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Protect Our Children’s Health, Protect Our Community: 
MOVE OUR KIDS TO A SAFE LOCATION NOW!

The City is refusing to temporarily relocate our children during the 3 years of construction to build a new P.S. 51 building and 9 other mid-rise and high-rise luxury buildings spanning the entire city block.  Our kids will be overwhelmed in this construction zone – and their health, safety, and quality of education will be in danger. 
By fast-tracking luxury development in Hell’s Kitchen, the City and Speaker Quinn are putting the interests of big developers before the health and safety of our kids at P.S. 51.

•    The City has spent years and hundreds of thousands of dollars planning for luxury high-rises on the City-owned West 44th St. city block, but won’t spend one penny to guarantee the health, safety or instructional quality of P.S. 51 kids and staff. 

•    The City has temporarily relocated other schools – for overcrowding, to speed up construction time, and “to avoid disruptive effects that construction could have on students.”  The City refuses to do the same for P.S. 51. 

•    The City and Speaker Quinn say there’s no space to move P.S. 51, but in 4 short weeks, the community identified 3 possible nearby locations.  What has the City been doing? Nothing.

•    The City and Speaker Quinn say they’re looking for space to build new schools in our community.  Meanwhile, the City is selling the old P.S. 51 building to Gotham to convert into luxury lofts!

The City is selling off our community at the expense of our kids’ health and safety!

How can our teachers instruct & kids learn with demolition, rock-splitting & steel beam clanging for half their grade school years?


Join us to demand the City and Christine Quinn:

1.    Prioritize the health and safety of our kids and the protection of the Hell's Kitchen working class community; not more luxury high-rise development.
2.    Delay all construction until the City has a safe and renovated temporary location for P.S. 51 in Hell’s Kitchen.
3.    Relocate the entire P.S. 51 school community to the temporary location by Sept 2011.
4.    Guarantee that all construction on the city block is finished by the scheduled completion date of September 2013.
5.    Guarantee the P.S. 51 school community moves together into the new school building.
6.    Ensure that P.S. 51 will continue to serve Hell’s Kitchen’s working-class families.
   
LET’S BUILD OUR NEW SCHOOL WITHOUT JEOPARDIZING THE SAFETY OF OUR KIDS!

For more information call (212) 358-0295 or visit our blog at:
http:// fightfor51.blogspot.com