Bay Ridge’s Adelphi Academy was founded in 1863 by two teachers from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, Aaron Chadwick and Dr. Edward S. Bunker, and opened on Fort Greene’s Adelphi Street, a name that comes from the Greek term for “brotherhood” (cf. “Philadelphia,” or “brotherly love”). Brooklyn’s Adelphi Street in turn had been named for London’s Adelphi […]
from Forgotten New York http://forgotten-ny.com/2016/11/adelphi-academy-bay-ridge/
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