Hebrew Academy Outbid on Woodmere Property

The Hebrew Academy of Long Beach's (HALB) bid for a former school property in Woodmere came in second to Mount Sinai Hospital recently.

The Manhattan-based hospital outbid all other interested parties by nearly $3 million for the Number Six School property in Woodmere, the Nassau Herald reports.

The next highest bids for Number Six School — at the corner of Peninsula Boulevard and Branch Boulevard — are from HALB for $9.5 million, and the JCC of the Greater Five Towns, for $9.1 million. Another bid comes from an unnamed developer. Earlier this year, HALB, a yeshiva serving children in grades one through eight at 530 W. Broadway, had bid $9.2 million on the property.

Mount Sinai Hospital, along with Bronx-based developer Simone Development Companies, bid more than $12 million for the former elementary school, a Lawrence school official confirmed to the newspaper. The offer includes about $600,000 for building cleanup. The property could potentially be used as a multi-doctor practice. In 2007, the Lawrence School District sold the Number One School for $29.1 million.

If the Lawrence Board of Education accepts Mount Sinai’s bid, it would be place on a public referendum for a vote. However, the Town of Hempstead would have to grant the hospital and developer several variances if it were to build a practice there.

HALB has two high schools in the Five Towns:David Renov Stahler High School for Boys in Woodmere and Stella Kay Abraham High School for Girls in Hewlett Bay Park.

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