Boys & Girls Harbor
One East 104th Street, the organization's main building.
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| Formation | 1937 |
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| Founder | Anthony Drexel Duke |
| Type | Educational |
| Headquarters | One East 104th Street (at Fifth Avenue) New York City, New York 10029 United States |
| Website | theharbor |
Boys & Girls Harbor, Inc. (formerly called Boys Harbor) is an American educational organization, headquartered in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York.
Founded by Anthony Drexel Duke in 1937, as a sleepaway summer camp for boys in East Hampton, New York, the organization has grown into several programs.
The Harbor was one of the first organizations to launch a charter school in New York state and has since then created programs that include pre-school, extended day tutoring, literacy training, substance-abuse prevention, college preparation, workforce readiness, and a conservatory for the performing arts.
Three-quarters of the students range from the ages of 6 to 17 and are 56 percent African American, 35 percent Latino, and 9 percent from another heritage. The constituents average a general population of 53 percent male and 47 percent female. Most of the students live in East or Central Harlem (67 percent), but 17 percent live in The Bronx, 6 percent live in Brooklyn, 5 percent live in Queens, and the remaining 5 percent live elsewhere in the tri-state area.
Duke, a member of the Duke family and a descendant of the Biddle and Drexel families, attended St. Paul's School, a preparatory school in Concord, New Hampshire, and in 1941, graduated from Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey.
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