 During the first few years the school was located in on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on West 93rd Street, west of Broadway.Early on, students created programs in which they worked off-site for part of the day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, PACE College, The New School for Social Research, the Ben Fernandez School of Photography, and other organizations and institutions.The first graduation consisted of just a few students, and took place on the street in front of the West 93rd Street building in June 1975.