Private schools hit the market

Expanding, and shrinking, in an expensive and crowded city

2. Amount that the Convent of the
Sacred Heart school at 1 East 91st Street paid Verizon New York for a three-story building on a 12,500square-foot lot at 406 East 91st Street in October 2008, about $280 per buildable square foot:

B Y T H E NU MB E R S

1. Amount that the Brearley

School a private girls school for grades K-12, located at 610 East 83rd Street paid for three buildings at 70-74 East End Avenue on the corner of 83rd Street, in June:

3. Amount that the

Dalton School paid in May 2009 for a townhouse at 51 East 91st Street, to connect to its K-3 location next door at 53 East 91st Street:

4. Asking price for an 85,000-squarefoot property at 1277 Locust Avenue and 14th Street in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, built in 1911 and currently home to the Shulamith School for Girls, a private Jewish school for students in grades K-12:

$26.4 million
5. Size of space the Browning
School for Boys at 52 East 62nd Street is looking to acquire on the Upper East Side:

$23 million
6. Number of students

$6.35 million
7. Size of Claremont Preparatory
Academys expansion this fall, after signing a 20-year lease at 25 Broadway for space on the rst oor, 19th through 22nd oors and the basement, plus 10,000 square feet of outdoor space:

$40 million

enrolled at the Browning School for Boys:

100,000 sq. ft.

9. Amount paid in 2006 by the Abraham Joshua Heschel School, a Jewish private school, for property at 246 West 61st Street, with plans led last October to build a new nine-story building there for grades K-8:

about 380
10. Planned size of the Heschel
Schools building on 61st Street, slated for completion in 2012 adjacent to its new high school at 20 West End Avenue, which was completed in 2002:

200,000 sq. ft.

11. Number of students enrolled at Heschel, in grades nursery through 12:

8. Total cost of Claremonts expansion plan including a four-lane, 25-meter pool, gym, tness center, 400-seat auditorium and art studios with views of New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty:

$40 million
12. Length of time that Heschels two buildings a 54,788-square-foot building at 270 West 89th Street and a 23,530-square-foot building at 314 West 91st Street have been on the market, with no formal asking prices, as of late September:

$18 million
13. Size of additions the Berkeley
Carroll School in Park Slope is making as part of a redesign of its existing one-story, 3,000-square-foot structure at 181 Lincoln Place, including a rooftop recreation space:

more than 120,000 sq. ft.

over 800
15. Number of parochial
elementary schools in New York, out of a total of 216, that New York Diocese Archbishop Timothy Dolan proposes to close or consolidate:

125 days
16. Number of students lost by
the Diocese of Brooklyn, which includes Brooklyn and Queens, through the closure of more than 50 schools in the last 12 years, nearly half of its elementary school system:

14. Cost of tuition at the recently shuttered St. Michael Academy an all-girls Roman Catholic high school established in 1874 by Catholic nuns on West 33rd Street between Ninth and 10th avenues, which at one point had 900 students:

almost 10,000 sq. ft.

$600 a month

30

20,000

Compiled by Yaf Spodek. Sources: 1) TRD, Acris; 2) TRD; 3) Dalton, Acris; 4) CoStar; 5) New York Observer; 6) Browning; 7), 8) DNAinfo; 9), 10) New York Observer; 11) Abraham Joshua Heschel School; 12) CoStar; 13) Brownstoner; 14), 15), 16) New York Times

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