These NYC Schools’ Reopenings Will Be Delayed Over Ventilation

NEW YORK CITY — Teachers across New York City returned to their school buildings Tuesday to prepare for the return of in-person class. But instructors — and maybe students — at 10 city school buildings will have to wait a bit longer.

Those 10 buildings will be closed until their ventilation systems undergo repairs to meet coronavirus safety standards, Department of Education officials said.

“In the meantime, staff of these ten buildings will temporarily work from home, and we are identifying alternative space for learning if necessary if repairs are not completed by September 21st,” a DOE spokesperson said in a statement. “School leaders will work with Division of School Facilities staff to determine timelines for repairs and the impact temporary room closures might have on school programming.”

More than 1,400 school buildings underwent ventilation inspections in recent weeks as the city prepared to reopen school amid the coronavirus pandemic. Inspection teams looked at the air flow in every room in every building, officials said.

Schools largely passed the inspections, Mayor Bill de Blasio said last week. But it appears the 10 buildings announced Monday required more extensive repairs.

The buildings and schools are:

• K045 — PS 45 - Horace E. Greene School
• K842 — PS 45 - Horace E. Greene School (Annex Building)
• M490 (Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Campus) — The Maxine Greene HS for Imaginative Inquiry, Urban Assembly School for Media Studies, High School for Law, Advocacy and Community Justice, High School of Arts and Technology, Manhattan / Hunter Science High School, Special Music School
• M883 — P.S. M721 - Manhattan Occupational Training Center, Harvest Collegiate High School
• M894 —Leadership & Public Service High School
• Q222 — P.S. Q222 - Fire Fighter Christopher A. Santora School
• Q315 — The Riverview School, P.S. 110
• M340 — P.S. M094, Sixth Avenue Elementary School
• M620 (Norman Thomas High School building) — Success Academy Charter School - Harlem 1 , Success Academy Charter School - Harlem 3, Manhattan Academy for Arts & Language, Murray Hill Academy, Unity Center for Urban Technologies
• M833 — High School of Economics and Finance

Inspection reports from across the city will be published online Monday, officials said.