MIDDLE VILLAGE — Officials broke ground last week on a 26,000-square-foot addition to a school in one of the most overcrowded districts in the city.
P.S/I.S. 49, at 63-60 80th St. in Middle Village, will get a three-story addition with more than a dozen new classrooms, a resource room and larger cafeteria, officials said.
The school, which is overcapacity, currently has more than 1,100 students from kindergarten through eighth grades, officials said. It's in District 24, one of the most overcrowded in the city.
City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley praised the "sorely needed" new space.
"New classrooms, including ones with computer and science labs will more give our local students the resources they need to build a strong foundation," she said.
The new building is designed by the architectural firm of John Ciardullo P.C., and built by E.W. Howell.