Friday, February 12, 2010

Old St. Mary's School Gets Recycled

While using hundred-year-old farming tools to dig my car out of the recent snowfall, I thought that to be the ultimate in "repurposing". However, the Brooklyn Eagle is reporting that the old St. Mary Star of the Sea school on Court Street will now house the International School of Brooklyn, a specialized bi-lingual primary school.

"ISB was launched by Dr. Habiba Boumlik and Executive Director Rebecca Skinner in March 2003. “We are thrilled to once again expand ISB to reach our goals for growth and development and to continue to meet the needs of Brooklyn families for quality education with a global outlook,” said Skinner. The new location is scheduled to open its doors to pre-K through fourth grade students in September."

Although I am excited at the bi-lingual mandate of this school, another vestige of Old Carroll Gardens bites the dust.

via Brownstoner.

5 comments:

  1. Actually PMFA got the story first over a week ago (amongst many other stories that appear in the Courier,The Brooklyn Paper, The New York Post, The Daily News with no credit) yet another newspaper using the blogs to find stories.

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  2. Who comes here for breaking news? It's a nice take on things and has some content that adds to the story. And who cares where the news comes from? Its still news.

    And yes, Michael, as a Catholic and Star Wars fan, I always think "and also with you!"

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  3. Sorry, meant the "also with you" for the next post.

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  4. Just sayin: why dont you get on Browstoner?

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  5. Ha; if this is an example of a newspaper using a blog to find it's stories, isn't this also an example of a blog using a newspaper to find it's stories?

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