Cupcakes at the new Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on 86th Street. Photo by Avi.
January 5, 2012 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 38 Degrees.
News:
The Department of Education says that it will take a decade to get rid of all the PCBs in the city’s public schools. Numerous Upper West Side schools have PCBs. “At P.S. 199 on the Upper West Side, there were higher-than-average levels of PCBs, 600-1100 nanograms per cubic meter in the indoor air at the school. The EPA’s reference dose, the quantity of PCBs that a person can be exposed to daily over a lifetime with little appreciable damage or risk, is 200 to 300 nanograms per cubic meter.” (West Side Spirit)
Let’s cut the BS, and acknowledge that the real estate market was a mess for sellers in the fourth quarter. On the Upper West Side, Bloomberg reports that co-op resale prices fell 1% and condo resale prices fell 5%. (Malcolm Carter)
Who’s the best clutch high school basketball player in New York? Connor Huff of the Collegiate School on the Upper West Side. (NY Post)
Inside Schools evaluates new charter school Upper West Success Academy. (Inside Schools)
