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Battery Park City

May 13, 2013

Parents Slam DOE Failure to Plan for Downtown Kindergarten Wait-Lists

More than 100 kids remain on the wait-lists for Downtown kindergartens.

Financial District

April 05, 2013

Popular Downtown Schools Add Whopping 148 Children to Wait-List

Most of lower Manhattan's elementary schools have placed children on long wait-lists.

TriBeCa

February 14, 2013

Popular Downtown Schools Face Kindergarten Lotteries Once Again

P.S. 234 and P.S. 276 will both have to hold lotteries for kindergarten this year.

Battery Park City

February 11, 2013

Downtown Families Face Space Crunch in Beloved Schools

Lower Manhattan's elementary schools are popular but overcrowded.

Astoria

February 11, 2013

Schools with Gifted Programs in Demand in Western Queens

The neighborhood's most sought-after schools include P.S. 122, P.S. 85 and P.S. 166, known for their G&T.

TriBeCa

June 11, 2012

City Will Fix Downtown School 'Crunch' by Sending Kids to Chinatown

Dozens of Downtown kids could be given spaces at P.S. 1 in Chinatown as soon as the fall of 2013.

Battery Park City

May 23, 2012

Battery Park City School Opens Extra Kindergarten to Take Waitlisted Kids

P.S. 276 will open a fifth section of kindergarten in the fall of 2012, staff said.

TriBeCa

May 07, 2012

TriBeCa's P.S. 234 Accepts All Waitlisted Kindergarteners

P.S. 234 is opening a sixth kindergarten class to accommodate waitlisted children.

Downtown

April 23, 2012

Parents Slam City Solutions for Downtown Kindergarten Waitlists

Parents said the city needs to build another new school in Lower Manhattan.

Downtown

March 28, 2012

Popular Downtown Schools Waitlist Nearly 100 Children

Four of Downtown's five zoned elementary schools have kindergarten waitlists, school staff said.

Downtown

January 26, 2012

TriBeCa's P.S. 234 Will Hold Lottery for Kindergarten Seats

P.S. 234 has received 163 applications for 125 kindergarten seats.

Downtown

January 24, 2012

TriBeCa Kids Give Local Chefs a Hand in the Kitchen

Students from P.S. 234 and P.S. 150 took a field trip to Roc restaurant Jan. 24, 2012.

Downtown

January 17, 2012

Nearly Half P.S. 234's Kindergarten Seats Already Gone to Siblings

Siblings of current P.S. 234 students snapped up 52 of the 125 available seats.

Downtown

November 29, 2011

City Scraps Plan to Send TriBeCa Kids to Chinatown, But Warns of Waitlists

P.S. 234's current zone will remain intact in the fall of 2012, DOE officials said Monday.

Downtown

November 17, 2011

Parents Veto School Rezoning Plan That Would Send TriBeCa Kids to Chinatown

The District 2 Community Education Council asked the Department of Education to go back to the drawing board at a meeting on Nov. 16, 2011.