PS 8 Parents Pitched Plans for New Addition

The proposed expansion of P.S. 8 certainly gets point for contextuality! Judging from the rendering shown to the PTA of the Brooklyn Heights lower school, the architecture firm of Bostwick Purcell did its best to make the addition on Poplar Street look as if it had always been a part of the original building, which fronts on Hicks Street. The 18,000-square-foot addition is much needed giving the growing popularity of the school. “There will be a net gain of seven classrooms after all is said and done,” P.S. 8 Principal Seth Phillips told the Brooklyn Eagle yesterday. “Plus two resource room spaces and one office, and the bathrooms. There will also be an elevator installed which will allow for handicap access.” The construction is expected to take three years. You likey?
New Annex for Overcrowded Heights School Unveiled [Brooklyn Eagle]
The New PS 8 Annex [BH Blog]

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thank goodness some public money is making its way to this overlooked, downtrodden neighborhood.

Posted by: z at April 24, 2009 10:13 AM

The school is in Brooklyn Heights but it serves a wider area including one of the housing projects on the other side of DUMBO, the Walt Whitman Houses perhaps? or a portion of the Farragut Houses? In any case, the school is very diverse and over-crowded. they are presently making do with trailers parked in the playground so this is very good news for the children and the teachers. Bravo Dept. of Ed!

Posted by: mcKenzie at April 24, 2009 11:02 AM

Mr. B, we call public pre-k-through-5th grade public schools in NYC "elementary schools," not "lower schools."

Posted by: rf at April 24, 2009 12:01 PM

Its not offensive but I guess thats the point. Not terrible but not good either. When I see these historic throwbacks it seems as though we're saying our best days are behind us. There's nothing inspired and nothing to inspire. Poor kids.

Posted by: HDL at April 24, 2009 2:07 PM

I wouldn't get so philosophical about an elementary school addition.

Posted by: mcKenzie at April 24, 2009 2:49 PM

I'm with you. What about alleviating overcrowding in other District 13 schools? Oh wait, I know the city is shoving charter schools in as fast as they can. Why can't we guarantee a quality public school education for all our children?

Posted by: BrooklynIsHome at April 25, 2009 4:02 PM

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April 24, 2009

PS 8 Parents Pitched Plans for New Addition

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