Grace Church School is a private school whose original building is located at 86 Fourth Avenue between East 10th and East 12th Streets in the East Village neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The school was founded in 1894 by the Grace Church as the first choir boarding school in New York City. The private day school, which much resembles the school today, began in 1934. Grace Church School's High School Division opened in 2012 and is located at 46 Cooper Square. In the 2015–2016 school year, the school opened for the first time as a Junior Kindergarten through 12th grade program.
Historic landmarked church house along 4th Avenue provides space for Junior Kindergarten through Grade 8
Cooper Square is a junction of streets in Lower Manhattan in New York City located at the confluence of the neighborhoods of Bowery to the south, NoHo to the west and southwest, Greenwich Village to the west and northwest, the East Village to the north and east, and the Lower East Side to the southeast.
Cooper Square looking uptown in 1957
Cooper Square looking uptown in 2008
The Cooper Union's Foundation Building has anchored the north end of the square since 1859
The monument to Peter Cooper sits between the Foundation Building and the park at Cooper Triangle