Save the date....Sunday, March 4th 10:30 am to 3 pm Community Day 2012. 

Welcome back everyone. It’s the Year of the Dragon.

Affordable family entertainment to combat those winter blues!

The Neighborhood School’s beloved Holiday Fair is back! On Sunday, December 11, 2011, from 11am to 5pm, come on out to support a public school and have a blast. There’ll be carnival games, arts & crafts, face-painting, print-making, henna and temporary tattooing, a huge kid-built maze (made of deconstructed cardboard boxes -- the urban equivalent of a corn maze), a raffle, our famous silent auction, and great food from your favorite neighborhood vendors.

Auction items up for bids this year include classes in trapeze, parkour and trampoline at STREB; gift certificates to fabulous East Village and Lower East Side shops like Exit 9, The Bean, Alphabet City Acupuncture, Sugar Sweet Sunshine, East Yoga, Saxelby Cheesemongers, Grace Heaven Organic Salon and il laboratorio del gelato; fabulous Trina Turk jewelry; memberships for MOMA and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and many, many more. New items are being added every day. You can bid online until Friday, December 9th at 5pm; there will be a live auction at the school on Sunday at 2:30pm.

Admission is free and open to the public. Wondering what a progressive public school in the East Village is like? Come check us out! It’s a great (and cheap) way to have fun indoors with your kids on a cold winter’s day; you can shop and nosh while your kids run around and have fun with their friends. Proceeds from the fair support the Neighborhood School PTA, a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization, which pays for the school’s music and art education (perhaps you saw our students on Bravo TV’s Work of Art?), field trips, classroom supplies and teacher support. As you probably know, the Department of Education is a tad cash-strapped these days, and public schools rely on fundraising for some pretty basic educational needs. The Neighborhood School is at 121 East 3rd Street, between First Avenue and Avenue A in Manhattan’s fabulous East Village. Thank you for supporting us and public education!

We’re able to offer online selection of picture day photos this year! Check your email for the details.

The Neighborhood School continues to host the best Halloween gathering and parade in the East Village!  Check out the sampling of costumes posted in the gallery on the website - including some past and future alumni!