Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) today declared his vehement opposition to the New York City School Construction Authority’s plan to build a new primary school adjacent to P.S. 160, located on 52nd Street between Fort Hamilton Parkway and 11th Avenue. Citing the need to ease overcrowded conditions at P.S. 160, the City plans to develop an annex to accommodate 535 students in pre-kindergarten through grade five.
“Our research revealed that P.S. 160 has a 500 person capacity with a current enrollment of 821 students,” said Assemblyman Hikind. “It is disingenuous for the City to try and justify the need for a 535-seat school for 321 students. Had the School Construction Authority actually done its job, and investigated alternate sites as I did, they would have discovered that neighboring schools such as P.S. 164 are totally underutilized.”
Hikind continued, “Instead, the City, which is already facing a huge budget shortfall, is being fiscally irresponsible. Why would you build a new, absurdly expensive public school in a community which largely attends private schools? This project is wholly unnecessary and financially unsound.”
A public hearing on this issue has been scheduled for Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 6:00PM at the Amico Senior Center: 5901 13th Avenue in Brooklyn. Assemblyman Hikind strongly urges the community to attend this hearing to voice additional opposition.
(Moshe Altusky – YWN NYC)
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if theyre building a new school why would they only build enough for the amount of students today??? what about planning for the future?
i guess that’s why we got into this financial mess. because the politicians only cared about today and not the future
so if he has such a problem, let him become a councilman. until then, he should be quiet, and maybe actually go to albany and vote on something, like lowering our taxes! maybe a law mandating term limits voted in by the electorate be voted out the same way.
#3 DONT BE A HATER, DOV IS A GREAT MAN WHO SPEAKS OUT FOR HIS COMMUNITY, THATS MORE THAN YOU CAN SAY FOR YOURSELF AN ANONYMOUS POSTER ON A WEBSITE, WHATS YOUR PROBLEM, WE NEED MORE OUTSIDERS IN OUR COMMUNITY BULLYING OUR CHILDREN AND DENTING OUR CARS?IF MORE JEWS SPOKE OUT FOR THE KLAL AND STOPPED ARBITRARILY BASHING PEOPLE THEY COULD NEVER BE WE WOULD BE A STRONGER COMMUNITY.
Whether you like him or you hate him, you have to agree with his logic, “Why would you build a new, absurdly expensive public school in a community which largely attends private schools?”
A Shtarkeh S’voreh!
A public school does not belong in Boro Park. It is an interloper, bringing in prople who do not live in the community.
Build the school where it belongs, in the neighborhood it serves.
The same is true of Maimonides Hospital’s expansion plans, Dov. Let the hospital expand in the Chinese and Pakistani communities, who make up the majority (75%) of the patients in the Hospital.
Why should Boro-Park West bear the quality of life costs of supporting a foreign entity.