In her view, Sanders had succeeded by gathering strands of recent radicalism: the 2011 occupation of the Wisconsin state house by public-sector workers, Occupy Wall Street, student-debt resistance, the 2012 Chicago Teachers Union strike, Fight for Fifteen, and the economic-justice wing of Black Lives Matter.
At the corner of 97th Street, students were arriving at De La Salle Academy, a private middle school on the block.
On a rise across the street, students from one of the high school seminaries were cleaning up a playground and planting flowers.
At the school, located with the company on West 55th Street, students can study a wide range of dance styles, from modern to jazz to classical ballet.
But at La Guardia High School, the city's top performing arts school, just across the street, students and teachers were all in costume.
One block east of Stuyvesant on Chambers Street, students would normally have a clear view south down Greenwich Street toward 7 World Trade Center, where a smoldering stack of rubble remains, several stories tall.
Across the street, students bustled around a lawn outside the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall.
Today, eleven city blocks southwest down Beaubien Street, students at the College for Creative Studies file into a cavernous studio space.
In the streets, student protesters have compelled the country's supreme spiritual leader to order an appeals court review of the death sentence given to a history professor for saying that Muslims should not "blindly" follow clerical authority.
Riots erupted in the streets, students took over campuses, bombs went off, and institutions of all kind were attacked.
At a recent reception for admitted students at the New York Public Library on 42nd Street, current students wooed newly admitted students with accounts of their experiences.
