NY.P.S. 99 on Kew Gardens Road in Kew Gardens, NY.
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P.S. 99
Pictures dated c. 1930 and 2003 (click to enlarge)

When Kew Gardens was first subdivided, no land was set aside for a school.  The first P.S. 99 was a portable wooden school house on Cuthbert Road.  In 1915, Alrick Man proposed a site on the east side of Kew Gardens Road at Augustine (83rd) Avenue.  Between 1920 and 1923, the Board of Education suggested a number of alternative sites - the Forest Hills side of Union Turnpike, the east side of Lefferts Boulevard, Forest Park on Park Lane, and Quentin Street (80th Road) near Park Lane - all of which were opposed by the Community.  In January, 1923, the City's Board of Estimate finally approved the very site Man had suggested 8 years earlier.  P.S. 99 opened in 1924.


Circa 1930 picture courtesy of Vincent Seyfried;  References: Barry Lewis, "Kew Gardens: Urban Village in the Big City", pp. 59 - 61 (1999).
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