HILLMAN AVENUE CONGESTION

Oye Vey!!!

This coming school year Hillman Avenue promises to be a madhouse.

Aside from the traffic caused by parents and school buses picking up and dropping off children at PS 95, there will now be THREE schools located on Hillman: PS 95, the Ampark Neighborhood School and a DOE school for autistic children located within the Workmans Circle building.

Jeffrey Dinowitz recently appeared at the local CB8 - Education Commitee mtg where he expressed his displeasure over the inevitable congestion and diesel fuel exhaust that will pollute the entire strip of Hillman Avenue. Dinowitz seemed annoyed that the DOE would allow three schools to exist on the same block. What Dinowitz did not mention was a PRIVATE PARTY is responsible for the formation of a third school for autistic students on the block: The Amalgamated Housing Corporation Herman Liebman Memorial Fund! The Amalgamated Housing Corporation Herman Liebman Memorial Fund is dependant upon the rental income it collects from the DOE for the use of the Workmans Circle building. In addition, the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center also rents out space to the DOE to supplement lack of classroom space at PS 95. Bob Gillman is the President of the VCJC. Surely Jeffrey Dinowitz knows that the VCJC and the Workmans Circle Building are locations in which several members of the Amalgamated community have a special interest. That DOE rental income sure comes in handy! What better way to hide your financial shenanigans! Form a non-profit organization and move money around!!!

Are we supposed to believe that congestion was never a concern before the atrocious AmPark School was built? And what did our local politicians think would happen when there were three schools planned for one city block? Jeffrey's mother is a volunteer at AmPark. Surely she was informed that another school would move into the Workmans Circle Building once AmPark moved into the new building?

The car and bus exhaust may slowly kill the people and the trees on Hillman Avenue, but, hey...at least the Herman Liebman Memorial Fund will stay in the green! In 2005, the fund reportedly received $165,000 a year from the DOE for the Workmans Circle Building. http://www.parkreservoir.coop/pkres092705.pdf

In 2008, the funding jumped dramatically to $232,735.00: http://www.faqs.org/tax-exempt/NY/Herman-Liebman-Memorial-Fund-Inc.html
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More information to come on the Herman Liebman Memorial Fund and The VCJC.