P.S./I.S. 276, the Battery Park City School
55 Battery Place | Battery Park City | built 2008
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- 2010
Officials cut the ribbon on Battery Park City's $81 million green school
City and state officials gathered at 55 Battery Place on October 13 to open P.S./I.S. 276, which cost $81 million and was billed as the greenest school in New York. Schools Chancellor Joel Klein used the moment to note how far Lower Manhattan had come in under a decade since September 11. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said the area would still need more schools. The school was meant to hold 950 students, 100 of them in a special education program.
Source: dnainfo.com
- 2010
John Woelfling's eight-story school goes up on a narrow lot with solar panels and living walls
Because the site was a narrow strip and zoning limited how far it could spread, the school was built upward, eight stories tall, to John Woelfling's design. Solar panels were meant to supply up to half of the lighting, and an outdoor science classroom overlooking New York Harbor was to have plant walls. A recycling program starts with the preschool classes.
Source: dnainfo.com
- 2013
Parents warn that overcrowding is squeezing P.S. 276's art, science and music
Less than three years after the school opened, families said overcrowding threatened its art, science and music programs. Parents asked the city to cap kindergarten at three classes, though the school had been taking five classes of 25 children. Downtown's population had nearly doubled since 2001, and nearly 100 kindergartners had been waitlisted for their zoned Downtown schools the previous spring.
Source: dnainfo.com
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