Tag: schools

More than 50 people spoke at a public hearing on Wednesday night over a contentious plan to rezone several schools at the southern end of the Upper West Side.

School officials now say that there does not appear to have been a creep parked outside PS 87 offering kids candy to lure them into his black SUV.

The St. Agnes Boys High School on 87th street and West End Avenue has been sold for $50 million to Cary Tamarkin, a developer and architect

District 3, which includes the Upper West Side, is getting 18 new full-day pre-Kindergarten spots under the city's new expanded program. It's a small drop in the bucket but is likely to lead to larger additions. The 18 spots are at PS 185, a magnet school at 20 West 112th ...

Late last year, the city proposed moving Innovative Diploma Plus High School, a high school for older transfer students, out of the old Brandeis High School on 84th Street, and into a building in Washington Heights. The plan would make more room for charter elementary school Upper West Success Academy, ...

Parents and staff members at the Joan of Arc schools complex on 93rd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues say that a gang is intimidating and robbing students at the school. Two students were mugged for their cell phones in December, and people at the school suspect that the gang ...

The New York Times has a somewhat shocking article in this weekend's paper: it turns out that the PTA at PS 87 on West 78th Street raised more than $1.5 million for the school this year. Other local schools also raised huge sums: from $500,000+ at PS 199 to more ...

April 16, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 87 Degrees.

Porsafillo Pre, a preschool housed in an IM Pei building on a "leafy corner of the Upper West Side," has so many applicants -- 12,000 for 32 spots -- that it has resorted to extreme measures to weed through them. DNA tests! Or so reported NPR this weekend. The school ...

School overcrowding has become a persistent problem on the Upper West Side as the city has approved large developments in the neighborhood, but has been slow to add classroom seats to keep up with the growing population. Now a group of parents and local leaders is calling on the city ...

West Side Rag columnist Richard Kriheli is living in a one-bedroom apartment with his wife and son, but he's looking to upgrade to a two-bedroom so he can live like a, you know, human being.

September 6, 2011 Weather: Rain, High of 65 Degrees. Notices: The Riverside Park Fund is looking for people to volunteer at the 9th Annual West Side County Fair on Saturday. "Over 20 volunteers needed from 12-6pm to help with the games booths, crowd control at the animal area, and more ...