New York Harbor School
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| Established | 2003 |
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| Type | Public |
| Principal | Nathan Dudley |
| Students | approx. 400 |
| Location | 400 Irving Ave., 4th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11237, New York City, New York, United States |
| Colors | Blue and White |
| Mascot | Sharks |
| Telephone | (718) 381-7100 |
| Website | newyorkharborschool.org |
The New York Harbor School (NYHS) is a public high school located at Bushwick (neighborhood that cover the northeast Brooklyn, New York City). New York Harbor School is a unique school that relates every aspect of its curriculum to the water. In New York Harbor School, students visit their outdoor laboratory - New York Harbor - on every Tuesday and Thursday. Students would periodically as classes to visit different rivers through out New York Harbors such as the Hudson River and the East River. Acitivities include taking sample and measure the water quality, lectures about the marine science as well as the rivers' histories. Further more, during the students' outdoor visits, they would learn how to row, sail, navigate on a medium sized schooner (Lettie G. Howard) and take care of aquatic organisms like feeding them with fish, shrimp, or other edibles accordingly. The after school programs offered are closely related with water as well: Rowing, Swimming Club, Harbor Science and SCUBA Diving Club etc. In some, students study animals that inhabit both the aquatic and on land ecosystems. As the request to move New York Harbor School to Governor's Island (can be reached by taking a ferry from Manhattan) had been approved by the government, the school had planed their transplantation to take place in September 2008 or 2009. Unlike to the school's current location, the Governor's Island is close to the water and, in fact, surrounded by a mixture of salty and fresh water known as an esturary. The Governor's Island is deemed as an ideal place where students will have a greater opportunity working with water.
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[edit] History
The NYHS was officially opened in the year of 2003. It is founded by several public and environmental organizations. Since the school foundation, it has joined the Bushwick Campus and occupied the building's fourth floor, along with 3 other high schools that occupy the other floors respectively. Only the campus' cafeteria, gym, swimming pool and weight trainning room are shared among the schools. Before Bushwick High School was created, it was a cemetery used for people of the Civil War. It was one of the original high schools in Bushwick. Bushwick High School closed and was separated to make three new schools (Academy of Urban Planning, Bushwick School for Social Justice, another great small school on the campus and New York Harbor School). Three years later another high school was created: the Academy of Environmental Leadership. For long, NYHS had hoped to move to another ideal location that better reflects its theme according to the school's officials and students - to move near the water.
A mythical blond haired mesiah is thought to have originally begat the Harbor School into existence. Through the tireless work of this prophet known simply as Fish, the school may yet be delivered unto the promised (is)land.
[edit] Programs
The NYHS runs various programs related to New York's maritime experience that distinguish itself from other public schools. These programs include receive funds and public supports to make weekly and vacational sailings possible for students. The students are to be given with swimming lessons and they must know how to swim as part of the requirement for graduation. NYHS launches trips where one can choose multiple physical/lectural activities like go in boats, learn about fish, benthic layer of a river, and more. The NYHS also serves team sports where a student can pick that are not necessarily water related such as baseball, soccer, basketball and volleyball and compete in PSAL tournoments.
[edit] Future
New York Harbor School is going to move to Governor’s Island.
The project is to reloacate the NYHS away from Bushwick because many classes often required a tiresome, time consuming distance travel to the New York Harbors by means of inconvenience transportation, mostly subway, and greatly reduced time efficiency. Ideally, a close location about the NYC's waterways were initially preferred. Recently in 2006, a perfect location for such movement had been approved by the government, the New York Harbor School is going to move to Governor's Island. In the middle of New York Harbor which will become the school's outdoor research laboratory for applied learning. It might between 2008 or 2009 ^_^
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