We hope your summer is off to a wonderful start.
On our end, we’re pleased to share some exciting news: this week, we received the all-important Certificate of Occupancy from the City of New York. While this milestone was expected following the different inspections we successfully underwent over the past few weeks and months, it remains a significant achievement and a moment of collective joy (with a measure of relief!) for everyone involved.
As of Tuesday, we are now officially authorized to operate as a school in our new building!
Today, we will hold a final walkthrough with our contractors to review the punch list. As expected, the list remains substantial but is shrinking steadily each day.
The only two larger items remaining are:
- The main entrance door, expected to arrive by the end of the month.
- The gym wall padding, scheduled for installation later in August.
We’re also finalizing a few aesthetic touches, such as sealing the floor finish.
We’ve now been completely out of the old building for nearly two weeks and have started working on furniture placement and installing TVs, projectors, and whiteboards in the classrooms throughout the new space.
All in all, we are further ahead than we had even hoped to be at this point. We are looking forward to a fantastic back-to-school in September. You’ll hear from Andria on Monday with details of everything you need to prepare for that!
With this great news, we’re concluding this final update in the series by wishing you a wonderful summer break!
You can find the previous newsletters here:
New Building Announcement: June 21, 2024
Building Update #1: October 8, 2024
Building Update #2: October 31, 2024
Building Update #3: November 19, 2024
Building Update #4: December 12, 2024
Building Update #5: January 30, 2025
Building Update #6: March, 13, 2025
Building Update #7: May, 8, 2025
Building Update #8: May, 22, 2025
Building Update #9: June 12, 2025