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December 22, 2006
Nets go High Tech
Ratner throws in new home for elite Brooklyn HS in arena deal
NY Daily News
By Tanyanika Samuels
Brooklyn Tech High School may be getting new digs from an unlikely source - Nets arena developer Bruce Ratner.
The tentative plans for a new Brooklyn Tech - one of the city's elite high schools - emerged after Ratner's $4.2 billion Atlantic Yards project won crucial approval from a state panel Wednesday.
As part of the deal, which includes 16 soaring towers and the pro basketball arena, Ratner agreed in a statement to "work with the city, state and the United Federation of Teachers on the creation of a new, 21st century Brooklyn Tech High School, at a yet to be determined location in the borough."
Ratner spokeswoman Joyce Baumgarten said yesterday plans were "still in the formative stages."
NoLandGrab: Before the public wets its pants over this deal, note that this does NOT address the school overcrowding that will likely be caused by the addition of 15-18K new residents to Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
Also, Bruce Ratner has NOT SAID he will PAY for the new school.
Sheldon Silver struck a deal to get a public school built as part of Ratner's Beekman St. project, also designed by Frank Gehry. The taxpayers are now shelling out for the most expensive public school (per square foot) in New York's history in that deal.
Posted by lumi at December 22, 2006 6:15 AM