A School Washed Away by Sandy
Robert Pondiscio with a sad story of a NYC school “washed away in the storm”:
P.S. 333, the Goldie Maple School, is an Official Core Knowledge School in New York City. It started the year with an enrollment of 578 children. This morning, fewer than 30 showed up for the first scheduled day of class since hurricane Sandy punished the city eight days ago.
The school sits less than two blocks from the Atlantic Ocean in the Arverne section on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, a neighborhood that lay defenseless against the storm. Hundreds of homes in the Rockaways were damaged or destroyed when a 12-foot storm surge submerged the slender spit of land in seawater and sand. P.S. 333 was too badly damaged to occupy when New York City schools reopened this week–one of 79 schools in 44 buildings deemed unsafe.
posted by Whitney Tilson at 2:00 AM
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