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P.S. 89

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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

March 04, 2013

Despite New School, Beloved Downtown Pre-K Programs Remain in Huge Demand

A new pre-K is coming to Lower Manhattan, but parents still want to see more seats in the area.

Battery Park City

February 11, 2013

Downtown Families Face Space Crunch in Beloved Schools

Lower Manhattan's elementary schools are popular but overcrowded.

Elmhurst

January 09, 2013

Community Board Approves New 'Slow Zone' For Elmhurst

The new zone will reduce speeds by 10 mph and add speed bumps and signage to the area.

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.

Battery Park City

May 17, 2012

Waitlisted Battery Park City Kindergarteners Will Go to Chinatown, DOE Says

Battery Park City parents were upset their children might have to attend school outside the neighborhood.

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.

Morris Park & Parkchester

April 01, 2012

12-Year-Old Boy Vanishes From Bronxwood School

Arron Ferrera, 12, went missing from P.S. 89 at 980 Mace Ave. on March 30, 2012.

Manhattan

March 29, 2012

City May Kill Pre-K Classes to Accommodate Waitlisted Kindergartners

The DOE may eliminate pre-k programs to free up space for hundreds of waitlisted kindergartners.

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 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

January 04, 2012

How to Prepare Your Preschooler for Gifted and Talented Tests

Every January, thousands of New York preschoolers vie for scarce gifted and talented 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

October 12, 2011

Don't Split TriBeCa School Zone, CB1 Committee Says

CB1's Youth and Education Committee opposes the plan to cut P.S. 234's zone in half.