douglass-map-121710.jpgWe don’t know anything more than what’s in this email we received this morning but thought it might be of interest to some parents out there. Hopefully we’ll get more details on the exact location soon. “Last night Brooklyn Prospect Charter School announced their new site to be completed by the Fall of 2012. It will be on Douglass Street near 3rd Avenue, near the D & D Pool. Brooklyn Prospect is an International Baccalaureate School for 6th through eventually 12th grade currently located in the new Sunset Park High School. The building will be 75,000 square feet and with basement and roof use. Brooklyn Prospect will be the only tenant.” Update: The new school will not be located in the Daily News building. It is a ground-up new construction project on a lot in the middle of the block between 3rd and Nevins.


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  1. I heard that the D&D pool is going to have to come out to clean up the mess underneath, unfortch for marty and all of us who enjoy a nice summer swim even if it is in a toxic waste dump. On the plus side, Thomas Greene Park may get a nice fat facelift, I hear. They cleaned up the Whole Foods site so presumably they’ll clean up this one if need be.

  2. The land under the D&D Pool and adjoining Thomas Greene Park is one of the most polluted sites in the city. A coal-to-gas plant sat there, and there is evidently a large coal tar plume underneath. The EPA recently cited the plume as a major source of pollution for the Gowanus Canal.

    Can someone speak as to how that pollution will or will not impact a building full of young teenagers?