NYC Public Schools reopened, and CYD returned to serve students in-person at three partner high schools.

CYD hosts its first annual Spelling Bee for Grownups fundraiser.

Howard Friedman and Brooke Astor, who donated an endowment to refurbish Manhattan Comprehensive’s historic library and pay for its upkeep in perpetuity.

The building that now houses Manhattan Comprehensive Night & Day High School and Comprehensive Youth Development is built as the free Hebrew Technical School for Girls, to introduce young immigrant women to academics, millinery, and office work.

Manhattan Comprehensive is founded by Howard Friedman to serve older, undercredited students in a night program to allow them to work during the day. First graduating class: 25 students. Volunteers step in to provide tutoring and college advisement.

Volunteers incorporate Comprehensive Development, Inc. as a nonprofit to serve Manhattan Comprehensive students. As a fledgling organization, CDI formalizes services and adds support.

CDI and Manhattan Comprehensive collaborate to design and fund the addition of a sixth floor to the school for science labs.

Ten years after incorporating, Manhattan Comprehensive has become the largest transfer school in the city and CDI is serving 800 students. CDI is awarded its first government contract with Learning to Work, which stabilizes funding and allows us to expand student services.