Gothamist: What's Wrong with This Picture?

patrick

Mon, 01 May 2006 08:10:10 -0500

^^^ That's great...that is certainly a nice piece of history. I'm in favor.

Will F.

Mon, 01 May 2006 01:01:43 -0500

Actually, the facade of the building is protected as a historical monument. The name's not going anywhere anytime soon.

Catherine

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 19:45:19 -0500

Max: Apology accepted. ;) Cute link. And I wasn't agreeing with it being taken down. I rather like the sign being there, and while I don't have any emotional attchment to the building (as I was a new Stuy grad), I think it's a cool bit of history. Or at the very least, not hurting anyone. I just think I took offense at the tone and silliness of the renaming issue. I might have just been hungry though, cause re-reading it doesn't seem to steam my pot anymore. Go figure. Possibly representing my half of the sex? Score one for the irrational mood swing cliches!

K

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:39:52 -0500

i would just like to add that any new yorker that doesn't know who peter stuyvesant is should be deported back to their home state.

Bronx Science

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:38:50 -0500

Bronx Science envy? Is that what's happening in that photo? Am I right?!

Samantha

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:30:57 -0500

I think they wanted to tear the whole facade down a few years ago and the building was made an historic monument. So it'll never change.

Max

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:51:08 -0500

Catherine, you're half right. I was being a bit of a douche (just representing my half of the sex?) but still, what purpose would it serve to take that Stuy carving out and put in a new one? Aren't there in fact a few schools now in that building? And aren't there like ten bajillion better ways that the DoE could be spending their not nearly limitless cash? It's not like the old building is ever going to stop being the old Stuy - well, until they tear it down to build some condos... And just to be clear, I am well aware that the name of Stuyvesant Square predates the school. Sorry again for being such a douche.

Catherine

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:32:05 -0500

Hey, Max... I think the point is that it is no longer Stuyvesant High School and is now Health and Human Services (at least it was 6 years ago). It's not as if the rest of the surroundings need to be renamed, and even as an ex-Stuy kid I'm not arrogant enough to think the square and the 'town' were so named because of my high school. In other words, quit being such a douche.

Cheng-Jih Chen

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:20:04 -0500

You young whippersnappers with your fancy building and escalators. In my day, that was Stuyvesant High School, and we'd have to climb up up five flights of crowded stairs every period, carrying all our books for the day because we didn't have lockers, and we liked it.

Max

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:48:16 -0500

Oh yeah, the DoE totes should have bothered getting up there and redoing that. Yeah, and while they're at it the city should of also bothered to rename that square to the west of the building, and probably the 'town' to the east, right?