by Emma Davey Ask around, and many parents will tell you that, while the ones we have are quality, Greenpoint is lacking in elementary schools to accommodate all the kiddos here. A recently-revived proposal to build a new elementary school at 257 Franklin Street could change that.
An upcoming meetingon December 19 will address the proposed site, located at Franklin and Dupont streets. The meeting is hosted by NYC School Construction Authority and School District 14,…
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Build a new school? Young men are dropping out of most things in life including having kids in record numbers never before seen in modern history. Schools are closing at a record rate never before seen in this country. We need a new school like Alaska need. more ice.
Concerns about opening a school? I don’t get it. Why not? There are 4500+ new units in this area. Seems appropriate to school some of them nearby.
Because the site was not in fact fully remediated.
‘Quality’ schools? Debatable
Yes, but relatively speaking they don’t have kids. 39% of American households have kids which itself is a tremendous drop from as little as 20 yrs ago. Only app. 18% of Greenpointers have kids even though the adult pop. is extremely young.
The only reason to build a new school by Greenpoint Landing would be possibly nearer to more kids in which case they would have to knock down one or two of the schools elsewhere in Greenpoint. The one at Meserole and McGuiness was built in 1867 and is the oldest in the city rumored to have treated Civil War injured as a make shift hospital.
There’s no school on Meserole and McGuiness
Too bad they didn’t actually remediate the NuHart site, and the soil beneath the school site is still polluted with toxic chemicals. Children deserve a clean and safe school, not a superfund wasteland.
More schools the better for all of us.. Treacherous land, if safe and not forgetting the super fund creek ..
I could use it. 4 kids and another in the way. Greenpoint is getting bigger.
Why is the school being proposed inches away from a phthalate plume rather than on a clean swath of land? This article makes it sounds like the plume will be cleaned up before construction. That’s not true. Barriers will be put into the ground to supposedly prevent the phthalates from reaching the school. Will barriers be trusted not to rupture and protect children? Contamination also remains under the residential buildings at the Nuhart site and will be monitored perpetually.
In the street the phthalates will not be remediated at all because it would be difficult to do in the midst of all the services lines.
I don’t believe a school on that site is in the best interest of the children. Why wasn’t a school planned within the waterfront properties? This article also doesn’t mention an online option. The meeting is on an upper floor if the school and not accessible for all.
Hi Laura the meeting will be held in the cafeteria it’s only a small flight from to the street