P.S.8 Topped Out
The construction crew at P.S. 8 is definitely jamming. The four-story addition–18,000 square feet of much-needed space–has topped out in recent weeks. As you may recall from this rendering, the addition is being designed to match the existing building aesthetically so that the complex actually ends up looking like one building. The plan is for…
The construction crew at P.S. 8 is definitely jamming. The four-story addition–18,000 square feet of much-needed space–has topped out in recent weeks. As you may recall from this rendering, the addition is being designed to match the existing building aesthetically so that the complex actually ends up looking like one building. The plan is for the new building to be open for business for the 2011-2012 school year.
P.S. 8 Addition Flying Up [Brownstoner] GMAP
Foundation Goes in at P.S. 8 Addition [Brownstoner]
Construction Begins on P.S. 8 Addition [Brownstoner]
PS 8 Parents Pitched Plans for New Addition [Brownstoner]
This demonstrates part of the problem with the Bloomberg administration. They have allowed developers to build huge apartment complexes without requiring them to incorporate school buildings as part of the projects. Does anyone recall seeing a plan for a school to be part of the Atlantic Yards project? Won’t some of those 2000 apartments house children? (Local District 13 schools are already overcrowded.) And why not a school as part of BPP?
Later, the neighborhood schools will become grossly overcrowded, will have falling test scores, and then Bloomie and Kleinie will label the schools as “failing”, and will want to close them and replace them with their current miracle cure, charter schools.
I can’t see how/when the tsunami will subside. This school had to absorb an entirely new neighborhood (Dumbo), and will have to do so again if/when the JW buildings get converted to apartments. Nevermind 1BBP which is zoned for this school.
This addition only adds 7 classrooms. I can’t see that there will ever be room for a middle school here. And Dock St is proposed for only 300 kids. I wish the city had converted the old police building instead of selling it off.
I thought the neighborhood wanted the middle school as part of PS8? It would seem the most logical and convenient thing.
If and when the Dock Street condo gets built, a new middle school will be located in it. If that happens, then I agree that k-8 in PS8 would be overkill. But for now, parents are having to scramble after fifth grade.
The neighborhood wants a nearby middle school, but I don’t think there’s any consensus that converting P.S. 8 from K-5 to K-8 is the best solution.
I hope that once the current tsunami of little kids subsides that they will turn the school into grades 1-through-8, which is what the neighborhood really wants.