Ways and Means of Getting School Buildings in NYC

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

In this episode of the League of Women Voters' weekly program "What Makes New York City Run?", host Betty Shack discusses with Adrian Blumenfeld of the Board of Education the process by which schools are built, in particular the means by which locations are chosen and the "philosophy" of building.



Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 150604
Municipal archives id: T2463

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