Sep. 9, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Arthur de Gaeta On Sept. 4, for the first time in 169 years, Visitation Academy in Bay Ridge was quiet on the first day of classes. The school permanently closed its doors last summer, with the monastery soon to follow. Generations of alumni attended a Thanksgiving service…
Sep. 4, 2024 By Gabriele Holtermann Middle school students from the now-closed Visitation Academy were welcomed to their new academic home on Sept. 3, as Fontbonne Hall Academy cut the ribbon on its new middle school, The Visitation Program. The all-girls Catholic high school, a ministry of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, adopted The…