Washington Irving Campus

The Washington Irving Campus is a public school building located at 40 Irving Place between East 16th and 17th Streets in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, near Union Square.

In the period that Hector Xavier Monsegur (Sabu) attended Irving, 55% of the school's students graduated with their classes.

[7] The New York City Department of Education announced in December 2011 that WIHS would be one of two high schools to be closed by summer 2015.

On February 25, 2016, a fire broke out in the building after an electrical explosion, resulting in the campus to be closed for an unspecified amount of time.

[13][14] One enters the lobby through the main doors, which are opposite a grand decorative fireplace.

It features a plaster bas-relief overmantel, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by sculptor Frances Grimes.

Above the lobby's oak-paneled walls are 12 murals by Barry Faulkner depicting the early history of New York.

Students enter the building from East 16th Street, swipe their ID cards, and go through metal detectors while their belongings go through a security X-ray scanner.