This image was on Rogers Partners website along with a description of a building project at Trinity. The image has since been removed.
The Trinity School on West 91st street is the latest local private school looking to expand and upgrade, with plans to add two new stories on top of the school’s cafeteria. Trinity also wants to add new passageways, staircases and common areas to other parts of the building, a school spokesman says.
It’s a $21 million project, according to The Real Deal, which wrote briefly about the building permit application earlier this month. Since then, we’ve had mixed success in learning more. The image above was posted on the site of architects Rogers Partners, which also designed the Stephen Gaynor school on 89th street, but the image and a description of the project were later taken down. We checked in with the architects but never heard back.
A West Side Rag reporter was also escorted out of a meeting at Trinity about the project, because an organizer said it was a private meeting (there had been a flyer posted on streets around the school advertising the presentation).
We checked with the school and a spokesman sent a brief explanation of the project.
“Trinity is developing plans to renovate its facilities to provide more effective learning and activity spaces for students and faculty and to better serve its educational mission. The plans include adding two floors of classroom and other student spaces above the school’s existing cafeteria. The existing athletic field on the roof of the cafeteria will be preserved over this addition. Trinity also wishes to improve interior spaces to add greater instructional flexibility, relocate classes into spaces with more light and fresh air, optimize circulation by creating passageways, staircases and common areas that allow students—especially the school’s younger children—to move more efficiently through the school, increase accessibility for differently-abled individuals, and upgrade the buildings’ mechanical and HVAC systems.
We are currently meeting with our neighbors and elected officials to brief them on our initial plans.”
It’s not clear if the plans will have to go before a landmarks board, as the school itself is landmarked.
