The Children's Storefront Explained

The Children's Storefront was a tuition-free private school in Harlem, founded in 1966 by the poet Ned O'Gorman.^[1] It was the subject of a 1988 documentary film, The Children's Storefront, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.^[2]

External links

• Listing at New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS)
• The Children's Storefront School Website:
• Ned O'Gorman at poets.org
• Ned O'Gorman Papers at Georgetown University

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Notes and References

1. O'Gorman, Ned. The Storefront: A Community of Children on 129th Street and Madison Avenue. Harper/Colophon Books, 1970, pp. 4-9.
2. Web site: NY Times: The Children's Storefront . https://web.archive.org/web/20121016201316/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/141086/The-Children-s-Storefront/details . dead . 2012-10-16 . Movies & TV Dept. . . . 2012 . 2008-12-03.