PS 9 Sarah Anderson School
7-31-1922 Birmingham, AL - d. 2-2-1981 Griffin, GA), a beloved school paraprofessional and parent for whom the Board of Education renamed PS 9 at a May 1981 memorial dedication.
Sarah Anderson is buried at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery, Griffin, GA.
On July 19, 1830, the Society completed the construction of a one-story clapboard school at 466 West End Avenue for $1,500, accommodating about 50 children.
Large stoves and stovepipes beneath the stairs and elsewhere, used for warming the building, were dangerously close to the woodwork.
From 1894-96,[5] the Board erected a modern school building on the same site equipped with electricity and ventilation, and designed by C. B. J. Snyder.
Designed to blend with the neighborhood, the ecclesiastical English gothic structure was a style prevalent in schools built by Trinity Church.
The School Board and Superintendent John Jacob Theobald approved the West 84th Street site for P.S.
[9] The new building was part of plan to spend one billion dollars on New York City school construction over a ten-year period that began in the late 1950s.
It was part of a larger concerted pilot project by Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner’s "All-Out War on the Forces of Crime."
[11] For a cost of $2.4 million, Rand Construction Company erected the current three-story building at 100 West 84th Street at Columbus.
[15] Failure to check the Viélé and MacCoun maps is considered a cardinal sin for construction engineers.
According to Eugene Edward Hult, Superintendent of Design, Construction and Physical Plant for the BOE, the underground stream was "more like a pond," about two feet wide; there was earth but no rock, which required the redesign for a new foundation.
In the 1950s, many architects used the older red brick for apartment buildings — although its use in public housing projects gave it an unwelcome tinge for the luxury market.
The architects of public schools in the mid-1950s began incorporating color into their buildings, like the yellow-glazed brick on PS 41.
34,[18] erected in 1956 at 12th Street and Avenue D, outraged City Controller Lawrence Ettore Gerosa, who, in well-publicized hearings in 1958, accused the BOE of wasteful extravagance.
West 83rd Street, on the same block, also is home to the Planetarium Station Post Office, the New York City Fire Department, several parking garages, and car rental companies.
On March 30, 1972, in an effort to extend Mayor Wagner's fight against crime in the neighborhood, Mayor John V. Lindsay moved the New York City Police Department 20th Precinct from West 68th Street to 120 West 82nd Street (one block from the school) into a newly built $2.8 million three-story building.
