[CPEO-BIF] Gateway to Health Sciences High School, Queens, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The kids in the morgue?
Queens school plan eyes medical center

by Patrick Arden
Metro New York
March 20, 2007

QUEENS. Just months after community concerns stalled a plan to build 
four new schools on polluted land in Mott Haven, the Bloomberg 
administration is facing an identical fight over the proposed 
construction of an 800-seat high school on the site of the former Queens 
County morgue in Briarwood.

The new $46 million Gateway to Health Sciences High School is scheduled 
to break ground this year along Goethals Avenue near 164th Street, on 
the campus of the Queens Hospital Center. One building slated for 
demolition currently serves as storage space for the hospital and FDNY, 
but prior to November 2005 it housed the medical examiner’s office. 
Toxins in the soil include toluene, a gasoline byproduct, and 
formaldehyde, which is used in embalming.

"The site is contaminated," said Robert Trabold, president of the 
community group Hillcrest Citizens for Neighborhood Preservation. "Over 
the years chemicals were dumped on the soil, and it's in the 
groundwater. We said, 'Well, what will parents think?'"

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For the entire article, see
http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/article/The_kids_in_the_morgue/7539.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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