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SAINT SAVIOUR HIGH SCHOOL: A Day in the Life
As you enter 588 6th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn, our assistant principal greets you. At your locker, you chat with
friends while organizing for morning classes. If it is your birthday, your locker will be decorated in your favorite
colors. Before homeroom, some students will be working in our Greenhouse classroom on her science research
project. Down in the Art Room students are busily working on projects class- and club-related. On the third floor,
the Gospel Choir or instrumental ensemble might be practicing for a liturgy or concert. In guidance, seniors are
sharing college acceptances and scholarship awards. All this activity and the day hasn’t even officially begun.
And what a day it will be, with English classes where you explore the nuances of poetry; with math and science
classes that teach you about the universe as manifest in the laws of physics; with history classes that will open a
door to the past as a way to understanding the present; religion classes discovering Faith in the Media or with
foreign language classes where you discover your love of language. In between, there will, of course, be breaks: for
lunch, where you can share stories and jokes over a plate of Marco’s delicious cheese fries; for P.E., where you can
practice yoga to relax the mind and body as you prepare for midterms; for study halls, where you can return to the
greenhouse room or library to complete an article for the newspaper or research Australia and Hawaii, our next
international destinations.
2:36 pm: “Have a good afternoon, you are now dismissed . . .”, but the day is not done, as a myriad of extracurricular
activities awaits including play practice, community service projects, extra help sessions, team practices and
playoff games.
But don’t take my word for it: find out for yourself. Join us for a Buddy Day or a tour!
Saint Saviour High School
Park Slope, Brooklyn
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School, Genesis @ Xaverian, Good Shepherd, Holy Angels, Holy
Name of Mary, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mary Queen of Heaven,
Midwood Catholic Academy, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of
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Our Lady of Trust, Queen of All Saints, St. Agatha, St. Anselm, St.
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Liseux, St. Edmund, St. Ephrem School, St. Francis de Sales, St.
Francis of Assisi,St. Francis Xavier, St. Joseph the Worker, St.
Margaret, St. Mark, St. McCartan/Maghene College (Ireland), St.
Patrick, St. Peter, St. Rose of Lima, St. Saviour Catholic Academy,
Transfiguration School and Bishop Kearney HS.
Park Slope blaze kills two
By Ben Verde
Brooklyn Paper
A deadly inferno engulfed
a Park Slope apartment
building on Wednesday
morning, claiming the
life of a firefighter-in-training
and his girlfriend, and
shuttering a recently-opened
jazz club on the building’s
ground floor.
Authorities rushed to the
scene on Fifth Avenue between
Lincoln and St. Johns
places at around 2:07 am,
where New York’s Bravest
spent nearly an hour battling
the blaze that broke out on the
building’s fourth floor.
Andy Munoz — who had
been training to join the Fire
Department — was asleep
with his girlfriend Destiny
Marmoles when the fire broke
out inside their apartment located
at the front of the building.
Firefighters, who had entered
the building through a
rear fire escape, found the
couple already unconscious
after fighting through the
blaze, according to authorities.
Paramedics rushed the victims
to Methodist Hospital,
where doctors pronounced
Munoz dead. Marmoles was
pronounced dead later in the
afternoon.
A relative — who asked
to be identified only as John
— claimed that Munoz was
an immigrant from the Dominican
Republic, who had
just started training to join
the Fire Department.
“He could have done
anything with his life,” said
John.
The ground floor of the
brownstone is home to the
Made in New York Jazz
BQX...
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The project has been subject
to frequent criticism because
large parts of the proposed
route are already
covered by the G train and
the B62 bus — although the
subway juts inland through
Bedford-Stuyvesant and Clinton
Hill, and the bus doesn’t
extend beyond Downtown to
the south and not as far north
into Queens. The trolly would,
however, provide a crucial
link to long-suffering Red
Hook straphangers.
Transit reps repeatedly emphasized
that they will study
alternatives, such as expanding
the city’s Select Bus Service
along the trolley route,
which they’re required to analyze
to be eligible for the federal
grant.
Preliminary figures by
EDC already said last may
that a bus would be far cheaper
and carry the same number
of people.
“We found with an applesto
apples comparison that you
only see a capital costs saving
of 30 percent by doing bus
rapid transit versus light rail
or streetcar,” said the agency’s
executive vice president Seth
Myers, casually downplaying
an estimated $800 million in
taxpayer savings at the May
Council hearing.
Although the tram would
snake its way through some of
the wealthiest neighborhoods
in both boroughs, city reps
emphasized connecting New
York City Housing Authority
residents as a sweetener, but
Smoke eaters surveyed
the damage the morning
after the blaze. (Left)
Betty the Boston Terrier
may have saved her
owners life.
one community board member
pushed back, saying the trolley
would just create another
mode of transport for mostly
wealthy, white New Yorkers,
as has been the case with the
mayor’s other major transportation
project, the heavily-taxpayer
subsidized ferry system,
the Post reported.
“We’ve had studies already
about the ferry system and
they say mostly white people
take the ferry, and black don’t,”
said Ester Blount. “This is not
going to serve people in NYCHA
developments.”
PIPE...
interstate pipelines.
“The blast zone question
does not apply because the
pipe is designed differently
to operate in an urban environment
as opposed to operating
as an interstate pipeline
at a much higher pressure
going through a rural area,”
said Nat Grid engineer Peter
Metzdorff. “This is not an interstate
pipeline.”
The company sources its
gas from four interstate pipelines
— two from Texas, one
from Tennessee, and another
from Canada — and the gas
pressure reduces from about
a thousand pounds to only 15
pounds within tubes running
beneath the borough’s
streets.
With those safety measures
in place, the pressure
in sub-city tubes is about half
the pressure of a car tire, according
to spokesman Keith
Rooney.
“This project is all about
safety and reliability,” Rooney
said. “It has nothing to do with
pipelines.”
But advocates said that gas
gurus should not only consider
immediate dangers, but also
the larger issues — like climate
change.
“This neighborhood does
not want to be held hostage
by a public utility company
that is supposed to be working
for us,” LaCherra said.
“We don’t want this pipeline,
we want National Grid to invest
in renewable energy now.
Climate emergency is coming
and we don’t have any time
to waste.”
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Club, which opened just
three months ago — and the
owner says the building is so
damaged by the blaze that he
has no idea if he’ll be able
to reopen.
“It all smells like barbecue,”
said Boris Bangiyev.
A next-door neighbor told
reporters that his six-year-old
Boston terrier woke him as his
room filled up with smoke,
and said he was thankful the
fire didn’t spread throughout
the building.
“Their door being closed
probably saved all of our
lives,” said the neighbor, who
identified himself as Joe.
The two deaths mark the
sixth fire-related fatalities in
New York City since Monday,
according to authorities.
Throughout all of 2019, the
city saw 66 civilian fire deaths
— marking a 25-percent decline
since 2018, according
to Fire Commissioner Daniel
A. Nigro.
Photos by Todd Maisel
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