Brooklyn, NY - New Jewish School Building Ordered to Shut Down for Numerous Violations

Brooklyn, NY - Staff and volunteers at the new Satmar School for boys on Harrison Place in Brooklyn, NY worked feverishly over the past three months to prepare the building for the arrival of more than 600 students in grades 5 through 12.

But two week later, the Department of Buildings (DOB) ordered the building to be closed down due to numerous building safety and zoning violations.
"The School is working to fix the violations, we should be ready to go within a few days" Rabbi Leib Glantz said, we are just waiting for the inspectors to file their reports with the Building Commisioner, he said.

In the meantime, school is continuing, but children have been moved to temporary buildings, some of them will be placed at other local school buildings and some of them at a local wedding hall called Rose Castle, Glantz said.