Good morning. It’s Wednesday. We’ll find out about a new building for an unusual charter school in the Bronx. We’ll also get details on the resignation of the schools chancellorspingold, David Banks.
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Angel Cruz will finally get to meet the Knicks legend Earl Monroe today.
Angel enrolled in 2021 at a charter high school in the Bronx that carries Monroe’s name. The school takes an unusual approach, pointing students to career paths in what its executive director calls “the ecosystem of basketball” — but not necessarily on the court.
Angel, 17, said his mother had convinced him that the school was an opportunity. “She did all the research for me,” he told me when I asked if he had chosen the school, the Earl Monroe New Renaissance Basketball School, because he was a basketball fan. Angel said he had seen Monroe “from a distance” around the school from time to time, though he couldn’t have seen him play: Monroe, who was known as Earl the Pearl, retired from the Knicks 27 years before he was born.
Now, after four years in subleased quarters in the Pelham Bay section of the Bronx, the school is beginning construction on a building of its own. It will hold a groundbreaking ceremony this morning for the $35 million building on Elton Avenue in the South Bronx. Monroe is expected to be on hand for the ceremony, and Angel, a senior, will get to say hello.
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