Lower Manhattan school rezoning

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

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

State Sen. Daniel Squadron suggested that the Department of Education vacate its offices at Tweed Courthouse to make way for a school.

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.

The DOE's new plan sends some children zoned for P.S. 234 in TriBeCa to P.S. 1 in Chinatown instead.

The DOE will offer a new plan for rezoning Downtown's schools, after parents objected to an earlier proposal.

The Peck Slip School, opening in 2015, will have 656 seats, rather than 476.

A DOE official said the city may not force TriBeCa children to attend P.S. 3 in Greenwich Village as proposed.

The District 2 Community Education Council expressed concerns about the city's rezoning proposal on Oct. 17, 2011.

Brokers predict that proposed school rezoning in District 2, which covers TriBeCa, won't significantly affect condo prices, as some have feared.

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

Parents in northern TriBeCa want to send their children to the local P.S. 234, not P.S. 3 in Greenwich Village.

The city wants to send TriBeCa children living above North Moore Street to the Greenwich Village's P.S. 3.

Parents fighting a city plan to send students to Chinatown claim it will hurt the area's development.