Queen of the Rosary Catholic Academy is less than a mile south of St. Cecilia's.
Clicking on any photo will enlarge it. The above photo was taken about a half-hour before the arrival of Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio.
St. Cecilia's parish, Greenpoint, has been merged into a new parish of Divine Mercy, which has three worship sites: Saint Francis of Paola (daily Mass, Sunday Vigil, and two Sunday Masses), St. Cecilia (daily Mass and one Sunday Mass), and St. Nicholas (two Sunday Masses).
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St. Cecilia's buildings take up almost the entire rectangle of the block bounded by North Henry, Herbert, Monitor, and Richardson Streets, the exception being a few private houses to the right in this photo. The parish was established in 1871. One year, it seems, almost 1,700 students were educated in the parish school, which closed in June, 2008.
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St. Cecilia's website is linked here. It is helpful to click on the word Bulletin, because that has been presenting an updated schedule of Masses, lists of the parish staff, and telephone numbers. The St. Cecilia website offers both recent and older information and photos.
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This blog includes an older post from 2012, which I hesitate to delete: Divine Mercy triple merger. Also, there is this post from 2009, St. Nicholas.
The cornerstone of this five-story school on Monitor Street, corner Richardson, bears the date 1906. Brother Albert Matthew, who began his teaching career here about 1928, related how the classrooms used gas lamps at that late date.
It is now the summer of 2016 and the above work has been done. Several buildings have been turned into rental apartments. The largest building, of course, is the former school (above) on Monitor Street. The second largest building is the former convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph, also on Monitor Street. Adjacent to the school, but on Richardson Street is a building that may have been used by a school employee and family. At 2 North Henry Street, but now using a Richardson Street number on the conversion permits, is the former house of the De La Salle Christian Brothers, which has been turned into either two or four apartments. The grand total is a large number of apartments in renovated parish structures, which were rented on a 49-year lease to the developers, that is, not sold by St. Cecilia's parish.
Between the school and former convent is a new flagpole and this memorial.
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This blog includes an older post from 2012, which I hesitate to delete: Divine Mercy triple merger. Also, there is this post from 2009, St. Nicholas.
The cornerstone of this five-story school on Monitor Street, corner Richardson, bears the date 1906. Brother Albert Matthew, who began his teaching career here about 1928, related how the classrooms used gas lamps at that late date.
It is now the summer of 2016 and the above work has been done. Several buildings have been turned into rental apartments. The largest building, of course, is the former school (above) on Monitor Street. The second largest building is the former convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph, also on Monitor Street. Adjacent to the school, but on Richardson Street is a building that may have been used by a school employee and family. At 2 North Henry Street, but now using a Richardson Street number on the conversion permits, is the former house of the De La Salle Christian Brothers, which has been turned into either two or four apartments. The grand total is a large number of apartments in renovated parish structures, which were rented on a 49-year lease to the developers, that is, not sold by St. Cecilia's parish.
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For decades, the Sisters of St. Joseph and the De La Salle Christian Brothers staffed the parish school. Sad to relate, Brother Andrew Gerard Duncanson, teacher at St. Cecilia's Boys' department 1962-1964 and principal there 1967-1969, passed away in Providence, Rhode Island, 8/28/2011, where he worked at La Salle Academy.
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