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Italian Wine Tasting Hosted by Brooklyn Friends and Families

 Thank you for your interest. To allow for successful delivery, we are no longer accepting orders for the wine tasting. Love Italy? Love Italian food? Break out in a cold sweat whenever you are confronted with an all-Itailan wine list and find yourself asking for the house red? With over 400 appellations and more than […]

Giving Day 2020 Gratitude

  BFS Community, because of you, BFS Giving Day 2020 raised over $300,000 for our school! Thank you to all who made BFS their philanthropic priority during the holiday season. If you haven’t yet given to BFS, you can still do so today at BrooklynFriends.org/Donate.

Remembering Benjamin R. Burdsall, 1903-1968

Got to thinking about Benjamin R. Burdsall this week as our Upper School faculty has been doing its own thinking about recipients of our annual awards for the Upper School closing ceremony on June 9. Today seems a good day to remember who Mr. Burdsall was for so many at BFS and why BFS gives […]

Facing Truth in BFS History

1928-1936 BFS Lower School Scrapbook,news clipping of the first May Day, 1928“Emulating the May Day Celebration of the Early Settlers…” Sometimes history reveals a past that is not always what we want it to be, even at BFS. A few months back, I wrote about our school’s path to enrolling students of color, particularly to […]