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Brand new: Councilman Mark Treyger announced the
$2.5-million renovations at PS 188, which will revamp the
school’s science and art facilities.
Photo by Trey Pentecost
BY ROSE ADAMS
A Coney Island elementary
school wrecked by
Superstorm Sandy will
benefi t from new science
and art facilities as part
of a $2.5-million renovation
of the grade school,
Councilman Mark Treyger
(D–Coney Island) announced
Friday.
PS 188 Michael Berdy
School — located on Neptune
Avenue between W.
33rd and W. 35th streets —
is getting an engineering
and robotics lab, a visual
arts room, a library, and a
new science room as part
of capital project, which
authorities claim will be
completed by spring of
2020, Treyger said.
The council funds will
also pay for a new digital
media lab, build a music
room with sound-proof
walls, and upgrade the
auditorium, adding new
air conditioning, lighting,
and audio technology
to the theater. Among the
school’s most cutting-edge
additions is its new hydroponic
lab — a room where
students learn to grow
plants in tubes, and can
take their veggies home,
according to the lab’s creator.
“They will engage
in project-based systems
learning, and at
the same time enjoy delicious
fresh produce that
they can taste and take
home to share with their
families,” said Manuela
Zamora, the executive director
of NY Sun Works,
a non-profi t installing the
lab.
The pre-kindergar-
ten through fi fth-grade
school will begin offering
after-school music
and arts classes thanks to
another grant Treyger secured
for the school, and
Council will fund new inschool
counseling, health
and wellness services,
and therapeutic programming
— such as art
classes for kids who have
experienced trauma.
The renovations mark
a milestone for the elementary
school, which
sustained serious fl ooding
damage in the 2012 superstorm,
destroying the
school’s boiler and forcing
classes to temporarily relocate.
Councilman Treyger
criticized authorities
as slow to install a new
permanent boiler, making
students and teachers
sit through extreme temperatures
after a temporary
climate-control system
went haywire .
“It had a tremendous
impact on instruction
and learning,” Treyger
said, adding that a staffer
for former Mayor Michael
Bloomberg who visited
the school in 2013 could
hardly take the heat. “He
could barely last fi ve to 10
minutes in the school because
it was so hot.”
Authorities only installed
a functional boiler
only in 2017, the Brooklyn
Eagle reported .
Treyger and Speaker
Corey Johnson secured
funding for the upcoming
renovations from the
2020 City Council budget,
and Treyger obtained
a Council community
arts engagement grant to
fund the new after-school
classes.
On Sept. 20, educators
met the renovation’s announcement
with excitement.
“It was an amazing
day for us today at PS 188
in District 21,” said Antoinette
Tucci, the elementary
school’s principal.
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