The Poppenhusen Institute will be celebrating the unveiling of a long-awaited elevator on June 2. Also, the 150th anniversary of the sturdy old Queens building, the site of the first free kindergarten in the United States.
Those two celebrations are more related than you’d think they’d be, according to Susan Brustmann, executive director of the institute. The kindergarten represents the civic spirit of the institute’s past. The elevator is potential for the future.