The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-13
WILSEY TELLS PLAN
FOR NEW SCHOOLS
Say Sixteen Buildings and IL
Additions Are Slated for
This Year.
TOTAL COST S8,25O,O00
High Prices Delay Start Of
.WOrk-Undisturbed by
Craig's Public Threat.
TOTAL COST S8,25O,OOO

The challenge OF Comptroller Craig
that unless the Board OF Education
does something in the way of school
building something will happen to the
Board Of Education" which was issued
at meeting Of taxpayers interested in
getting a new high school for Washing
ton Heights has not gone unnoticed.
Frank d. wilsey. a Commissioner for
Manhattan. who is in charge of the
building programme, said he was not
disturbed by Mr.. Craig's threat. He said
yesterday that the board has been work.
ing out its schedule of buildings and
that the only factor that is hampering
rapid construction is the high cost OF
materials and the state of the labor
market.
He said that sixteen new buildings
and twelve additions are planned for the
current year. Sites are being acquired
for new Julia Richman and Washington
Heights high schools. In addition there
will be put up training school for
teachers. The total expenditures will be
SS,250,oo0.
Mitchell Board Left S11,S30,3 800.
Mr. Wilsey said that the previous
Board of Education, that of Mayor
Mitchers term, had left unexpended a
fund OF s11.s39.396 in its school con-
| struction account. During the war the
new board took up the problem of re-
lieving the congested conditions in the
schools. which the part time plan of
Or. Ettnger had only partially solved.
AS soon as the Government raised the
ban on public building operations steps
were taken promptly to let contracts,
Mr.. Wilsey stated. and now the pro-
gramme will be pushed as rapidly as
the building market will absorb the
contracts.
To date the following buildings have
been bid on: p. S. 81, The Bronx, a new
building at lSlst street and Crotona
| avenue. and p. s. 6, The Bronx, an adj
dition of twenty-five rooms. at fremont
and Fyse avenues; P. S. 90. Queens, a
new building has been advertised, and,
building at p. S. 20, Brooklyn, will be-
| resumed az soon as materials can b,
| obtained. The contract for this buildint
| was let last June.
| The building programme which Mr..
Wilsey expects to see fulfilled before the
end OF the year is as follows:
Brooklyn, +. S. so. addition, "a rooms
West Seventeenth street: Brooklyn, L. S
| l5S, addition, rooms, Belmont avenue
and Ashford street: Brooklyn, i. S 1872
new. AZ rooms. Wyona and Dumont ave-
| nues; Brooklyn, L. S. 100, addition. "a
rooms. West Third street: Queens, +. s
8. new, II rooms and auditorium Meteor
street and Forest Hills Brooklyn, =. S.
20. new, 40 rooms, North Fifth street
and briggs avenue.
Addition to l.. =. IA.
Brooklyn. p. s. IA. addition. twenty.
four rooms, Howard street and ST.
Marks avenue; Bronx. T.. 5. 43. addition
twelve rooms. Brown place and 13sth
street; Richmond. T. S. II, new, twelve
oons. Curtis avenue and Morris Park
brooklyn p. S. %. fourteen rooms, Still
vel! avenue Manhattan, +. s 100 new.
fo'ty-cight rooms. Baxter and Hester
sire cts: Bronx, i. s. So new, forty
eight rooms. Boston road and Charlotte
street. Manhattan, =. s SO, addition
five stories. 109th street east of Third
avenue; Brooklyn. p :. 20. addition
twenty-five rooms, Rockaway avenue
and sumter street Bronx, new (yet un-
nufnbered), thirty-siN rooms, Bathgate
avenue and 1921 street; Brooklyn, p S
~. new, forty-uine rooms Henry and
Harrison streets Bronx, p 5. So, TO
purchase annex of seventeen rooms and
auditorium, Washington avenue near
l'6th street: Queens. Bryant High
School, addition, Wilbur avenue ! ,ong
Island City: Queens. Newtown High
School. new, Chicago avenue, EImhurst;
Richmond. Curtis High School. addition,
New Brighton, $. l.
Provision is also made Cor parental
school in Queens on Jamaica road 10
consist OF three cottages, a masters
Rouse an inflrmary, stable and grading.
The site OF Washington Heights
school, which also will provide for some
pupils from The Bronx. is still uude-
clded. though the plot at lSSth street
and Wadsworth avenue has been under
consideration. y training school for
teachers, now In L. S 81, which Is to
| be vacated, will be located at Hamilton
Place and l4lst street. Manhattan.
Order OF building Not Fixed.
| MIR. WilaaV said TINT tho n,,Iar