Coronavirus Cases Close John Jay Seventh Avenue Campus: DOE

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — John Jay Educational Campus was temporarily shut down on Friday after multiple cases of coronavirus were reported at its Seventh Avenue schools, according to the Department of Education.

The 237 Seventh Ave. campus, which houses four separate schools, was one of four across the five boroughs that was closed for a 24-hour period on Friday due to active coronavirus cases, according to the DOE map.

The closure comes after at least two cases connected to the campus were reported on Thursday.

One of the reports closed a classroom at Millennium Brooklyn High School and the other was connected to Park Slope Collegiate School, though no intervention was needed, likely because the school community hadn't been exposed, the map shows.

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.

This is at least the second time coronavirus cases have been linked to the John Jay campus since schools reopened. A classroom was also shut down earlier this month at the school of law.

As of Friday, classrooms in Park Slope were also shut down at the Park Slope Armory YMCA, which runs a youth program, P.S. 107 on Eighth Avenue and P.S. 295 on 18th Street, according to the map.

Twenty-three schools across the five boroughs were completely closed on Friday, four for 24 hours and 19 for a 14-day period.

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.

This article originally appeared on the Park Slope Patch