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Inspired by the civil rights movement, Manhattan Country School educated the children of aristocrats and undocumented immigrants. Then it got into real estate.
By Ginia Bellafante
Ginia Bellafante writes the Big City column, a weekly commentary on the politics, culture and life of New York City.
In early October, parents at Manhattan Country School were panicked to find out in the pages of the business press that their school faced foreclosure. For nearly 60 years, families had been coming to Manhattan Country for its scrappy intimacy and a dedication to equity that went well beyond performative rhetoric and the reductive simplicities of D.E.I. Inc. But now it was not clear how much longer this sustained utopia on the Upper West Side could persist.
