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by Orubba Almansouri
Even though school has been out all summer, contractors for the Department of Education have been hard at work on renovation projects throughout Northern Manhattan schools.
According to Jack Zarin-Rosenfeld, a spokesperson for the department, the DOE has spent $140 million on 23 renovation projects in District 6, which includes schools in Northern Manhattan.
These projects are part of the department’s 2010-2014 five-year Capital Plan. Those improvements include projects like a facelift for P.S. 48 on Broadway and W. 186th Street, new Internet, telephone and intercom lines in the classrooms of PS 178 on Bogardus and Ellwood Streets, and new toilets at P.S. 189 on Amsterdam Avenue and W. 189th Street.
Citywide the DOE will spend $11.3 billion over the five years on physical upgrades to its schools. This year the department will spend the least during the plan - $198 million. Next year it has budgeted $374 million for improvements citywide. In the third year of the plan it will spend $214, peaking at $443.8 million in the last year of the Capital Plan.
Though Zarin-Rosenfeld could not give dollar costs for all of the renovations in Northern Manhattan, the following improvements are done or are in the works.
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Where: PS.48 – Broadway and W. 186th Street
When: 2010-2012
What: Exterior masonry – exterior walls
Cost: $ 2,619,632
Where: PS.98 – W. 212th St. between Broadway and 10th Ave.
When: 2010-2012
What: Paved parking lot
Cost: $1,662,451
Where: IS. 143 – W. 182nd St. and Audubon Ave.
When: 2010-2012
What: Flood elimination – interior structure foundation of the walls, exterior roofing, areaway gratings, areaway slab, areaway stair railings, awnings and canopies, chimney, exterior walls
Cost: $6,771,151
Where: I.S. 218 – Broadway and W. 196th St.
When: 2010-2012
What: Flood elimination – waste drainage, storm system sump pump, interior – structural foundation walls, exterior – exterior windows
Cost: $6,351,460
Where: P.S. 8 – W. 168th St. and Amsterdam Ave.
When: 2010-2014
What: paved area concrete
Where: P.S.189 – W. 189th St. and Amsterdam Ave.
When: 2010-2014
What: Student’s toilets
Where: P.S. 178 – Bogardus and Elwood Sts.
When: 2010-2014
What: Classroom connectivity, new/retrofit telephone intercom system
Where: P.S. 187 – Cabrini Blvd. and W. 187th St.
When: 2010-2014
What: Classroom connectivity, new/retrofit telephone intercom system
Where: P.S. 132 – W. 183rd St. between Wadsworth and St. Nicholas Aves.
When: 2010-2014
What: Student’s toilets
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