SCAN-HARBOR
HISTORY
SCAN-Harbor now has a combined 125+ years of experience serving youth and families in New York City!
History | 2019 – Present
2019
2019
SCAN and Boys & Girls Harbor complete a merger making SCAN-Harbor the largest youth service provider in East Harlem, Harlem and the South Bronx.
2021
2021
The T. Wendell Foster Center gets $1.8M refurbishment through a partnership with Garden of Dreams and NYC Parks.
2022
2022
SCAN-Harbor Performing Arts Students perform in San Diego commemorating the 1961 Freedom Rides.
History | 1937 – 2019
History | 1977 – 2019
1937
1937
Anthony "Tony" Drexel Duke founds The Harbor at the "Duck Island" site on Long Island. It begins as a summer camp for 12 disadvantaged boys from immigrant families.
1955
1955
Girls begin attending The Harbor.
1970
1970
The Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts is established.
1989
1989
GESTURES Dance Ensemble is established at The Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts for advanced dance students.
2000
2000
The Harbor Science and Arts Charter School opens. It is the first New York State chartered school located in East Harlem.
2012
2012
The Harbor supporters gather at the 20th Salute to Achievement Dinner to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of The Harbor.
1947
1947
The Harbor camp moves to Westport, CT.
1964
1964
The Harbor leases space in the Heckscher Building at 104th and Fifth Avenue.
1979
1979
The Raices Latin Music Museum is established and would become an affiliate of the Smithsonian.
1994
1994
Tony Duke relinquishes his long-held position as Chairman of the Board.
2005
2005
The Harbor’s Emily N. Carey School is founded to provide a nurturing educational environment for high school students who had not found success in other schools.
2016
2016
Diamonds in the Rough is published - a book chronicling the history of Boys and Girls Harbor through the stories of the children and families served by the organization.
1977
1977
SCAN is Founded by Nancy Fisher with a $50,000 Grant from the Eisman Foundation.
1988
1988
The Mayor’s Volunteer Service Award designates SCAN as the finest volunteer non-profit agency in NYC.
1991
1991
SCAN’s South Bronx-based Family Renewal Center becomes NYC’s first program providing targeted services to substance abusing parents and their children.
2005
2005
SCAN partners with “Jobs For Youth”, incorporating youth employment programming and completes Legal merger with East Harlem’s LaGuardia Memorial House finalized.
2014
2014
New DYCD contracts enable SCAN to simultaneously launch 6 new NYCHA-based Cornerstone Community Centers in East Harlem.
2018
2018
SCAN expands our multidisciplinary Preventive Services Family Treatment/ Rehabilitation Program for substance abusing parents today it serves 180 families at a given time, the largest such program in NYC.
1982
1982
The NYC Administration for Children's Services Provides SCAN's First Major government grant.
1990
1990
Youth Leadership Project is initiated. Jamel Oeser-Sweat is elected President of the inaugural SCAN Youth Council.
2000
2000
The Raices Latin Music Museum is established and would become an affiliate of the Smithsonian.
2009
2009
LGBTQ support programming launches, providing a vast array of supports to LGBTQ youth, while also achieving greater integration and inclusion among young people of all sexual orientations. We are the first inner-city youth-focused organization to launch such a program in a NYCHA community center.
2015
2015
Get Healthy, East Harlem, our youth-led/ NYCHA resident-driven healthy food program, launches in East Harlem serving more than 2,100 residents a year.
