The Five Boroughs Music Festival presents an intimate afternoon of vocal and piano music featuring the wife-and-husband team of soprano Jennifer Zetlan and pianist David Shimoni and the husband-and-wife team of baritone Tyler Duncan and pianist Erika Switzer.
Sunday, February 14, 4:00PM
General Admission $25 / Students & Brooklyn Residents $15
Advance purchase discounts at www.5BMF.org
South Oxford Space
138 S. Oxford Street in Ft. Greene
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Here is a letter from Assemblywoman Joan Millman, State Senator Daniel Squadron and City Councilmembers Brad Lander and Steve Levin that went out to Helene Banks, chair of the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School, urging the board to reconsider their plan to close the Little Room, a nursery program for children with language delays.
In the note, they suggest transferring the Little Room to the YAI network of programs. I’m not sure what those initials stand for but it’s an organization that helps people of all ages with disabilities and their families. Their organization includes more than 450 programs and services and serves more than 20,000 people every day.
January 27, 2010
Ms. Helene Banks
Chair, Board of Directors
Brooklyn Heights Montessori School
185 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201Dear Ms. Banks:
When the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School decided in December 2008 to end its long and mutually beneficial relationship with the highly acclaimed Little Room Program, the Board established a deadline that ultimately proved to be an insufficient amount of time to find a suitable location for the program.
BHMS originally discussed the possibility of transferring the Little Room to YAI’s network of programs last spring. However, it was not until late October that YAI was seriously considered as a possible organization to operate the Little Room. This left YAI only a matter of weeks to locate a space, negotiate a lease and begin a build-out for a September, 2010 opening. YAI Chief Operating Officer Steve Freeman and his team worked tirelessly to accomplish these goals as quickly as possible, but unfortunately the only feasible location proved to be problematic. Specifically, the landlord of this space declined to include a clause within the lease allowing YAI to opt out should they not receive necessary government approvals for the opening of the Little Room. Without this clause, YAI was forced to request that the New York State Education Department (NYSED) depart from its standard protocol and provide a pre-approval of YAI’s Little Room application. Our offices worked hard to obtain this pre-approval, but ultimately NYSED rejected the request.