Posted Sep 9, 2011, 2:05 AM
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http://www.dnainfo.com/20110908/down...first-students
Downtown's Brand-New Spruce Street School Welcomes First Students
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver posed with a dapper Spruce Street School student Sept. 8, 2011.
September 8, 2011
By Julie Shapiro
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Nervous and excited, clutching parents' hands and racing ahead to greet their friends, students at Downtown's Spruce Street School crossed the threshold of their brand-new building for the first time Thursday morning.
Inside the new 630-seat school, which was designed by Frank Gehry and sits in the base of his New York by Gehry apartment tower, flashbulbs popped and a crowd of grinning politicians, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, offered handshakes and high-fives.
Nicolas Heron, 39, a TriBeCa resident, said his twins, Sam and Mia, who started kindergarten Thursday, have been excitedly watching the rise of the Gehry's rippling apartment tower above their new school. "They can see it from everywhere," Heron said. "They say, 'This is our school! This is where we're going!'"
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg offered high-fives to students entering the Spruce Street School Sept. 8, 2011.
The 5,00-square-foot rooftop play space.
Spruce's new 300-seat auditorium.
The hallways curve just like the facade of Frank Gehry's tower above.
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