Argentines in Brooklyn

At first glance, it appears that two groups from Argentina work in Brooklyn parishes:
1) A religious congregation of Sisters, The Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matara, S.S.V.M., works in Sts. Peter and Paul, Williamsburg.
2) Members of the Institute of the Divine Word, I.V.E., work at Mary, Mother of the Church parish, 749 Linwood Street, New Lots.

Catherine McAuley HS to close

Sad to read, this announcement in the Tablet states that Catherine McAuley High School will close in June.  The school has educated students for decades at its location on East 37th Street near Foster Avenue.  It is named after the foundress of the Religious Sisters of Mercy.

An excellent map of elementary schools

The January 26, 2013, Brooklyn Tablet published an excellent map of 38 Catholic elementary schools in Brooklyn and 57 in the borough of Queens.  It is obvious that the intended conversion to the "Catholic academy" governance format has been about half accomplished so far.
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An April, 2013, update of the map is available at this link.
More information can be found here.
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The map does not transmit the hard work by parents, teachers, and students to education, but the good qualities support this overview.
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This blog and the map described above use Brooklyn zip codes to designate neighborhoods and clusters.  The offering of Catholic education has thinned out so much that not only are there about fourteen zip codes without any Catholic elementary school, but several adjoining neighborhoods have no Catholic school.  The threesome across Brooklyn, Borough Park, Kensington, and Midwood appears now more Jewish than it was  thirty years ago.  The shoreline neighborhoods of Bush Terminal, Red Hook, and Brooklyn Heights had schools, but no longer do, perhaps as dockworkers lost employment. The zip codes called Crown Heights, Stuyvesant, St.John's Place, Brevoort, and Brownsville have no Catholic schools.

St. Blaise, Kingston Avenue

Because today, February 3, is the feast of St. Blaise, a bishop-martyr in Armenia, I looked around for a photo of the church of St. Blaise that was merged into that of St. Francis of Assisi in 1980.  The parish of St. Blaise was established in 1908 as an Italian national parish.  The photo at this link shows the breaking of ground for a new building in 1954.
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The Brooklyn Library Digital Collection offers many photographs, but the links seem to "time out."  You then have to reenter the search word, in this case the word blaise.
The church was at 520 Kingston Avenue between Maple and Woodward Midwood Streets. I wonder whether the Horeb Seventh Day Adventist church seen there on Google Street View is the 1954 church of St. Blaise.
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Yes. Today, 10.21.2018, Deacon John Lynch confirmed that the 1954 church of St. Blaise is the Horeb SDA.

St. Fortunata, East New York

St. Fortunata church stands on Crescent Street at the intersection with Linden Boulevard.  Its postal address is 2609 Linden Boulevard, Brooklyn NY 11208, telephone 718-647-2632.  The large school buildings take up much of the block to the east, but they now house a charter school.  St. Fortunata parish was established in 1934, and the school closed in 2008.  On January 31, 2013, the pastor here also became administrator of St. Sylvester parish, a mile north.
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The parish website is linked HERE.

The Tablet: Catholic Schools Week

The diocesan Tablet has published a supplement for Catholic Schools Week, linked here.  It provides descriptions of ten elementary schools and one high school in the borough of Brooklyn. These include:
Holy Angels, Bay Ridge.
St. Anselm, Bay Ridge.
St. Bernadette, Dyker Heights.
St. Ephrem, Dyker Heights.
St. Francis Xavier, Park Slope.
Salve Regina, East New York.
St. Francis of Assisi, Nostrand Avenue, Flatbush.
St. Mark, Sheepshead Bay.
Queen of the Rosary, Williamsburg.
St. Bernard, Mill Basin.
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A more complete list of Catholic elementary schools in Brooklyn may be found here.

Our Lady of Good Counsel, Putnam Ave.

The parish of Our Lady of Good Counsel is located at 915 Putnam Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11221, telephone 718-455-6864 The bishop has merged this parish with that of St. John the Baptist, a mile away on Lewis Avenue, and one pastor serves both churches. 

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The website of the combined parishes is linked here.  St. John the Baptist's phone number is 718-455-6864.

Along the north side of Putnam Avenue is the church, a garden (with a statue of Mary and an Ankh) and the parish office.  Behind the garden can be seen a parish building that faces Madison Street.

The above photos show the north side of Putnam Avenue.

The photos below show the south side of Madison Street, that is, behind the church.

At 800 Madison Street, a new corridor connects what appears to be two former elementary schools of the parish.  The building to the left (east) shows the date 1893.  I could not find a construction date on the building to the right. Presumably a convent was someplace here. Present use of the building is for some 70 apartments of "single room occupancy" with permanent tenants, possibly under the management of a division of Catholic Charities.

Any photo may be enlarged by clicking on it.

The property of this parish lies mid-block between Ralph Avenue and Patchen Avenue, named after Ralph Patchen, a farmer who owned 150 acres closer to the waterfront in the early 1800's.

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