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Planned middle school for DUMBO winter park high school may help Dock St. tower project
BY RACHEL MONAHAN
DAILY NEWS WRITER
Wednesday, August 6th 2008, 4:35 PM
A long-sought middle school for Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO may help boost a local developer's plans for a controversial tower.
School Construction Authority President Sharon Greenberger announced the agency's support for a school at the Dock St. tower project, raising neighborhood hackles.
"It's not an excuse for a building that most people in the district I school emergency plans represent would oppose," said Councilman David Yassky (D-Brooklyn Heights), citing concerns about skyline views from the Brooklyn Bridge asain school girl porn alongside the proposed tower.
"I'm encouraged [Department of Education officials] finally seem to be recognizing the desperate need for a middle school," he said. "Now they need to engage in a serious conversation about where is best to put it."
Developer Jed Walentas of Two Trees Management defended the plan for 45,000 minico high school square feet of classrooms, noting the project wouldn't soar higher than condo buildings nearby.
"We think the building is a win-win for everybody," he said. "I find it hard to believe that people can be opposed to this project."
Department of Education officials had opposed a new middle school for the area, citing underenrollment school closings in missouri in district middle schools.
But Department of Education spokeswoman Margie Feinberg said this week that the agency was preparing a new capital plan for this fall. "We'll look at pockets of overcrowding and pockets derry area school district of need," she said.
Greenberger voiced juniata county school district support for the DUMBO school last week as her agency announced plans for a new annex at Public School 8 in Brooklyn Heights.
"At this time we believe putting a middle school in the Dock St. project...is the most financially advantageous option for the city," she said.
Middle-class parents in the area have sought a middle school that would match the strengths of the now-popular elementary school. They cheered the agency's plans, but some said the project was less than ideal.
"My feeling is if somebody were to come up with an alternative to the Dock St. project, I think the community would be very happy," said Melissa Milgrom of Brooklyn Heights, whose two daughters attend PS 8. "We're in a fix, so you start to feel...these are the only people who are going to do something for our kids and provide odenville intermediate school alabama a decent middle school."
Rob Foley, whose two daughters also attend PS 8, and who lives next door to the proposed project, said he was enthusiastic chester ny school about the project.
"If the DOE moves forward with it, it's great," he said. "Then we can probably start seriously having a discussion about, well, where's the high school?"
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