Feature Stories
Some wore ear-to-ear smiles, hugging friends and teachers and sharing stories of summer adventures. freedom from homework and brown-bag lunches. Some laughed, others cried. Some were waiting as the doors swung open and others barely cleared the threshold before the late bell. But from PS 3 in Pleasant Plains on the South Shore of Staten Island to PS 81 in Riverdale, the Bronx, the largest school system in the country opened its classrooms to more than 1.1 million students at 1,800 schools on Sept. 8.
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Actor Rico Rodriguez (from the television show “Modern Family”) distributes books to students at a First Book event at PS 30, a UFT Community Learning School in East Harlem.
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Chapter Leader Helene Loomis (back row, left) and teacher Arlene Sarjeant welcome students at PS 274 in Bushwick, Brooklyn, on the opening day of school.
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Stephen and Laurie McCarthy arrive at PS 8 in Brooklyn Heights with their 1st-grader.
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A teacher at PS 115 in Canarsie, Broooklyn, welcomes two returning students on opening day.
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Mia and Lucas are ready for their first day at PS 32 in Great Kills, Staten Island.
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A father and son head off to school at PS 303 in Forest Hills, Queens.
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A brother and sister are prepped to soar at PS/MS 37 in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx.
