I ran into a friend on Seventh Avenue who was walking with his little four-year-old boy. The child is a student at the Park Slope Childcare Collective, a school located in the Seventh Avenue church that recently had a fire.

Somehow I didn’t put two and two together.

Seems that the school had to relocate because the church is being renovated. Luckily, quite a few local institutions, including Old First Reformed and PS 321 have made space for the PSCC kids and teachers.

What a drag for parents of kids to have this kind of disruption during a school year. Pre-school is a hard enough transition for little two, three, and four-year-olds.

The renovation at the church will take six months. The school is currently looking for a temporary space to use until their space is fixed up.

Nice to see that the community reached out to help the collective, a day care that’s been around as long and probably longer than I’ve been in Park Slope.

The child pictured has nothing to do with the PSCC. She was photographed by Hugh Crawford.