One of the miseries of being a teacher is that every year, someone shows up from Tweed Courthouse headquarters with a new plan to raise test scores.
To that, people in the audience began chanting "bring Debbie back," as they did several times during the hourlong protest, which brought several school officials out of their offices at Tweed Courthouse headquarters.
Two or three times a day, often more, Deputy Mayor Dennis M. Walcott scoots out the back door of City Hall and strides 43 paces to the rear entrance of the Tweed Courthouse, headquarters of the city's Department of Education.
So they turned instead to the Tweed Courthouse, the headquarters of the Education Department.
The Tweed Courthouse, new headquarters of the the mayor's education system, was, of course, Boss Tweed's enduring landmark.
Situated in a drab, nine-story Brutalist-style building nestled among the federal courthouse, Police Headquarters and the Church of St. Andrew, the office has a history of high-profile prosecutions and personnel.
A new mobile game, The Teachers of New York City, changes that, turning public school teachers into heroes and heroines who can advance from one level to the next by opening closed schools and cleaning out Tweed Courthouse, the headquarters of the city's Education Department.
To kick off the summer training session yesterday morning, Mr. Klein and Deputy Mayor Dennis M. Walcott posed for photographs with the 90 recruits in the basement of the Tweed Courthouse, the headquarters of the city's Education Department, before ushering them off to class.
John Jay organized the itinerary of the recent delegation from Hubei, making dates at courthouses and headquarters and offering pizza parlor recommendations.
Fighters in the Free Syrian Army rebel coalition, who have long begged the United States to aid them more forcefully, honed plans to storm government bases, while their sometime allies in extremist Islamist groups — convinced they were as much a target as the government — scrambled for cover, taking down banners outside Shariah courthouses and headquarters and moving to new locations.
But unfortunately, that means no more newsroom with a view just blocks from courthouses, police headquarters, and city and government offices -- and certainly no salutes from frolicking dolphins.
