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City Will Work Through Weekend to Open Schools Monday, Tells Kids 'Do Extra Homework'

By Michael P. Ventura | February 26, 2010 6:40am | Updated on February 26, 2010 11:48am
The sign at P.S. 9 on the Upper West Side shows that schools
The sign at P.S. 9 on the Upper West Side shows that schools "is" closed. Check minus for the bad grammar.
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Nicole Breskin / DNAinfo

MANHATTAN — The city said on Friday that it will work through the weekend to clear the roads in time for school Monday morning.

Students across the Manhattan and the five boroughs got a surprise snow day on Friday when a major storm dumped more than a foot of snow on the city.

"I want to get those schools opened up," Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty said at a press conference Friday at a department garage in the Meatpacking District. "I want to get those buses in there."

And while students got a free day off — the second snow day this year but just the fourth in the last six years — Chancellor Joel Klein had a message for students.

"We are encouraging all our kids to do a little extra homework this weekend," Klein said at the press conference.

Shuma Saito didn't get the word schools were closed until he arrived at P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village.
Shuma Saito didn't get the word schools were closed until he arrived at P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village.
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Serena Solomon / DNAinfo

All New York City public schools are closed on Friday as a Nor'Easter continued to batter the area.

Klein and Mayor Michael Bloomberg explained during the press conference that the city didn't close schools on Thursday because the storm unexpectely worsened overnight, prompting the abrupt about-face.

"The forecast when I went to bed looked like we would be able to [keep schools open]," Bloomberg said. "But in the morning when the snowfall was heavier, we did what we're supposed to do."

"I'm sorry, things happen," Bloomberg said.

The last minute announcement came shortly after 5 a.m., just before parents and kids were to get ready for school. But not everyone heard the news in time.

Maki Saito watched the news just before the Dept. of Education announced the school closures, and took her son, 3rd grader Shuma, off to P.S. 41 on Sixth Avenue and W. 11th Street.

DNAinfo was there to capture the joyful moment when Shuma found out he had a snow day.

"Everybody step aside, it's closed!" he shouted as he marched away from the school.

The storm had already dumped 10.6 inches of snow on Manhattan as of Friday morning, according to the National Weather Service.  More snow was expected throughout the day.

Alternate side parking rules also have been suspended because of the storm.

A Brooklyn man was killed on Thursday in Central Park by a falling tree branch knocked loose by the storm.

Most of the boroughs colleges and universities cancelled classes on Friday because of the storm.

 

A list of closed public schools:

47 The American Sign Language and English Secondary School (M047)

A. Philip Randolph Campus High School (M540)

Academy for Social Action: A College Board School (M367)

Academy of Collaborative Education (M344)

Academy of Environmental Science Secondary High School (M635)

Amber Charter School (M705)

Amistad Dual Language School (M311)

Art and Design High School (M630)

Ballet Tech, NYC Public School for Dance (M442)

Bard High School Early College (M696)

Baruch College Campus High School (M411)

BATTERY PARK CITY SCHOOL (M276)

Bayard Rustin Educational Complex (M440)

Beacon High School (M479)

Bread & Roses Integrated Arts High School (M685)

BUSINESS OF SPORTS SCHOOL (M393)

Cascades High School (M650)

Central Park East High School (M555)

Central Park East I (M497)

Central Park East II (M964)

Chelsea Career and Technical Education High School (M615)

Choir Academy of Harlem (M469)

City College Academy of the Arts (M293)

Coalition School for Social Change (M409)

Collaborative Academy of Science, Technology, & Language-Arts Education (M345)

Columbia Secondary School (M362)

Community Action School - MS 258 (M258)

Community Health Academy of the Heights (M346)

School's High School Enrollment Directory Page Democracy Prep Charter School (M350)

DREAM Charter School (M382)

Earth School (M364)

East Side Community School (M450)

East Side Middle School (M114)

Edward A. Reynolds West Side High School (M505)

Eleanor Roosevelt High School (M416)

Ella Baker School (M225)

EMMA LAZARUS HIGH SCHOOL (M394)

ESPERANZA PREPARATORY ACADEMY (M372)

Essex Street Academy (M294)

Facing History School, The (M303)

Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (M485)

Food and Finance High School (M288)

Frederick Douglass Academy (M499)

Frederick Douglass Academy II Secondary School (M860)

Future Leaders Institute Charter School (M861)

Girls Preparatory Charter School of New York (M330)

Global Neighborhood Secondary School (M381)

GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY PREPARATORY (M406)

Gramercy Arts High School (M374)

Greenwich Village (M896)

Gregorio Luperon High School for Science and Mathematics (M552)

Hamilton Heights School (M368)

Harbor Heights (M349)

Harbor Sciences and Arts Charter School (M704)

Harlem Children's Zone/Promise Academy Charter School (M284)

Harlem Children's Zone/Promise Academy II (M341)

Harlem Day Charter School (M708)

Harlem Link Charter School (M329)

Harlem Renaissance High School (M285)

Harlem Success Academy 1 Charter School (M351)

Harlem Success Academy 2 Charter School (M384)

Harlem Success Academy 3 Charter School (M385)

Harlem Success Academy 4 Charter School (M386)

 

Harlem Village Academy Charter School (M709)

Harvey Milk High School (M586)

Henry Street School for International Studies (M292)

Heritage School, The (M680)

High School for Arts, Imagination and Inquiry (M299)

High School for Dual Language and Asian Studies (M545)

High School for Environmental Studies (M400)

High School for Excellence and Innovation (M423)

High School for Health Careers and Sciences (M468)

High School for Health Professions and Human Services (M420)

High School for International Business and Finance (M462)

High School for Law and Public Service (M467)

High School for Law, Advocacy and Community Justice (M492)

High School for Mathematics, Science and Engineering at City College (M692)

High School for Media and Communications (M463)

High School M560 - City As School (M560)

High School of Arts and Technology (M494)

High School of Economics and Finance (M489)

High School of Graphic Communication Arts (M625)

High School of Hospitality Management (M296)

Humanities Preparatory Academy (M605)

I.S. 195 Roberto Clemente (M195)

I.S. 218 Salome Urena (M218)

I.S. 289 (M289)

I.S. 528 Bea Fuller Rodgers School (M528)

I.S. M286 Renaissance Military Leadership Academy (M286)

Independence High School (M544)

Innovation Diploma Plus (M404)

Institute for Collaborative Education (M407)

Isaac Newton Middle School for Math & Science (M825)

J.H.S. 013 Jackie Robinson (M013)

J.H.S. 052 Inwood (M052)

J.H.S. 054 Booker T. Washington (M054)

J.H.S. 104 Simon Baruch (M104)

J.H.S. 143 Eleanor Roosevelt (M143)

J.H.S. 167 Robert F. Wagner (M167)

J.H.S. M044 William J. O'Shea (M044)

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School (M529)

James Baldwin School, The: A School for Expeditionary Learning (M313)

James Weldon Johnson (M057)

John V. Lindsay Wildcat Academy Charter School (M707)

Kappa II (M317)

KAPPA IV (M302)

Kipp Infinity Charter School (M336)

KIPP S.T.A.R. College Preparatory (M726)

Landmark High School (M419)

Leadership and Public Service High School (M425)

Leadership Village Academy Charter School (M335)

Legacy School for Integrated Studies (M429)

Liberty High School Academy for Newcomers (M550)

Life Sciences Secondary School (M655)

Louis D. Brandeis High School (M470)

Lower East Side Preparatory High School (M515)

Lower Manhattan Arts Academy (M308)

M.S. 131 (M131)

M.S. 224 Manhattan East School for Arts & Academics (M224)

M.S. 243 Center School (M243)

M.S. 250 West Side Collaborative Middle School (M250)

M.S. 255 Salk School of Science (M255)

M.S. 256 Academic & Athletic Excellence (M256)

M.S. 260 Clinton School Writers & Artists (M260)

M.S. 319 - Maria Teresa (M319)

M.S. 321 - Minerva (M321)

M.S. 324 - Patria Mirabal (M324)

M.S. 326 - Writers Today & Leaders Tomorrow (M326)

M.S. 328 - Manhattan Middle School for Scientific Inquiry (M328)

M.S. 45/S.T.A.R.S. Prep Academy (M045)

M.S. M245 The Computer School (M245)

M.S. M246 Crossroads School (M246)

M.S. M247 Dual Language Middle School (M247)

Manhattan / Hunter Science High School (M541)

Manhattan Bridges High School (M542)

Manhattan Business Academy (M392)

Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics (M435)

Manhattan Charter School (M320)

Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School (M575)

Manhattan International High School (M459)

Manhattan Theatre Lab High School (M283)

Manhattan Village Academy (M439)

Marta Valle High School (M509)

Middle School 322 (M322)

Millennium High School (M418)

Mosaic Preparatory Academy (M375)

Mott Hall High School (M304)

Mott Hall II (M862)

Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers (M520)

Muscota (M314)

N.Y.C. Lab School for Collaborative Studies (M412)

N.Y.C. Museum School (M414)

Neighborhood School (M363)

New Design High School (M543)

New Explorations into Science, Technology and Math High School (M539)

New Heights Academy Charter School (M353)

New York City Center for Autism Charter School (M337)

New York City Lab Middle School for Collaborative Studies (M312)

Norman Thomas High School (M620)

NYC iSchool (M376)

P.S. 001 Alfred E. Smith (M001)

P.S. 002 Meyer London (M002)

P.S. 003 Charrette School (M003)

P.S. 004 Duke Ellington (M004)

P.S. 005 Ellen Lurie (M005)

P.S. 006 Lillie D. Blake (M006)

P.S. 007 Samuel Stern (M007)

P.S. 008 Luis Belliard (M008)

P.S. 009 Sarah Anderson (M009)

P.S. 011 William T. Harris (M011)

P.S. 015 Roberto Clemente (M015)

P.S. 018 Park Terrace (M018)

P.S. 019 Asher Levy (M019)

P.S. 020 Anna Silver (M020)

P.S. 028 Wright Brothers (M028)

P.S. 030 Hernandez/Hughes (M030)

P.S. 033 Chelsea Prep (M033)

P.S. 034 Franklin D. Roosevelt (M034)

P.S. 036 Margaret Douglas (M036)

P.S. 040 Augustus Saint-Gaudens (M040)

P.S. 041 Greenwich Village (M041)

P.S. 042 Benjamin Altman (M042)

P.S. 046 Arthur Tappan (M046)

P.S. 048 P.O. Michael J. Buczek (M048)

P.S. 050 Vito Marcantonio (M050)

P.S. 051 Elias Howe (M051)

P.S. 059 Beekman Hill International (M059)

P.S. 063 William McKinley (M063)

P.S. 064 Robert Simon (M064)

P.S. 072 (M072)

P.S. 075 Emily Dickinson (M075)

P.S. 076 A. Philip Randolph (M076)

P.S. 083 Luis Munoz Rivera (M083)

P.S. 084 Lillian Weber (M084)

P.S. 087 William Sherman (M087)

P.S. 092 Mary McLeod Bethune (M092)

P.S. 096 Joseph Lanzetta (M096)

P.S. 098 Shorac Kappock (M098)

P.S. 101 Andrew Draper (M101)

P.S. 102 Jacques Cartier (M102)

P.S. 108 Assemblyman Angelo Del Toro Educational Complex (M108)

P.S. 110 Florence Nightingale (M110)

P.S. 111 Adolph S. Ochs (M111)

P.S. 112 Jose Celso Barbosa (M112)

P.S. 115 Alexander Humboldt (M115)

P.S. 116 Mary Lindley Murray (M116)

P.S. 123 Mahalia Jackson (M123)

P.S. 124 Yung Wing (M124)

P.S. 125 Ralph Bunche (M125)

P.S. 126 Jacob August Riis (M126)

P.S. 128 Audubon (M128)

P.S. 129 John H. Finley (M129)

P.S. 130 Hernando De Soto (M130)

P.S. 132 Juan Pablo Duarte (M132)

P.S. 133 Fred R Moore (M133)

P.S. 134 Henrietta Szold (M134)

P.S. 137 John L. Bernstein (M137)

P.S. 140 Nathan Straus (M140)

P.S. 142 Amalia Castro (M142)

P.S. 145, The Bloomingdale School (M145)

P.S. 146 Ann M. Short (M146)

P.S. 149 Sojourner Truth (M149)

P.S. 150 (M150)

P.S. 152 Dyckman Valley (M152)

P.S. 153 Adam Clayton Powell (M153)

P.S. 154 Harriet Tubman (M154)

P.S. 155 William Paca (M155)

P.S. 158 Bayard Taylor (M158)

P.S. 161 Pedro Albizu Campos (M161)

P.S. 163 Alfred E. Smith (M163)

P.S. 165 Robert E. Simon (M165)

P.S. 166 The Richard Rodgers School of The Arts and Technology (M166)

P.S. 171 Patrick Henry (M171)

P.S. 173 (M173)

P.S. 175 Henry H Garnet (M175)

P.S. 180 Hugo Newman (M180)

P.S. 183 Robert L. Stevenson (M183)

P.S. 184m Shuang Wen (M184)

P.S. 185 John M. Langston (M185)

P.S. 187 Hudson Cliffs (M187)

P.S. 188 The Island School (M188)

P.S. 189 (M189)

P.S. 191 Amsterdam (M191)

P.S. 192 Jacob H. Schiff (M192)

P.S. 194 Countee Cullen (M194)

P.S. 197 John B. Russwurm (M197)

P.S. 198 Isador E. Ida Straus (M198)

P.S. 199 Jessie Isador Straus (M199)

P.S. 200- The James Mccune Smith School (M200)

P.S. 206 Jose Celso Barbosa (M206)

P.S. 208 Alain L. Locke (M208)

P.S. 212 Midtown West (M212)

P.S. 234 Independence School (M234)

P.S. 241 Family Academy (M241)

P.S. 290 Manhattan New School (M290)

P.S. 325 (M325)

P.S. 333 Manhattan School for Children (M333)

P.S. 38 Roberto Clemente (M038)

P.S. 77 Lower Lab School (M077)

P.S. 89 (M089)

P.S. M242 - Gwendolyn Powell Brown Computer School (M242)

P.S./I.S. 210 - Twenty-first Century Academy for Community Leadership (M210)

P.S./I.S. 217 Roosevelt Island (M217)

Pace High School (M298)

Park East High School (M495)

Paula Hedbavny School (M278)

Professional Performing Arts High School (M408)

Professor Juan Bosch Public School (M178)

Quest to Learn (M422)

Renaissance School of the Arts (M377)

Repertory Company High School for Theatre Arts (M531)

Richard R. Green High School of Teaching (M580)

River East Elementary (M037)

Ross Global Academy Charter School (M355)

Satellite Academy High School (M570)

School for Cooperative Technical Education (M645)

School for Global Leaders (M378)

School for the Physical City High School (M690)

School of the Future High School (M413)

Sisulu-Walker Charter School (M702)

Special Music School (M859)

SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL (M397)

St. HOPE Leadership Academy Charter School (M388)

Stuyvesant High School (M475)

Tag Young Scholars (M012)

Talent Unlimited High School (M519)

Technology, Arts, and Sciences Studio (M301)

The 47 American Sign Language & English Lower School (M347)

The Anderson School (M334)

The Bilingual Bicultural School (M182)

The Children's Workshop School (M361)

The East Village Community School (M315)

The Equity Project Charter School (TEP) (M430)

THE GLOBAL LEARNING COLLABORATIVE (M403)

THE HIGH SCHOOL FOR LANGUAGE AND DIPLOMACY (M399)

The High School of Fashion Industries (M600)

The Mott Hall School (M223)

The Opportunity Charter School (M279)

THE URBAN ASSEMBLY INSTITUTE FOR NEW TECHNOLOGIES (M410)

THE URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR GREEN CAREERS (M402)

Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning and Social Change (M670)

Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School (M318)

Tito Puente Education Complex (M117)

Tompkins Square Middle School (M839)

Unity Center for Urban Technologies (M500)

University Neighborhood High School (M448)

University Neighborhood Middle School (M332)

Urban Academy Laboratory High School (M565)

Urban Assembly Academy of Government and Law, The (M305)

Urban Assembly School for Media Studies, The (M307)

Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts (M369)

Urban Assembly School of Business for Young Women, the (M316)

Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction, The (M300)

Urban Peace Academy (M695)

School's accountability report Vanguard High School (M449)

Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing & Visual Arts (M415)

Washington Heights Academy (M366)

Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School (M348)

Washington Irving High School (M460)

WEST PREP ACADEMY (M421)

Yorkville Community School (M151)

Young Women's Leadership School (M610)

 

A list of closed colleges & universities:

Columbia University

New York University

The New School

Teachers College

Fordham University - Lincoln Center campus

Baruch College

Borough of Manhattan Community College

Hunter College

City College

CUNY Graduate Center

CUNY School of Law

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Pace University