Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein have announced that 23 new school buildings with more than 13,000 seats will open at the start of the 2009-10 school year. This new construction, along with the 18 new buildings that opened last year, represents the most-ever new classroom seats to come on line in a two-year period since the School Construction Authority was created in 1988.
The new buildings include the newly-constructed P.S. 65 located in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn and were funded through the $13.1 billion 2005-2009 Capital Plan, the largest school construction effort in the city’s history earning the SCA the title of New York Construction magazine’s “Owner of the Year” for 2009.