Please see the press release dated 7.9.2020 HERE.
The two closures in the borough of Brooklyn are Queen of the Rosary, Williamsburg, and St. Gregory the Great.
Queen of the Rosary Catholic Academy has occupied 11 Catherine Street (former St. Nicholas Commercial High School) in East Williamsburg for several years. The academy was Our Lady of Mount Carmel school "on the move."
In similar fashion, St. Gregory the Great Catholic Academy moved from its location on St. John's Place to the property of Holy Cross parish on Church Avenue a distance away.
Showing posts with label Queen of the Rosary Catholic Academy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Queen of the Rosary Catholic Academy. Show all posts
Thursday, July 9, 2020
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Queen of the Rosary Catholic Academy
Sorry, this school closed permanently in 2020. In September, 2013, Queen of the Rosary Catholic Academy moved into new quarters at 11 Catherine Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY 11211. The telephone number is 718-388-7992. The former St. Nicholas Commercial High School was renovated for the Academy as a state-of-the-art facility.
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In a sense, this Catholic Academy replaced four parish schools: St. Cecilia, Holy Trinity (more recently named Sts. Joseph and Dominic), Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and St. Nicholas.
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In a sense, this Catholic Academy replaced four parish schools: St. Cecilia, Holy Trinity (more recently named Sts. Joseph and Dominic), Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and St. Nicholas.
Monday, April 15, 2013
St. Cecilia, Greenpoint
The church of St. Cecilia is now one of three worship sites within the new Divine Mercy parish, established in 2011. An office is maintained at 84 Herbert Street, but the principal office and rectory is at 219 Conselyea Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211.
Queen of the Rosary Catholic Academy is less than a mile south of St. Cecilia's.
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.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Williamsburg
Above is the intersection of Havemeyer St. and North 8th St. About fifty years ago, the older church was in the way of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. In a sense, Robert Moses paid for the new church.
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On the parish website, please notice the Saints Chapel. I was unable to count the devotions to Mary (under many titles) and the saints.
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Architects did not consider the difficulty some people have climbing steps, as I observed before Mass 3.27.2010.
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On the parish website, please notice the Saints Chapel. I was unable to count the devotions to Mary (under many titles) and the saints.
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Architects did not consider the difficulty some people have climbing steps, as I observed before Mass 3.27.2010.
The size of the parish might be judged by the number of Masses scheduled on weekends. In August, 2016, it is four in English, one in Italian, plus two at the nearby Church of the Annunciation: one in Lithuanian, and one in Spanish.
Above is the former parish school at 10 Withers Street. Catholic elementary education is now provided at Queen of the Rosary Catholic Academy, 11 Catherine Street. Clicking on any photo will enlarge it.
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Two of the above photos show a new, taller building on Union Avenue behind the church and school. This is a rather typical view of Williamsburg and Greenpoint in 2010. Among houses of two or three stories are higher modern condos, perhaps not yet fully sold. One encounters these structures on all shapes of tracts, small or large, buildings of three centuries in a block.
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On February 16, 2019, the Tablet reported that Msgr. Jamie Gigantiello is pastor of the MERGED parishes of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Annunciation. The merger will be celebrated at an 11 a.m. Mass at Annunciation on March 24, 2019.
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Two of the above photos show a new, taller building on Union Avenue behind the church and school. This is a rather typical view of Williamsburg and Greenpoint in 2010. Among houses of two or three stories are higher modern condos, perhaps not yet fully sold. One encounters these structures on all shapes of tracts, small or large, buildings of three centuries in a block.
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On February 16, 2019, the Tablet reported that Msgr. Jamie Gigantiello is pastor of the MERGED parishes of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Annunciation. The merger will be celebrated at an 11 a.m. Mass at Annunciation on March 24, 2019.
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
St. Nicholas, Olive Street, Williamsburg
Effective January 31, 2011, the historic parish of St. Nicholas was merged with two other parishes to form the parish of Divine Mercy. Olive Street, Williamsburg, is about two miles inland from the East River, away from the center of Williamsburg. Here is St. Nicholas parish, founded about 1865 for Germans too distant from Montrose Avenue and Most Holy Trinity parish. 
The Dominican Sisters of Amityville staffed this school for many years.---
Please view the website of Queen of the Rosary Catholic Academy at 11 Catherine Street.
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