Why Did Andrew Gounardes Wait So Long to Look at Safety at the 86th Street School Site?
Senator Andrew Gounardes shared the picture above and wrote on social media today that he looked at the safety concerns around the new school on 86th Street with the Department of Transportation today.
This location was named a location for a school in February 2019 – why did it Senator Gounardes so long to look at the safety of the area? (Source)
In 2019, the local paper printed about the deal behind the school. (Source) When people asked on social media about the property, Councilman Brannan said there was no deal. Brannan also said a hotel was not being built next to the school. (See here) Avid Hotel is being built there. (See here)
This January, some of the details of that property came out in a publication outside of our district. (Source) At that point, we should have seen Senator Gounardes and experienced members of CB 10 take action for the community.
Senator Gounardes should have investigated the school situation when he was aware that corruption happened. His friendship with Justin Brannan interferes with his position to speak up for our community.
A second school property on 5th Avenue was owned by the owner of Nathans. here was absolutely no reason that deal should have continued.
I wrote to Community Board 10 and they were annoyed that I asked them about it. Some people don’t think the community has the right to question things when corruption happens in the community.
We should have seen CB 10 address the issues in the article because the decision where a school was being placed in our community should not have been made by a man, who sent his child to private school. How do we know that? On June 5th, Andrew Gounardes posted a picture of himself with his friend and his child at her school on Twitter.
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Hugs,
marlene
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