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AUGUST 24, 2009




CHARAS/El Bohio seeks tenants again, and Greenwich Village middle schoolers may have a long walk to school next year.

The controversial CHARAS/El Bohio building is seeking tenants again. Helmsley-Spear has listed the landmarked former P.S. 64 building on 9th street near Avenue B as "undergoing a complete renovation." The building's current owner, Gregg Singer–who bought the red brick building from the city in 1998 for $3.15 million¬–originally had plans to redevelop the property as a "megadorm" project. Prior to Singer's purchase, the building had been used as the CHARAS/El Bohio community and cultural center. According to Helmsley-Spear, Singer will remain an owner but is open to creating a "building within a building”.

Two floors in the big Standard Oil skyscraper at 26 Broadway near Battery Park are being considered by the Department of Education for a new Greenwich Village Middle School for the 2010 school year. The Department's consideration comes with the recent residential transformation of much of Lower Manhattan–and its attendant need to find school space to accommodate new residents' children. Parents in the existing, over-capacity Greenwich Village Middle School–the former PS 3 on Hudson Street–have been hoping to find other options a little closer to home.