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12 June 2019 Posted. Left：Mrs. Carbone’s 6th grade class at P.S. 23, Courtesy of Richard Wong, Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Collection; Right：P.S. 23 Façade. Photograph taken by Emile Bocian. Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Collection. 左图：Carbone老师的第23公立小学6年级课堂，Richard Wong捐赠，美国华人博物馆（MOCA）馆藏；右图：第23公立小学正面，包信拍摄，美国华人博物馆（MOCA）馆藏

In 1891, new Superintendent of School Buildings Charles B.J. Snyder took on the task of revamping Manhattan’s entire school system. In his thirty-one years as superintendent, Snyder designed over 700 school buildings, the first being Public School 23 on Mulberry Street in New York’s Chinatown in 1891. The architecture was not only unconventional in style, but marked two brand new innovations：fire-proof construction and a basement auditorium that could act as a community space.

With its Lower East Side location, students from numerous immigrant backgrounds and even generations studied at P.S. 23：in 1905, the New-York Tribune called it “the school of twenty-nine nationalities.” In 1906, the flourishing P.S. 23 was the first school visited by a cohort of 500 teachers sent by Britain’s head of education to study the American school system. But by the 1970s, the middle class began leaving the neighborhood – with not enough children in attendance as many moved to P.S. 124 at the newly constructed Confucius Plaza.

P.S. 23 was shut down in the 1970s along with many other schools in poorer communities citywide. In 1984, MOCA (then the New York Chinatown History Project) moved into the second floor of the building and would host reunions for former P.S. 23 students and teachers in 1988 and 2003. The site at 70 Mulberry Street currently hosts the museum’s Research and Collections Center.

13 June 2019 Posted. Lung “Pop” Chin, master storyteller and Chinatown elder, was beloved by the generations of community youth with whom he worked, especially for organizing sports teams and events. Mr. Chin, shown here having just addressed the room, was key to organizing the 1988 reunion; Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Institutional Archives. Lung “Pop” Chin，故事大师和唐人街长老，深受年轻人爱戴，特别是他组织的体育队和运动项目。照片中正在讲话的他是MOCA组织1988年第23公立小学聚会的关键人物；美国华人博物馆（MOCA）机构档案

P.S. 23 Reunion Program

11 June 2019 Posted. 10 Episode TV Documentary Series Yung Wing, Courtesy of Zhuhai Television, Museum of Chinese in America(MOCA) Collection. 十集大型历史纪录片《容闳》，珠海电视台捐赠，美国华人博物馆（MOCA）馆藏