A New Home for Academy of American Studies

The city will build a new school in Dutch Kills to house the students at Academy of American Studies, who currently have to share space with Newcomers High School at 28-01 41^st Avenue.  DNAInfo is reporting that the new 4-story school will be located at 40-11 28^th St and will open in Fall 2021.

Academy of American Studies was founded in 1996 by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Students currently occupy two buildings in Dutch Kills: no plans announced yet for the building at 28-04 41^st Avenue which will be vacated when the school moves to its new home.

There are more schools coming to our neighborhood: two primary schools are included in the next phases of the Hunters Point South development, and another will be constructed as part of a project planned for city-owned land at the end of 44th Drive.

Newcomers High School,  photo credit Canadian Pacific via Flickr/Creative Commons

Clare Doyle

Clare Doyle is a graduate of the M.A. program in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. She also holds a Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Studies as well as a B.A. in Archaeology and History from University Dublin, Ireland. She has worked for 30 years in library reference publishing in New York. Clare is the Vice President of Green Shores NYC, a non-profit group that advocates for a cleaner, greener and more connected waterfront in Astoria and Long Island City