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Post by hcpride on Feb 1, 2024 11:03:37 GMT -5
Completely anecdotal but I’ve noticed a large number of Regis Non-NYC kids doing the long commute (90 mins + each way) over the last 20 years or so while I have the vague notion that thirty years ago this was rarer. (I know the NYC commute can be long too as I have a friend who did the Staten Island multi-modality slog each day to Regis. Including the ferry.) The families I know on LI who send their kids there are fairly well off and very involved (which is why I’ve noted the robust fund raising on my last few posts). For a day school it draws from a very large geographical footprint (thanks to the metropolitan transportation infrastructure).
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 1, 2024 12:53:21 GMT -5
I was a lower Westchester attendee 2000-2004. There was always a good 10-12 kids on the express bus from White Plains through Yonkers headed downtown towards Regis, Loyola, and a few for Marymount. Farthest Regis students in my day came from Stamford, Katonah... plenty from Staten Island, Brooklyn, and even a few from Jersey.
Although, I did have two classmates in my homeroom in Freshman and Sophomore years that laughed when they heard I woke up at 6am to get to school on time. One, who lived on 85th Street, still managed to race the homeroom bell all disheveled, and had a car drive him the two blocks each day. His dad was an "entrepeneur" much older than the average father. (Me, at 13: "What the #$@&^*! is an entrepreneur?") Another lived in a brownstone next to the museum on 5th, with actual Picassos and other French artists' works in the place. His mom was a professional art curator. An easy walk to school. What a range of demographics...
To give you an idea about the commuter nature of the student body, years before my enrollment, the jacket and tie combination for students was removed in favor of a "business casual" look. Young nerdy kids on mass transit in a suit and a blazer was a "rob me" sign across MTA. Only one mugging I'm aware of during morning commute in my four years (a basketball player, actually, so no little scrawny Regis stereotype).
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Post by hcpride on Feb 1, 2024 15:11:58 GMT -5
I was a lower Westchester attendee 2000-2004. There was always a good 10-12 kids on the express bus from White Plains through Yonkers headed downtown towards Regis, Loyola, and a few for Marymount. Farthest Regis students in my day came from Stamford, Katonah... plenty from Staten Island, Brooklyn, and even a few from Jersey. Although, I did have two classmates in my homeroom in Freshman and Sophomore years that laughed when they heard I woke up at 6am to get to school on time. One, who lived on 85th Street, still managed to race the homeroom bell all disheveled, and had a car drive him the two blocks each day. His dad was an "entrepeneur" much older than the average father. (Me, at 13: "What the #$@&^*! is an entrepreneur?") Another lived in a brownstone next to the museum on 5th, with actual Picassos and other French artists' works in the place. His mom was a professional art curator. An easy walk to school. What a range of demographics... To give you an idea about the commuter nature of the student body, years before my enrollment, the jacket and tie combination for students was removed in favor of a "business casual" look. Young nerdy kids on mass transit in a suit and a blazer was a "rob me" sign across MTA. Only one mugging I'm aware of during morning commute in my four years (a basketball player, actually, so no little scrawny Regis stereotype). Today over 40% of Regis students commute to Regis from outside of the five boroughs. I don't recall any Regis kids from my part of Long Island when I was in high school but now know of several that are/were attending...I suspect this percentage is quite a bit higher than it was 45 years ago. FWIW we had a kid from my Catholic school mugged for his runners watch at Van Cortland Park during pre-race warmups back in 1979. Crazy times in NYC.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Feb 1, 2024 22:13:50 GMT -5
I was a lower Westchester attendee 2000-2004. There was always a good 10-12 kids on the express bus from White Plains through Yonkers headed downtown towards Regis, Loyola, and a few for Marymount. Farthest Regis students in my day came from Stamford, Katonah... plenty from Staten Island, Brooklyn, and even a few from Jersey. Although, I did have two classmates in my homeroom in Freshman and Sophomore years that laughed when they heard I woke up at 6am to get to school on time. One, who lived on 85th Street, still managed to race the homeroom bell all disheveled, and had a car drive him the two blocks each day. His dad was an "entrepeneur" much older than the average father. (Me, at 13: "What the #$@&^*! is an entrepreneur?") Another lived in a brownstone next to the museum on 5th, with actual Picassos and other French artists' works in the place. His mom was a professional art curator. An easy walk to school. What a range of demographics... To give you an idea about the commuter nature of the student body, years before my enrollment, the jacket and tie combination for students was removed in favor of a "business casual" look. Young nerdy kids on mass transit in a suit and a blazer was a "rob me" sign across MTA. Only one mugging I'm aware of during morning commute in my four years (a basketball player, actually, so no little scrawny Regis stereotype). Today over 40% of Regis students commute to Regis from outside of the five boroughs. I don't recall any Regis kids from my part of Long Island when I was in high school but now know of several that are/were attending...I suspect this percentage is quite a bit higher than it was 45 years ago. FWIW we had a kid from my Catholic school mugged for his runners watch at Van Cortland Park during pre-race warmups back in 1979. Crazy times in NYC. I would guess that during my time in HS (2002-2006) the % at Regis from outside the five boroughs wasn't much different than it was today if the 40% number is indeed correct. Maybe 30-35% then. And I don't think it was much different in the 1990's either. Public transit really hasn't gotten any more encompassing since the 80's (not knocking metro NYC public transit -- its great, it just hasn't gotten measurably better, faster or further reaching in 40+ years -- heck the Metro North Harlem Line went as far north as CHATHAM until the late 1970's). As far as where students come from, the core neighborhoods change over time. For example, when I was in HS, the top geographical feeders to Regis by far were Queens and Brooklyn. After that, Westchester County (90% of which were from Yonkers), Staten Island, New Jersey and Long Island in that order, followed by The Bronx and ironically Manhattan last. Yes, there were less Manhattan kids than from any of the other 4 boroughs, strange but true. Maybe transit (or lack thereof) related but one area I was always surprised didn't send more to Regis was Rockland County, especially since a decent # came from Bergen County AND Pearl River is one of the biggest Irish Catholic communities you can find. One difference now I'm guessing is true is that a lot of the kids that used to come to Regis from Brooklyn and Queens likely now come from towns like Massapequa, Seaford and Long Beach. Not that LI is inexpensive by any means but it is now much more affordable than traditional Regis strongholds like Bay Ridge, Bayside, Ridgewood and Whitestone. Regis has traditionally drawn from middle to upper middle class outer borough and suburban neighborhoods. In the 2000's many Regis students had parents who were middle class homeowners from Brooklyn and Queens whose houses are now worth 8-10x what they bought them for. Chances are current Regis students have parents who were more likely to have settled down further out from the city.
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Post by hcpride on Feb 2, 2024 8:48:30 GMT -5
Today over 40% of Regis students commute to Regis from outside of the five boroughs. I don't recall any Regis kids from my part of Long Island when I was in high school but now know of several that are/were attending...I suspect this percentage is quite a bit higher than it was 45 years ago. FWIW we had a kid from my Catholic school mugged for his runners watch at Van Cortland Park during pre-race warmups back in 1979. Crazy times in NYC. …I would guess that during my time in HS (2002-2006) the % at Regis from outside the five boroughs wasn't much different than it was today if the 40% number is indeed correct. Maybe 30-35% then. And I don't think it was much different in the 1990's either... …For example, when I was in HS, the top geographical feeders to Regis by far were Queens and Brooklyn. After that, Westchester County (90% of which were from Yonkers), Staten Island, New Jersey and Long Island in that order, followed by The Bronx and ironically Manhattan last. Yes, there were less Manhattan kids than from any of the other 4 boroughs, strange but true... Things change. The current ‘over 40%’ figure I noted is correct: www.regis.org/section/?id=103 You might also note the current Manhattan number (it is, by far, the leading borough for Regis students).
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Feb 2, 2024 12:10:12 GMT -5
…I would guess that during my time in HS (2002-2006) the % at Regis from outside the five boroughs wasn't much different than it was today if the 40% number is indeed correct. Maybe 30-35% then. And I don't think it was much different in the 1990's either... …For example, when I was in HS, the top geographical feeders to Regis by far were Queens and Brooklyn. After that, Westchester County (90% of which were from Yonkers), Staten Island, New Jersey and Long Island in that order, followed by The Bronx and ironically Manhattan last. Yes, there were less Manhattan kids than from any of the other 4 boroughs, strange but true... Things change. The current ‘over 40%’ figure I noted is correct: www.regis.org/section/?id=103 You might also note the current Manhattan number (it is, by far, the leading borough for Regis students). Definitely interesting to see the demographic change. With the suburban boom of the 60's, 70's and 80's trending more towards urbanism in the 90's up until COVID, probably a lot more families in residential Manhattan and places like downtown Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Hoboken and LIC than there were 20 years ago. And couples that started families in the mid 2000s would have kids in HS now. So makes sense you'd have more Regis kids coming from the heart of the city and further out suburbs as opposed to further outer borough neighborhoods like Bay Ridge, Forest Hills and Morris Park. The Staten Island # is way down.
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Post by jkh67 on Feb 2, 2024 15:52:08 GMT -5
I was a lower Westchester attendee 2000-2004. There was always a good 10-12 kids on the express bus from White Plains through Yonkers headed downtown towards Regis, Loyola, and a few for Marymount. Farthest Regis students in my day came from Stamford, Katonah... plenty from Staten Island, Brooklyn, and even a few from Jersey. Although, I did have two classmates in my homeroom in Freshman and Sophomore years that laughed when they heard I woke up at 6am to get to school on time. One, who lived on 85th Street, still managed to race the homeroom bell all disheveled, and had a car drive him the two blocks each day. His dad was an "entrepeneur" much older than the average father. (Me, at 13: "What the #$@&^*! is an entrepreneur?") Another lived in a brownstone next to the museum on 5th, with actual Picassos and other French artists' works in the place. His mom was a professional art curator. An easy walk to school. What a range of demographics... To give you an idea about the commuter nature of the student body, years before my enrollment, the jacket and tie combination for students was removed in favor of a "business casual" look. Young nerdy kids on mass transit in a suit and a blazer was a "rob me" sign across MTA. Only one mugging I'm aware of during morning commute in my four years (a basketball player, actually, so no little scrawny Regis stereotype). Jackets and ties were required in my day. I'm also a veteran of mandatory morning Mass at 7:00 in St. Joseph's Chapel, Monday through Friday, during freshman year at HC. Times change...and sometimes for the better. As for the commute, it took me an hour each way from the north Bronx on the White Plains Road/Lexington Avenue IRT. I was only concerned about MTA crime on those rare Friday evenings when I would be coming home between 9 and 10 p.m. -- usually after a Fordham Prep or Xavier basketball game or the occasional mixer. The seven stop stretch in the south Bronx between 149th Street and 180th could be a walk on the wild side.
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Post by rgs318 on Feb 2, 2024 18:40:38 GMT -5
I remember quite well the jackets, ties and daily Mass. I hated it most days in Chapel. Now my wife and I go to Mass on almost every weekday and get a good deal out of it. I just wish it had not taken almost half a century for that to kick in.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Feb 3, 2024 12:10:02 GMT -5
I was a lower Westchester attendee 2000-2004. There was always a good 10-12 kids on the express bus from White Plains through Yonkers headed downtown towards Regis, Loyola, and a few for Marymount. Farthest Regis students in my day came from Stamford, Katonah... plenty from Staten Island, Brooklyn, and even a few from Jersey. Although, I did have two classmates in my homeroom in Freshman and Sophomore years that laughed when they heard I woke up at 6am to get to school on time. One, who lived on 85th Street, still managed to race the homeroom bell all disheveled, and had a car drive him the two blocks each day. His dad was an "entrepeneur" much older than the average father. (Me, at 13: "What the #$@&^*! is an entrepreneur?") Another lived in a brownstone next to the museum on 5th, with actual Picassos and other French artists' works in the place. His mom was a professional art curator. An easy walk to school. What a range of demographics... To give you an idea about the commuter nature of the student body, years before my enrollment, the jacket and tie combination for students was removed in favor of a "business casual" look. Young nerdy kids on mass transit in a suit and a blazer was a "rob me" sign across MTA. Only one mugging I'm aware of during morning commute in my four years (a basketball player, actually, so no little scrawny Regis stereotype). Jackets and ties were required in my day. I'm also a veteran of mandatory morning Mass at 7:00 in St. Joseph's Chapel, Monday through Friday, during freshman year at HC. Times change...and sometimes for the better. As for the commute, it took me an hour each way from the north Bronx on the White Plains Road/Lexington Avenue IRT. I was only concerned about MTA crime on those rare Friday evenings when I would be coming home between 9 and 10 p.m. -- usually after a Fordham Prep or Xavier basketball game or the occasional mixer. The seven stop stretch in the south Bronx between 149th Street and 180th could be a walk on the wild side. I know that commute very well. I had the luxury of Metro North as an option as well, though. Would usually take that to 125 and then the 4/5 one stop to 86th. On way home, either subway going north or Metro North from 125 or GCT depending on train times. Sometimes, it was more convenient to go to Grand Central to get a seat on the train and relax if it wasn't time advantageous to go up to 125th. And if there was a long gap until next Metro North, just take the subway.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Feb 3, 2024 12:23:47 GMT -5
I was a lower Westchester attendee 2000-2004. There was always a good 10-12 kids on the express bus from White Plains through Yonkers headed downtown towards Regis, Loyola, and a few for Marymount. Farthest Regis students in my day came from Stamford, Katonah... plenty from Staten Island, Brooklyn, and even a few from Jersey. Although, I did have two classmates in my homeroom in Freshman and Sophomore years that laughed when they heard I woke up at 6am to get to school on time. One, who lived on 85th Street, still managed to race the homeroom bell all disheveled, and had a car drive him the two blocks each day. His dad was an "entrepeneur" much older than the average father. (Me, at 13: "What the #$@&^*! is an entrepreneur?") Another lived in a brownstone next to the museum on 5th, with actual Picassos and other French artists' works in the place. His mom was a professional art curator. An easy walk to school. What a range of demographics... To give you an idea about the commuter nature of the student body, years before my enrollment, the jacket and tie combination for students was removed in favor of a "business casual" look. Young nerdy kids on mass transit in a suit and a blazer was a "rob me" sign across MTA. Only one mugging I'm aware of during morning commute in my four years (a basketball player, actually, so no little scrawny Regis stereotype).You would think young nerdy kids wearing a backpack are an obvious target no matter what they're wearing. Not to mention, typically HS kids aren't going to be carrying a ton of cash, or have credit cards. I guess now everyone has a cell phone, not so much in 2002. I know the guy you speak of who got mugged, and such incidents were indeed very rare. I believe he played DIII college ball all four years after Regis. The 2000's were probably the safest time to be a high schooler on the NYC subway. My longtime roommate post-college, who attended both Holy Cross and Regis and who grew up in North Riverdale, was the youngest of 4 brothers who all went to Regis. He was '05 and his brothers were '87, '89 and '93. They definitely had some stories when the streets of Manhattan were a little rougher. They said probably about 3/4 Regis kids got jumped or mugged at some point during high school. I wonder if such occurrences are more common during the more recent "crime wave". I do hear that more of the Westchester/Bronx/CT guys who take Metro North go all the way into Grand Central to avoid drug-infested 125th Street these days. The only other "mugging" incident I remember was in November of 2004 when the Regis Varsity basketball team had a scrimmage at LaSalle while the JV had a scrimmage at home against LaSalle, at the same time. Regis baseball had a fall practice that day in the gym and apparently our catcher, who was a senior that year, was held up at knifepoint in the varsity locker room by several LaSalle players. Moments later, the our JV hoops team came in through the door to change and a brawl broke out. Guys were thrown down the stairs, etc. Ironically, this all took place hours before the "Malice at the Palace". The legendary Pistons-Pacers brawl was mainly escalated by Ron Artest, a LaSalle alum, charging into the stans to fight a fan who threw a water cup at him.
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Post by hchoops on Feb 3, 2024 12:57:18 GMT -5
I was a lower Westchester attendee 2000-2004. There was always a good 10-12 kids on the express bus from White Plains through Yonkers headed downtown towards Regis, Loyola, and a few for Marymount. Farthest Regis students in my day came from Stamford, Katonah... plenty from Staten Island, Brooklyn, and even a few from Jersey. Although, I did have two classmates in my homeroom in Freshman and Sophomore years that laughed when they heard I woke up at 6am to get to school on time. One, who lived on 85th Street, still managed to race the homeroom bell all disheveled, and had a car drive him the two blocks each day. His dad was an "entrepeneur" much older than the average father. (Me, at 13: "What the #$@&^*! is an entrepreneur?") Another lived in a brownstone next to the museum on 5th, with actual Picassos and other French artists' works in the place. His mom was a professional art curator. An easy walk to school. What a range of demographics... To give you an idea about the commuter nature of the student body, years before my enrollment, the jacket and tie combination for students was removed in favor of a "business casual" look. Young nerdy kids on mass transit in a suit and a blazer was a "rob me" sign across MTA. Only one mugging I'm aware of during morning commute in my four years (a basketball player, actually, so no little scrawny Regis stereotype).You would think young nerdy kids wearing a backpack are an obvious target no matter what they're wearing. Not to mention, typically HS kids aren't going to be carrying a ton of cash, or have credit cards. I guess now everyone has a cell phone, not so much in 2002. I know the guy you speak of who got mugged, and such incidents were indeed very rare. I believe he played DIII college ball all four years after Regis. The 2000's were probably the safest time to be a high schooler on the NYC subway. I realize that it is ancient history to some, but the.1960s were also safe on the subways.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Feb 3, 2024 15:06:27 GMT -5
Regis 65 Fordham Prep 54 last night, final score. Just saying.
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Post by jkh67 on Feb 4, 2024 9:05:58 GMT -5
Regis 65 Fordham Prep 54 last night, final score. Just saying. And we beat Xavier a few days back. We'd be leading the Jesuit League back in the day! Go Raiders! Speaking of which, can anyone tell me how we got the Raider soubriquet? The basketball court sports a replica of Temple's center court owl design and I would have thought the owl, a symbol of the Greek goddess Athena, would have been a natural.for a school once steeped in classical education.
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Post by lou on Feb 4, 2024 9:14:34 GMT -5
Regis 65 Fordham Prep 54 last night, final score. Just saying. And we beat Xavier a few days back. We'd be leading the Jesuit League back in the day! Go Raiders! Speaking of which, can anyone tell me how we got the Raider soubriquet? The basketball court sports a replica of Temple's center court owl design and I would have thought the owl, a symbol of the Greek goddess Athena, would have been a natural.for a school once steeped in classical education. Jumping on the Flaco bandwagon... NYTimes: The Year Flaco the Owl Roamed Free The Year Flaco the Owl Roamed Free www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/nyregion/flaco-owl-central-park-zoo.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Feb 4, 2024 9:29:54 GMT -5
Regis 65 Fordham Prep 54 last night, final score. Just saying. And we beat Xavier a few days back. We'd be leading the Jesuit League back in the day! Go Raiders! Speaking of which, can anyone tell me how we got the Raider soubriquet? The basketball court sports a replica of Temple's center court owl design and I would have thought the owl, a symbol of the Greek goddess Athena, would have been a natural.for a school once steeped in classical education. I was courtside at the Xavier game with a bunch of the boys from '05-'08! Coach Cullen hooked us up -- Regis-Xavier is a tough ticket these days. We got after it at Flannery's on 14th and 7th after the game. My last hurrah before my son is born in a week and a half. Regis Raiders sounds better than Regis Owls. I always thought the Raiders mantra came first and that the owl mascot came to be later on. It is the name of the school paper of course, though.
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Post by hcpride on Feb 4, 2024 11:23:02 GMT -5
Speaking of Regis sports, their athletic expenditures (regarding facilities, teams, etc. ) are rather prudently managed. Regis endures now as a ‘tuition free’ school due to careful management on both the endowment/fund raising side of things as well as the expenditure side of things. Including, but not limited to, the athletic program.
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Post by hchoops on Feb 4, 2024 11:54:31 GMT -5
Is the gym still on the top floor of the building ?
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Feb 4, 2024 12:45:42 GMT -5
Is the gym still on the top floor of the building ? Gym is on the 2nd floor. Theres another small, non-regulation gym in the basement.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Feb 4, 2024 12:47:48 GMT -5
Speaking of Regis sports, their athletic expenditures (regarding facilities, teams, etc. ) are rather prudently managed. Regis endures now as a ‘tuition free’ school due to careful management on both the endowment/fund raising side of things as well as the expenditure side of things. Including, but not limited to, the athletic program. Yes, and I think that's what's awesome about Regis. It's all about the experience and the quality of the education and less about the "frills and perks" you get at high-tuition private schools like Horace Mann, Collegiate, Trinity and Fieldston. Regis sports always punch above our weight though.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 5, 2024 10:38:52 GMT -5
Oh my gosh Coach Cullen reference...
My grade/range always understood it as the Regis Owls was the official name and mascot, but an Owl was kind of lame, so Raiders got worked in there for both "cool factor" and alliterative purposes.
I am rarely, if ever, "scared," on the subway, but it's been much more dicey in recent years than any time that I've taken the subway. Since the Great Resignation, as well as Mayor Adams' time in office, I used to walk Park Ave and not wander 2 blocks without seeing a cop (not just a traffic officer). Now, I can go weeks without seeing police. Getting on the subway at essentially any stop outside of Grand Central and the train is just pulling in? People rushing to not be late? It's like an Olympic hurdles event. Out of 13 people, I was the only one that paid the fair (and I CAN jump the thing, so don't say I'm just too out of shape nowadays).
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Post by xhaav on Feb 10, 2024 9:05:21 GMT -5
Many parishioners at my church on the UES of Manhattan send their children to elite day schools like Collegiate, Trinity, Spence, Chapin, etc and they will all tell you Regis is the best school in the city! My father and uncle, first generation Americans whose family had neither nor the means nor know-how to navigate private schools of this caliber in their new country, benefitted from the same merit and talent based admissions model at Boston Latin. Which brings me to the topic of standardized testing - but that’s for another thread!
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Post by princetoncrusader on Feb 10, 2024 15:16:09 GMT -5
I was at my local gym earlier this week peddling away on the Lifecycle clad in my purple Rise Together tee shirt when a white-haired gentlemen in a Fordham tee shirt approached and asked, "Did you go to Holy Cross?" So we had a nice chat about Fordham and HC and the various athletic battles over the years. He was there shortly after football was dropped and recalled getting flattened in an intramural football game by a varsity player who stayed on with his scholarship. In the course of our conversation, he mentioned that for high school he went to Xavier. I replied that my late dad went to Regis. He then said, "That school is the creme de la creme."
He claimed that if a student ended up on academic probation at Regis, then he could easily transfer to Xavier or Brooklyn prep.
So I have a new friend at the gym now.
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Post by mm67 on Feb 10, 2024 15:26:24 GMT -5
Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Townsend Harris and Hunter College High School come to mind as top NYC high schools. And, they are all public.
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Post by hchoops on Feb 10, 2024 18:40:49 GMT -5
Brooklyn Tech used to be very good. Unsure today
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Feb 10, 2024 20:32:53 GMT -5
Brooklyn Tech used to be very good. Unsure today Yes still is.
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