Apr. 8, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen After years of uncertainty, the city will move forward with plans to build a new elementary school at 257 Franklin St. in Greenpoint, across the street from the NuHart Plastics state Superfund site. The building’s design is far from finished, but it’s expected to offer 450 seats across…
Feb. 11, 2025 Kirstyn Brendlen & Adam Daly Low enrollment and financial struggles will bring the end for another Catholic school in Brooklyn this summer. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Academy in Sunset Park will permanently close at the end of the school year in June, its Board of Trustees announced last week,…
Jan. 14, 2025 By Lauren Rapp Educators at Patrick F. Daly P.S. 15 in Red Hook are urging the community to step up and support 20 migrant families whose children have enrolled at the school amid New York City’s ongoing migrant crisis. P.S. 15, a small 3K through fifth grade elementary school on Sullivan…
Oct. 31, 2024 By Jada Camille The city on Wednesday unveiled the new and improved basketball courts at Breukelen Ballfield in East New York. With a significant investment from the Social Justice Fund — run by Clara Wu Tsai, who owns the Brooklyn Nets and the New York Liberty alongside her husband Joe Tsai…
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…
Sep. 4, 2024 By Megan McGibney Brooklyn’s public schools will start the new school year on Sept. 5, but some will be without after-school programs. As the 2023-24 school year ended, Albany altered the funding structure for after-school programs. The New York State Learning and Enrichment After-School Program Supports, a new initiative by the state’s…
Aug. 21, 2024 By Jada Camille Coney Island Prep is teaming up with The Alliance for Coney Island to ease the stress of back-to-school planning with a free community fair on Aug. 24. Families with students in Pre-K through 8th grade can head to Kaiser Park for free perks and activities before kiddos return…
Aug. 19, 2024 By Natalie Dahan A Bed-Stuy elementary school school will be re-named to honor slain NYPD officer Detective Rafael Ramos, who was shot and killed in the neighborhood in 2014. The school, P.S. 54 on Sandord Street, will officially take Ramos’ name during a ceremony on Sept. 13, according to the Detective…
Aug. 1, 2024 By Natalie Dahan
A French language preschool in Boerum Hill will expand to Clinton Hill at the start of the new school year in September.