New York School for the Deaf
The New York School for the Deaf is a private school for the deaf in Greenburgh, New York, in Westchester County just north of New York City, United States. It is private non-profit tax-exempt organization under article 501(c)(3) of U.S. law. History The school had its origins in 1808, when the Rev. John Stanford gathered a small group of deaf children to teach them the alphabet and basic language skills in New York City. The New York School for the Deaf was chartered in 1817 as the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb. It held its first classes in New York City in 1818, just after the American School for the Deaf, and thus is recognized as the second oldest deaf school in the United States. In 1829 it would move uptown to 49th Street and Madison Avenue. In 1856, this location would be sold to Columbia College (now Columbia University) and served as the site of Columbia's Madison Avenue campus. After the 1857 move, it would move to Upper Manhattan to an area then known as Carmansville. In 1892, the school was the first U.S. school of any kind to introduce a military curriculum.