Talk:De la salle academy

"La Salle Academy" and "De La Salle Academy" are two different private schools, both located in Manhattan, NYC. Currently (1/31/2012) De la salle academy is re-directed to La Salle Academy.

La Salle Academy (http://www.lasalleacademy.org/) is at 215 East 6th Street, New York, NY 10003. It is an all-boys high school, (according to http://www.lasalleacademy.org/about/a-brief-history/) first established in 1848, when four De La Salle Christian Brothers arrived in New York from France and established Saint Vincent’s School on Canal Street. St. Vincent’s relocated to Second Street in 1856, and in 1887 changed its name to La Salle Academy. In 1936, the Academy erected the large five-story school building that stands today. For more than 160 years in New York City, the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle) have been caring for the spiritual and temporal educational needs of young men from poor and troubled families —a charge issued to them by St. John Baptist De La Salle, the founder of the order, in the late seventeenth century. Today, the Brothers of the Christian Schools have taken this mission of Lasallian Catholic education from its humble beginnings in France to every corner of the globe.

De La Salle Academy (http://www.delasalleacademy.com/) is at 202 West 97th Street, New York, NY 10025. It was founded in 1984 by Brother Brian Carty, FSC, De La Salle Academy is a private, independent, BOYS & GIRLS middle school. According to a New York Times article (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/nyregion/25brother.html), ...De La Salle, a middle school on West 97th Street, is nonsectarian, but there is a faith component, including prayers at the beginning of the day and the start of each class. “I ask the parents to raise them in their faith and to practice it,” Brother Carty said. And though he holds an administrative role, he clearly views his position pastorally.