Fearing development, a push is on for landmark status at what was the last segregated school in Manhattan

New Yorkers are pushing to win landmark status for a vacant, three-story building in Chelsea that a local historian uncovered as the last-standing school in Manhattan for Black students from when the system was formally segregated in the 19th century.

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