'Ol' Blue Eyes' Gets Hoisted In L.I.C.

Iron workers at the future site of the Frank Sinatra High School on 35th Avenue in Long Island City hoisted a beam "their way" last week, leaving a dedication to the classy crooner when they wrote "Ol' Blue Eyes" in bright, orange paint on one side of the beam, while the other side reads, "For Frank Sinatra".

The Frank Sinatra School of the Arts was founded in 2001 by the singer Tony Bennett, to honor his good friend Frank Sinatra. The school was originally in the fourth floor of the IDCNY building in Long Island City, where the small student population walked down a single bright blue hallway to get from class to class. In 2005, FSSA moved across the street to the sixth and seventh floors of the Queens Atrium Building. (The DeVry, Long Island City campus and two other smaller high schools are located in the eight floor building.)

In September 2008, the school will move to a permanent building which is now being constructed near the Museum of the Moving Image and Kaufman Astoria Studios building where students will be allowed to study film. The musical theater group will be opened as a separate studio.

Internationally renowned entertainer Tony Bennett shows renderings of the new home for the Frank Sinatra High School of the Arts in 2005.

The high school will eventually have a 1,000-student capacity.