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New Dock Street School Opens

By on September 7, 2016 12:31 pm in Development, Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO, Education, Kids, Neighborhoods, News, Other Brooklyn, Parents, Real Estate, schools, Vinegar Hil

Your correspondent got notice Monday that at 1:00 p.m. yesterday there would be a ribbon cutting by Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña for the new Dock Street School, a public middle school (grades 6 through 8), drawing “a diverse student body from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Fort Greene, Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO, Brooklyn Heights, Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, Vinegar Hill […]

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P.S. 8 on List of Schools With Hazardous PCB Laden Lighting Fixtures

By on December 7, 2011 1:42 pm in Education, Environment, Government, Health

We’ve received word from the office of Congressman Jerrold Nadler that P.S. 8 is on the list of schools, compiled by the City’s School Construction Authority, that have old lighting fixtures containing polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. These are carcinogens, and are considered especially hazardous to pregnant women. According to Dr. Maida Galvez, Director of the […]

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