“Brooklyn Queens Day”

Today is Brooklyn Queens Day. All public schools are closed today. In 1905, the State Legislature passed a law making the first Thursday in June an annual holiday for the public schools of Brooklyn. This was to celebrate ‘The founding of the Sunday school movement in Brooklyn’. 1905 is the first date given for this holiday now Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott said it started in the 1800s.

In 1959 this school holiday was extended to Queens. A few years ago it has been extended to all NY schools…