It looks like the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School, located at 185 Court Street, has started construction on it's new expansion wing. Back in 2009 the school purchased an old fire patrol station at 12 Dean Street that had closed down years prior for $1.9 million, according to the cobblehillblog.com The inside looks pretty bare bones right now but a crew was hard at work when we passed by it last week (see pictures above and below). The expansion is said to allow the school 40 to 50 new students and the hopeful estimated opening was to be this year. We'll see though. It seems that there's a lot to be done still. Below is a little history about the firehouse that was printed in the Eagle a couple years back.
“The Brooklyn firehouse was, in fact, one of three remaining fire fighting operations of what was once a large network belonging to the New York Board of Fire Underwriters. Fire Patrol members acted as an auxiliary force in the city for over 200 years…Despite its union’s claim that it saved $80 million worth of assets annually, the consortium of insurance companies that paid for its operation, decided it was too costly to maintain and voted to disband the last three units of the Fire Patrol in 2006."
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