Coronavirus Cases Close Bed-Stuy School Building: DOE

BED-STUY, BROOKLYN — A Bed-Stuy school has closed for in-person learning for two weeks after multiple coronavirus cases were detected in the building, according to the Department of Education.

P.S. 308 on Quincy Street was shut down Monday and will be closed until Nov. 8 after at least three coronavirus cases were reported over the weekend at EMBER Charter School, which shares the building, according to the Department of Education and their map of active COVID-19 cases.

The school is one of four public schools in Brooklyn and 18 across New York City that is currently closed due to coronavirus cases, the map shows.

At EMBER, three classrooms were closed — one on Friday and two Saturday — before the entire school building was ultimately shut down Monday.

Per DOE policy, a school building is closed when there are at least two cases from different classrooms, from an activity or exposure outside of school or when the link between them cannot be determined, according to the DOE.

In each case, the building is temporarily closed while the DOE starts an investigation into the cases. In the scenario when a link between the cases cannot be determined, the school is closed for 14 days, according to the guidelines.

The three Brooklyn buildings are the latest to be closed in the borough because of coronavirus cases since schools started to reopen in September.

Those are in addition to schools in South Brooklyn's "red zone" that have been closed since Oct. 8, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced localized lockdowns given coronavirus surges.

There have been at least 600 coronavirus cases in New York City's public schools since the return of students to in-person classes.

Check the full map of active cases here.