DeWitt Clinton High School

DeWitt Clinton High School is an American high school located in the Bronx, New York City, New York. Clinton opened in 1897 at 60 West 13th Street at the northern end of Greenwich Village under the name of Boys High School, although this Boys High School was not related to the one in Brooklyn. This school was renamed for New York politician DeWitt Clinton in 1900. In 1906 it moved to a newly constructed building on Tenth Avenue between 58th Street and 59th Street in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood—the same year as the opening of the nearby DeWitt Clinton Park where students "farmed" plots in what was the first community garden in New York. The school's H-shaped building, designed by Charles B. J. Snyder, was said to be the biggest high...