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The school will house just grades K through 5th to create more room for kindergartners, officials said.
Four of Downtown's five zoned elementary schools have kindergarten waitlists, school staff said.
Lower Manhattan saw 1,086 births in 2010.
The Peck Slip School, opening in 2015, will have 656 seats, rather than 476.
The District 2 Community Education Council expressed concerns about the city's rezoning proposal on Oct. 17, 2011.
Parents fighting a city plan to send students to Chinatown claim it will hurt the area's development.
At least 25 P.S. 234 families were told that they will go to P.S. 130 instead.
The rezoning would send downtown kids to Chinatown and the Village.
The school will open in Tweed Courthouse in the fall of 2012, the DOE said.
Construction on a new 400-seat school in lower Manhattan will not begin until 2014, the city said.
The popular school has received 163 applications for 125 seats.
Cathie Black, the new schools chancellor, listened to downtown parents' concerns at a meeting Thursday.
Parents expect another surge in lower Manhattan kindergarten applications for fall 2011.
The Upper East Side's newly drawn public school boundaries set to take effect for fall 2011, but they may not solve problem of waitlists
Innovate Manhattan Charter School will use the space for three years starting in fall 2011.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio said terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov should be spared the death penalty.
The actress spotted the suspect outside her third-floor balcony, sources said.
A shortage of bilingual therapists has made the problem especially difficult in some districts.
The victim suffered a fractured skull base, multiple spinal fractures, bruised lungs and other injuries.
The break happened just after 4 a.m. on Pacific Street near Albany Avenue.
Officer Ryan Nash shot Sayfullo Saipov who killed eight people with a rented truck, officials said.
The new owners have no plans to change the properties, according to a realtor who brokered the deal.
The deadly attack left eight people dead and a dozen injured, officials said.
Five men from Argentina, a woman from Belgium, a West Village resident and a man from N.J. were killed.
The vote paves the way for developers to build a complex with retail space and 1,146 apartments.
The Queens County Bird Club is hoping to install two bird feeders in the park by the end of November.
Sayfullo Saipov was charged by federal prosecutors on Wednesday with aiding ISIS in a terror attack.
A new art gallery features the work of recovering addicts in East Harlem.
Catwalks, balconies, a secret staircase and elaborate ceiling panels were uncovered at the theater.
Preservation groups are writing letters — in crayon — to the library, which owns the home.