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Add a school day to the list of casualties wrought by the powerful storm that swept through parts of Brooklyn and Queens last night.

John Bowne High School in Flushing is too severely damaged to open today, the city announced in the middle of the night. Its 3,100 students will return to classes on Monday, according to an alert posted on the school’s website.

Previously, Mayor Bloomberg had said he thought all schools would open normally today. “There have been reports of damage to school buildings,” he said around 9:30 p.m. while surveying damage at Terrace on the Park, a catering hall about a mile from John Bowne. “We do expect all schools to be open tomorrow, but we’ll just — as the night goes on, we’ll make sure that everything is safe.”

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Here’s the city’s 3 a.m. email announcing John Bowne’s closure: (more…)