Church Street School for Music and Art

It offers a variety of courses for children, teens, and adults principally in music but also in studio arts and related fields.

The school relocated several times to accommodate a growing student body and teaching faculty and to adapt to the increasingly expensive conditions of lower Manhattan.

[2] Ecklund-Flores, who is also a professor of psychology at Mercy University and was an academic consultant for Blues Clues, stepped down as the Church Street School executive director in 2021.

[3] At the time, the school was noted to serve approximately 20,000 families in the New York Metropolitan area.

[5] The Church Street School bases its work in the pedagogical theories of the Dalcroze eurythmics and has been cited as engaging a significant, potemtial alternative model to traditional music education.