The owner of the homeless shelter at the former Pan American hotel has filed plans to build a school on an adjacent site, according to building records.
David Levitan, one of the largest homeless shelter landlords in the city, has filed plans with the Department of Buildings to construct a 4-story school at 79-20 Queens Blvd in Elmhurst, on the lot directly next to the 79-00 Queens Blvd. shelter that he also owns.
Levitan, who is listed as the property owner on record, filed the plans on Nov. 22 to build the 39,764-square-foot school.
The school will house at least 18 classrooms, as well as multiple science labs, a music room, a fine arts room, a media lab, a teachers lounge, a cafeteria and kitchen, a rooftop play area and several offices, according to the plans.
The building will reach 53 feet in height, according to building plans. The plan makes no mention of whether the school will be public or privately run.
The school will sit next to the shelter, as Levitan bought a number of properties along the strip.
Levitan bought three sites — 79-20 Queens Blvd., 79-14 Queens Blvd. and 79-13 51st Ave. — next to the former hotel for $3,750,000 in April 2014, months after he brought the hotel site for $23,100,000 in January 2014, according to city records. He bought each lot from Panamendel Corp.
Wow. Apparently, with over tens of thousands of homeless children attending school, something like this was inevitable. The tale of two cities continues...
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Eh, I have no problem with this. People can't bitch about there being no infrastructure (like schools) when there's an influx of new residents and then nay say this. That empty lot is un-used, and benefits no one just sitting empty. New school is better than there being nothing, literally. Just don't mess with that supermarket I like to go nearby, ha.
School for what? Dumpfelschnarkelen?
They sure as sh*t better have proper noise mitigation in place... this is an area that once was called "little e" for proximity to an airport.
Anon^ this is America, speak English or go back to leatherhosenland, you kraut.
But what KIND of homeless is living in this shelter? Is it an all men's shelter with child predators who were just let out of prison? Or is it actual FAMILIES who live in this shelter? I would like to know who is living in this shelter before a school is built in the area.
Achtung Dummkopf! Not "leatherhosenland" but "Lederhosenland".
"Anonymous Fraulein McGillicuddy said...
Achtung Dummkopf! Not "leatherhosenland" but "Lederhosenland"."
Thank you for correcting that racist.
Another school? There are three schools the in the area. Will neighborhood kids be allowed to go to that school since shelter kids go to the other over crowded schools?
In 1900 one fifth of the USA spoke only German.
Ike was the first generation of his family not to
grow up German after two hundred years in America.
It was only Black Tom JC NJ that made them
ashamed to speak German
Tell that to all the papists who agitated to bomb the Serbs.
Then when they got blowback on 9/11 they pork for 9/11 "illness".
How about the illness imposed on Serb kids?
Or on Israeli kids by all the Hamas rockets the Irish-Arab banks support?
And then Giuliani got his Albanian in-laws t burn down the Serb church in Chelsea
Bidenheads marry mexicans for trident gum then habibulate rohynga
Trumputins back to hazarqstyne
Anonymous said... "Trumputins back to hazarqstyne"
Can you please explain this statement? Thank you.
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