Catholic Church and City Stick It to Fort Greene
Here’s a rumor straight out of The Da Vinci Code…The eight-story pre-war building on the corner of Clermont and Greene has been home to a group of priests for years. According to a tipster who lives nearby, the priests began moving out last week to make room for the building’s new occupants: 155 juvenile delinquents….
Here’s a rumor straight out of The Da Vinci Code…The eight-story pre-war building on the corner of Clermont and Greene has been home to a group of priests for years. According to a tipster who lives nearby, the priests began moving out last week to make room for the building’s new occupants: 155 juvenile delinquents. The Catholic Church reportedly has leased the entire building to the City which obviously feels that Fort Greene is getting too nice. After a neighborhood has spent a couple decades pulling itself up by its heels, why not throw up another roadblock. Anyone have further details?
Update: It appears that the Church is partnering with a non-profit group called ANCHOR to create an urban boarding school, 15 or 20 of whose students will be housed in this building. It’s unclear if the rest of the building will continue to house priests.
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How about someone consider changing the title of this blog? Just a thought.
As someone who attended Deerfield Academy, one of the top boarding schools in the US, I learned the value of a rural Boarding Preparatory environment to a young man from the city.
I am also proud to be the Director of the aforementioned urban Boarding School Program at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School. When you mention a Boarding School in a rural environment, it makes sense, right? An urban Boarding School may be a new concept to grasp, but it benefits great kids of amazing character and potential, who apply for and receive a $20,000+ scholarship to high school.
(Yes, they not only “need it” as might be implied if you label them “at-risk” youth… they earned it through a competitive process!)
I hope you all can respect that as their new neighbors.
If you can not embrace this concept, it is quite fortunate that negative blog postings can’t hold these young men back from success. Coming from diverse and challenging backgrounds in some cases, their resolve is quite amazing and inspires me to go to work every day.
They each deserve four years in the beautiful building that sits on the corner of Greene and Clermont on a school campus that is becoming more prominent and beautiful every day, even in the shadow of neighborhood colleges like Pratt and St. Joseph’s.
Thanks to many of you readers and staff for your positive corrections to an initially disappointing blog. Best wishes to you all for 2007.
Sorry, 2006.
I am a teacher at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, and I am shocked by the overt racism that is evident in the exchanges occuring during June of 2007!
No way. Brownstoner put his own nasty spin on the information he received. He didn’t quote you as saying that the city was going to, “stick it to Fort Greene.” Why are you taking credit for his being hysterical? He didn’t even have his facts straight when he posted this information. Why couldn’t he pick up the phone and call the diocese or the school or something? And let’s give credit to Bishop Loughlin for pulling down the wood they had for so many years surrounding their school yard. Not it doesn’t feel like they are so separated from the community. And I’d personally like to thank the church for attending to those in need. I live nearby and the FGA has had mtgs with the Brooklyn DA’s office who has kindly informed us in the past that it’s really important to incorporate people who have had a rough time in their past in to the community. They were talking about released ex-cons. But I imagine that kids who have had it rough could especially need to feel that they are welcome in the neighborhood as long as they play by the same rules as the rest of the community.
OK. I was alerted early on about the ‘hysterical’ account from a neighbor. I suggested contacting brownstoner. He got hurt for it. But you know what, thanks to this blog we found out. As for all the racially charged retoric that is the other less desirable element here not stoner. He has helped us find out the truth.
Sorry brownstoner.
I find it interesting that some of those suffering NIMBYism on this thread are the first to accuse DDDB of Nimbyism re AY. Guess none of us are immune. I’m with CHP regarding kids. They are the future and if they don’t turn out well we can only blame ourselves.
i don’t see any problems with bringing in disadvantaged youth. Who else will the priests abuse?