Timeline & Notable Graduates

1886

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

The Statue of Liberty, Dedicated in 1886

• Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
  With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
  Here at our sea-washed sunset-gates shall stand
  A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
  Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
  Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
  Glows world-wide welcome, her mild eyes command
  The air-bridged harbor that twin-cities frame.
  
  "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she,
  With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
  Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
  The wretched refuse of your teeming shore;
  Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
  I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
  - Emma Lazarus

The Wider World

• October 28th, 1886,
  Statue of Liberty dedicated.

1891

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

• Architect BJ Snyder
  Architect Charles B.J. Snyder is appointed Superintendent of School Buildings, Manhattan and annexed district of the Bronx; he designs dozens of new NYC schools, including Stuyvesant HS, and serves until 1923.

1893

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

• The Manual Training High School is organized in Brooklyn (later to be Brooklyn Technical High School).

1897/1898

The Coney Island Steeplechase Park

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

• Oct. 21, 1897, The Board of Superintendents plans to establish a manual training school in Manhattan and resolve to name it Stuyvesant High School.
• Jan. 1, 1898, Incorporation of the City of New York.

The Wider World

• Steeple Chase opens
• Marconi successfully transmits wireless code across the English Channel

1899

Stuyvesant and NYC Public Schools

• William H. Maxwell
  William H. Maxwell, first Superintendent of Schools, on the creation of a manual training high school in Manhattan:
• "It is now realized that the manual training high school in the teaching the use of tools, without aiming at making craftsmen, and teaching the practical application of science and art to industry, forms the best preparation for life in the case of those who have a mechanical turn of mind and who intend to devote themselves to any kind of manufacturing industry. Experience has also demonstrated that the keenness of observation, deftness of hand, and mental ingenuity developed by work of the manual training high school constitute the best possible preparation for entrance to a medical school or one of the great scientific schools."