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The Angel Guardian Home for Little Children was founded in 1899 [1] by the Sisters of Mercy [2] as a sister facility to the order's other New York orphanage, St. Mary's of the Angels Home, which had opened five years earlier in Syosset, New York. [3] The Angel Guardian Home, on 12th Avenue and 64th Street in Brooklyn, had been taking in orphans ...
This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn.The diocese covers the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. [1] [2] Churches in the rest of New York City (Manhattan, Staten Island and the Bronx) are part of the Archdiocese of New York.; see the List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.
The land Marcy is on was bought in 1945 by the City of New York; it had been the site of an old Dutch windmill. [2] [4] Homes and businesses (including two banks) were cleared for the construction of Marcy, as well as sections of Hopkins, Ellery, Floyd (now Martin Luther King Jr. Place), and Stockton streets that went through where the complex now sits. [4]
Catherine McAuley High School was a small, all-girls', private, Catholic high school in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York City, New York. Founded by the Brooklyn Sisters of Mercy in 1942, it is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. [1] It remains the only all-girls' Catholic high school in Brooklyn or Queens to have ...
The Holy Cross School served the Hells Kitchen/Times Square area; circa 2011, it had about 300 students; [23] some students originated from areas outside of New York City and outside New York State; in 2013, the archdiocese announced that the school was to close; [2] the school had the possibility of remaining open if $720,000 in pledges to the ...
The diocese was established in 1853 out of the territory of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, at a time when Brooklyn was still a separate city from New York City. It originally included all of Long Island , but its present-day territory was established in 1957 when Nassau and Suffolk counties were split off to form the Diocese of ...
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Mercy Home began accepting girls in 1987. Three years later, it was renamed Mercy Home for Boys and Girls. Mercy Home is composed of two separate campuses where abused and neglected children are cared for—the Boys' Campus, located in Chicago's West Loop area, and the Girls' Campus, located south, in Chicago's Morgan Park community.