Washington Heights in Northern Manhattan became a predominantly Greek neighborhood in the 1950s, when the largest Greek parish in the country settled there to attend the St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church.

Many of those families are gone now and replaced by Spanish-speaking ones.

But the small St. Spyridon Parochial School next to the church still requires its students to learn one of the world’s oldest languages. For Northattan Radio, Robin Respaut reports.