Park East Day School

Park East Day School is a traditional Jewish day school, located on the Upper East Side of the Borough of Manhattan, in New York City. It includes an early childhood program, an elementary school, and a middle school, graduating students after eighth grade.

In 1976 Rabbi Arthur Schneier founded Park-East's early childhood facility (a nursery school). [ Goldman, Victoria; Hausman, Catherine. "The Manhattan Family Guide to Private Schools and Selective Public Schools". New York : Soho Press, 2001, p. 403. ] In 1981, the nursery school merged with the East Side Hebrew Institute ("ESHI"), once one of the major Jewish institutions of the Lower East Side, [ Sanders, Ronald. "The Lower East Side: A Guide to Its Jewish Past with 99 New Photographs". New York : Dover Publications, 1979, p. 29.] which had classes ranging from Nursery Kindergarten and up to the 12th grade. [ Raiskin, Shlomy. “'The 70 good years' – Manhattan’s 'Zitomir Talmud Torah Darchei Noam' and 'East Side Hebrew Institute' (E.S.H.I.) – 1910–1981". "Dor LeDor", 25 (2005), pp.158–172.] The new merged school was named "Park East ESHI". Several years later, the new school board omitted the word "ESHI" and in 1990 they renamed the school after Rabbi Arthur Schneier. Today, the school is run by Principal Barbara T. Etra, and houses approximately 300 students.

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* [http://www.parkeastdayschool.org Park East's Website]