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November 18, 2005

Adjustments made to East Side school project

Downtown Express
by Ronda Kaysen

Bruce Ratner and local leaders have secured an important compromise for a new Downtown Manhattan elementary school. The Beekman St. school, designed by Frank Gehry and "partially funded with $20 [million] from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, is the most expensive school ever built by the Department of Education."

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Posted by lumi at November 18, 2005 7:15 AM