For years, New York City Department of Sanitation workers ate their lunch in a three-story yellow brick building on West 17th Street in Chelsea without knowing about its history: It was once a colored school that served Black Americans during racial segregation in New York City public schools.On Tuesday, city officials voted to designate the building, which had been known as Colored School No. 4, a protected landmark, and announced that they would provide $6 million in funding to rehabilitate it.
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