Adaptive Reuse: Historic Courthouse To Charter School
9 March 2008 - 9:00am
The 93-year old Bronx Borough Courthouse will soon become a charter school.
"A 93-year-old South Bronx courthouse that has been designated a landmark but has been boarded up for years will become a charter school in the fall, officials said last week.
The Bronx Borough Courthouse, with a Tennessee marble statue of Justice — without a blindfold — will reopen in September as a school for kindergarten through second grade and will expand by a grade a year until it reaches the eighth grade.
The school will be called the Bronx Academy of Promise Charter School and will be run by Imagine Schools, a nonprofit organization based in Arlington, Va., said Melody Meyer, a spokeswoman for the city’s Department of Education."
Source:
The New York Times, March 6, 2008
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