Public School 116, the Mary Lindley Murray School, is a public school administered by the New York City Department of Education on the of Manhattan, near the border between the Murray Hill and Kips Bay neighborhoods. An elementary school, it serves pupils in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade.
The school building is located on East 33rd Street between Second and Third Avenues, although the school yard extends through the block to East 32nd Street.
The first school building on the site was erected on East 32nd Street, where the present school yard is located, in 1868. [1] The 1857–62 Perris, W., Maps of the city of New York show the approximate location of the present school yard as a cleared site while the rest of the block is filled with typical townhouses. [2] The 1879 Bromley, G.W. Atlas of the entire city of New York shows the site of the school yard with a building labeled 'Primary School No. 16.' In 1897, the former "Primary" schools in the city were renumbered and given "Public School" numbers that were 100 greater than their former Primary School numbers, which meant that Primary School No. 16 became Public School No. 116. [3] The current main school building was built in 1924, when the building on 33rd Street was demolished and replaced by the school yard. A three-story wing was added to the east of the building in 1960. [4]
The school has long cultivated a diverse community. The New York Times reported in 1964 that of the school's 635 students, "Half are Spanish‐speaking, 5 per cent are Negro, 5 per cent are Chinese," and that the school community hoped to maintain its diversity among urban renewal. [5] In 1992 it was reported that students hailed "from 50 countries" and that "30 arrived from Romania" in the last year. [6]
PS 116 had one of the first gifted and talented programs in New York, beginning with a pilot program in 1973. [7] The gifted and talented program at PS 116 was phased out in 2012. [8]
The school suffered from overcrowding, operating at 120% of capacity in 2011, prior to the opening of the River School, which reduced the size of its attendance zone. [9]
Murray Hill is a neighborhood on the east side of Manhattan in New York City. Murray Hill is generally bordered to the east by the East River or Kips Bay and to the west by Midtown Manhattan, though the exact boundaries are disputed. Murray Hill is situated on a steep glacial hill that peaked between Lexington Avenue and Broadway. It was named after Robert Murray, the head of the Murray family, a mercantile family that settled in the area in the 18th century.
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