Brooklyn schools receiving funding to improve street safety
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries presented the check Friday morning at P.S. 156-Waverly. The other two schools that will be benefiting from the funds are P.S. 189 and P.S. 327.
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"Many of our students and families and our staff travel to school and they cross major intersections," Naiyma Moore, principal at P.S. 156 explained.
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries presented the check Friday morning at P.S. 156-Waverly. The other two schools that will be benefiting from the funds are P.S. 189 and P.S. 327.
“They were selected for DOT's Safe Route To Schools because of recent crash incidents in the vicinity," Ydanis Rodriguez, the Commissioner of NYC DOT, said.
The funds will go to reconstructing existing sidewalks and adding new sidewalks as well as other installations like traffic signals, pedestrian ramps, bus pads utility work and signal timing modifications.
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