Residents living near the Bayside Jewish Center rallied with state Sen. Tony Avella on Thursday against a proposed high school planned for their neighborhood.
Around 75 people showed up at the intersection of 32nd Avenue and 204th Street and largely complained of overcrowded traffic and buses due to the existence of several other schools in the nearby vicinity, including a number of elementary schools and Bayside High School, which serves a student body of more than 3,000 only four blocks away.
While the protesters agreed that new schools should be built for local students, they did not think that their community could accommodate a school with a planned capacity of between 800 and 1,000 students.
Avella said the School Construction Authority (SCA) has systematically chosen school sites without the support of residents and elected officials, citing an unsuccessful 2013 outcry against an elementary school being built on 48th Avenue. He is introducing legislation which would amend education law to require detailed analyses to be made available upon the proposed construction of a new school in a city of over a million in population.
Councilman Paul Vallone, however, indicated that while compromises with the community will have to be made in the process leading up to the school’s construction, he looks forward to seeing a new school in his district, whether it is installed at the former Jewish center or at an alternative site.
14 comments:
Can't they build a high school on flushing airport?
Maybe too many bodies buried there?
Would Bayside prefer a homeless shelter instead?
Paul Vallone has no problems with it. You should have heard him at the recent Broadway Flushing Homeowners' Association meeting Thursday night. He was slinging BS about "...this is for your kids...".
Yeah, right, you liar,! Anyone can choose any high school they wish to attend. That means busing.
Bayside High school already gets bussed in students.
Dump Vallone next election or things will get worse.
Anonymous said...
Can't they build a high school on flushing airport?
Maybe too many bodies buried there?
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You're an idiot!!!
Avella is so off on this one, first he complains out them not upgrading community services as neighborhoods grow but then complains when they do.
The bussing will be minor as they are HS students and most will take public transportation, only special needs students get bussing in HS.
"The bussing will be minor"...
Yes, it's much better to have hundreds of kids overburden the MTA lines that commuters need to get to work. Also, the MTA runs special buses for high schools.
The MTA also runs special trains for baseball games, what's your point?
The point is there's going to be a traffic jam.
Bus the asians out to those schools that don't have many students in them. I read of this one high school that only has 300 kids in the whole school.
The last thing queens needs is new schools. There's so much empty space in the ones we have.
"Anonymous said...
Bus the asians out to those schools that don't have many students in them. I read of this one high school that only has 300 kids in the whole school."
You have a point
How long will this go on? Cash purchases, multiple families in single family houses, zoning laws discrepancies, water and sewer bursting at seems due to multifamily housing/"hotels" taking place of one-level single families on 32 Avenue and all over Bayside.
DOE and SCA should seriously look at improving and populating empty seats in empty schools, they are close enough, even in Flushing.
They are going to make new school while nearby Bayside High cannot get funds
to have SCA repair tennis courts last 10 years and repair pool for over 2 years!
I don't care for politicians; all they do is play “don’t see-don’t hear-don’t say” game fishing for extra votes from "hard working "minority" population? Need to redefine minorities in Bayside ASAP
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"Anonymous said... Would Bayside prefer a homeless shelter instead?"
Where do you live o brave "Anonymus"? Maybe there should be homeless shelter next to you house? Whadayasay?
TO Anonymous who said...Would Bayside prefer a homeless shelter instead?"
How abut another asian "community center/church/hotel/massage place"?
They have no problem getting permits.....while Bayside High School has violations on tennis courts for years, and the way DOE deals with it? Keep the courts closed. here is no one to bribe the DOB.
The school no one wants or needs will cost you $113.6 million according to the SCA budget. Call Vallone and the SCA now to tell them we don't want it and we don't need it.
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