The Browning School, a private all-boys college-prep school in New York City, has completed construction of a high school campus at a site that had been a parking garage.
OurTownNY.com reports that the high school space on East 64th Street in Manhattan is a 60,000-square-foot building, just a few blocks away from its longtime campus on 62nd Street.
The new campus has a regulation-size gymnasium, enabling Browning to host home games for the first time, the school says.
The high school space also has five general classrooms that can hold up to 18 students each, as well as two seminar rooms, a library, multiple science labs, a music room. and three expandable “scale-up” classrooms.
John Botti, the head of school, called the new building “not just a physical expansion of Browning, but a renewed commitment to our mission, our boys."
School officials decided to expand the school as enrollment at Browning increased and its main East 62nd Street campus became more crowded. This year's enrollment is 436 students, and Browning expects to gain another 30 students when the new school opens later this year.
The Browning School was founded in 1888 by John A. Browning, in order to educate members of the Rockefeller family.
