Stuyvesant High School — Battery Park City campus
Joseph’s 1990 project helped build Stuyvesant’s new Battery Park City home.
The Chambers Street entrance of the Battery Park City campus today.
Undated · Photo: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Why this project matters
- Project identity
- Verified
- Kelly connection
- Corroborated
- Masonry scope
- Probable
Rita’s list
Transcription: Stuyvesant High School — 1990
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
KM-199
2 of two
“Stuyvesant High School — 1990”
The new campus rose on a 1.5-acre site in then-still-developing Battery Park City. The school community insisted on a pedestrian bridge over West Street before agreeing to the move.
Stuyvesant's Battery Park City campus was one of New York's major late-1980s public-school projects, built during the exact period Rita recorded. Finding Kelly in its contract files could turn a strong family/company memory into direct period proof.
v3.3 contractor chain added: NYC Board of Education owner; Battery Park City Authority developer; W.J. Barney Corp./M&T construction manager. Rita's 1990 entry lies squarely within May 1989–Sept. 1992 construction. | v3.6.12 photo selected and staged: KM-199_Stuyvesant_High_School_Battery_Park_City_campus.jpg
What Kelly did here
Corroborated
Probable
Likely: most likely CMU/concrete-block classroom, corridor, service and fire-rated walls, with exterior brick/block wall systems where the school/library used masonry cladding.
This scope is recorded as probable, not documented. It is a disciplined reading of the building and the trade practice of the period, not a contract-level record of Kelly’s work.
Robert Massina, principal/president of Kelly Masonry, lists Stuyvesant High School among Kelly projects in his professional profile. This materially corroborates Rita's entry but remains retrospective rather than a period contract.
The construction team
- 01Owner / client
New York City Board of Education
- 02Architect
Cooper Robertson & Partners; Gruzen Samton Steinglass
- 03GC / construction manager
W.J. Barney Corp. / M&T Construction Managers
- 04Masonry
Kelly Masonry
What happened to it
Still standing
Sources
5 citedOpen →
- 01insideinside.org
stuyvesant high school
- 02usmodernist.org
AIANY 1992 11
- 03stuyalumni.org
flashback feature stuyvesants journey to 345 chambers
- 04commons.wikimedia.org
File:Stuyvesant High School main entrance on Chambers Street.jpg
- 05
- Unattributed · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The Chambers Street entrance of the Battery Park City campus today.
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