Downtown school waitlists drop to zero
BY JOSH ROGERS |And then there were none. Lower Manhattan principals said Friday that their waiting lists have dropped to zero, meaning 5-year-olds waiting for kindergarten seats will receive offers to nearby schools next week. “I’m very happy — can’t you tell, I’m actually smiling,” said Ariana Massouh, a waitlisted parent who started a change.org [...]
BY JOSH ROGERS | [Updated with a statement from the Dept. of Education and Speaker Silver's full statement] The city acknowledged Wednesday that Lower Manhattan needs at least two more schools, according to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. “I am thrilled that all of the hard work we are doing on my School Overcrowding Task Force [...]
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BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER | “Nobody has done more for Gateway tenants than Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver,” said Glenn Plaskin, president of the Gateway Plaza Tenants Association. “For 20 years, he has been our strongest ally and a fierce supporter who believes in affordable housing.” Plaskin was addressing an audience of Gateway tenants assembled in [...]
Continue reading …By KAITLYN MEADE | With a shortage of public preschool seats in the area, two new, private preschools are opening up in Battery Park City this fall on South End Ave. A new Montessori school will open in September on the ground floor of the Regatta Building at 21 South End Ave., by the Battery [...]
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BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER | The New Amsterdam Market will be back in the South Street Seaport this summer on a limited basis. The market, which showcases local and regional food producers and small businesses that use their products, will hold monthly markets on South St. between Beekman St. and Peck Slip, starting Sun. June [...]
Continue reading …BY KAITLYN MEADE AND JOSH ROGERS | Community Board 1’s Youth and Education Committee is calling for P.S. 150 to move to a larger school building somewhere in Lower Manhattan rather than go up to Chelsea, as the city proposed last month. While a hypothetical relocation to a larger school raised some eyebrows, the handful [...]
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BY JOSH ROGERS | Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Councilmember Margaret Chin and State Sen. Daniel Squadron fired off a letter to Howard Hughes Corp. May 1 saying it was “incumbent” on the developer to come up with a way to allow the South Street Seaport Museum to stay. “As a leaseholder with plans to [...]
Continue reading …By JEFFERSON SIEGEL | Under a dazzling spring sun, City Councilmember Margaret Chin formally announced her campaign for a second term on Sun., May 5. Dozens, including local activists and powerhouse political allies like Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez, filled the steps of Independence Plaza North in Tribeca to show their support [...]
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BY JOSH ROGERS |(Updated with a quote from Seaport Museum president Susan Henshaw Jones) Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Councilmember Margaret Chin and State Sen. Daniel Squadron fired off a letter to Howard Hughes Corp. Wednesday saying it was “incumbent” on the developer to come up with a way to allow the South Street Seaport Museum [...]
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