{"id":374562,"date":"2026-10-16T05:44:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374562\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T05:44:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:44:52","slug":"news-12-bronx-earl-monroe-new-renaissance-school-cuts-ribbon-on-new-home-in-the-south-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374562\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Earl Monroe New Renaissance School Cuts Ribbon On New Home In The South Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Basketball Hall of Fame members, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, and New York City basketball royalty like Coney Island’s Stephon Marbury and Bronx-native Rod Strickland all in one room, the Earl Monroe New Renaissance School officially cut the ribbon on its brand new building in the South Bronx.<\/p>\n

“Welcome home, guys,” the school’s namesake, a member of the Hall of Fame and member of the 1973 NBA Champion New York Knicks, announced to the crowd. “This is it. It’s been a long time coming.”<\/p>\n

The tuition-free charter high school uses a curriculum based around the game of basketball, and encourages students to explore careers related to the game – both on and off the court.<\/p>\n

“You have that opportunity to be inspired,” Silver said to the students. “As broadcasters, as lawyers, as commissioners, even.”<\/p>\n

The school first opened in 2021 <\/a>at an old church in Pelham Bay, but even then, the board told News 12 it was working on a permanent home.<\/p>\n

That vision became reality this fall, with the opening of the brand-new, five-story, 69,000-square-foot building.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t expect it to be this nice,” said Mileily Vasquez, a senior at the school. “It’s so modern, and it feels refreshing.”<\/p>\n

“It’s just more bright,” agreed sophomore Charles Johnson. “It looks better…it looks like Earl Monroe.”<\/p>\n

Even before the new building opened, students started stacking achievements like Earl Monroe. Every member of its first two graduating classes was accepted to college.<\/p>\n

“Hopefully this is the start of something big, and these kids are the beginning of it,” Monroe said.<\/p>\n

Strickland, who grew up about a mile away from the building in the Mitchel Houses, said he was amazed by resources he could have only dreamed of as a kid.<\/p>\n

“It’s a great opportunity for the area,” he said. “The youth need it. They need inspiration.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Basketball Hall of Fame members, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, and New York City basketball royalty like Coney…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-374562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}