Editor's Note: This story first appeared in the latest issue of the Norwood News, out now.
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| Bronx New School, housed on Van Cortlandt Avenue East in an old lighting factory, will have a new home in a former Catholic school two miles away in Crotona. (Photo by Adi Talwar) |
At a tense public hearing last week, the Department of Education announced it will be moving Bedford Park elementary school PS 51, known as the Bronx New School, to a new building two miles south—the result of a discovery earlier this summer that its current site contains hazardous levels of a chemical toxin linked to cancer.
“I apologize to you. It will not happen again,” Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott told a crowd of seething parents at the Aug. 18 meeting at the Bronx High School of Science.
