On Saturday, September 6, La Salle Academy, one of the oldest Catholic schools in New York City, hosted over 200 students, faculty, alumni, and guests to celebrate the ceremonial return of the school to its historic 2nd Street and 2nd Avenue campus. With an ongoing surge in enrollment and the incoming freshman class doubling for this fall, the De La Salle Christian Brothers and La Salle alumni invested heavily to modernize the campus that La Salle occupied from 1856 to 2010.
Festivities included a performance by the FDNY Emerald Society Pipes and Drums, a blessing of the building, and a Mass presided over by Archdiocese of New York Auxiliary Bishop Edmund J. Whalen, vicar for clergy. Speakers included Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso (class of 2001), Nicole Freeman, Principal of La Salle Academy, and Brother Robert Schaefer, head of the De La Salle Christian Brothers for Eastern North America.