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Photo Gallery: P.S. 9 and M.S. 571 Celebrate New Playground

A traditional Dominican welcome dance, poetry, songs and more marked the event.

P.S. 9 and M.S. 571 celebrated the opening of its $305,000 playground yesterday with song, dance and poetry.

At yesterday’s ribbon cutting Kindergarten class B2 performed a traditional Dominican welcome dance, Kindergarten class B6 performed “Our New Playground, and middle school students Kemba Cooper and Jamal St. Rose recited original poems.

Then P.S. 9’s Christian Vega cut the ribbon, flanked by fellow students Nyah Caldwell and Charlotte Herz.

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