Earl Monroe New Renaissance School cuts ribbon on new home in the South Bronx

Basketball Hall of Famers, the commissioner of the NBA, and New York City Hoops royalty all in one room to cut the ribbon on a brand new building. For the Earl Monroe New Renaissance School, this was always the vision. Welcome home, guys. This is it. And it's been a long time coming. The tuition-free charter high school provides pearls of wisdom from a curriculum based around basketball and exploring careers related to the game. You have that opportunity to be inspired. Broadcasters, as lawyers, as commissioners even. It first opened in 2021 at an old church in Pelham Bay, but the board was already working on a more permanent home. This brand new five-story, 69,000 square foot building in the South Bronx. I didn't expect it to be this nice. It's so modern and it feels refreshing. It's just more bright. It looks better. It looks like Earl Monroe. Even before the new building, students were stacking achievements like Earl Monroe. Every member of its first two graduating classes was accepted to college. Hopefully this is the start of something big, and these kids are the beginning of it. Now armed with a resource that even former NBA players from the city, like Coney Island's Stephon Marbury, or Rod Strickland, who grew up about a mile away in the Mitchell houses, never had. It's a great opportunity for the area. You know, the youth need it. They need inspiration. The school's founder, Dan Flores, who's from Brooklyn, predicting it'll lead to more schools, more development and more resources for the area. In the South Bronx, Greg Thompson, News 12.