Yonkers to tear down abandoned school for housing project
Photo credit: News12 | P.S. 6 in Yonkers has sat empty for 30 years and is about to be knocked down. (Dec. 11, 2012)
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A long-abandoned public school off Ashburton Avenue in Yonkers will be demolished to make way for a new housing complex with 121 multifamily apartments, officials said Tuesday.
Public School No. 6 was closed 30 years ago and had fallen into disrepair until the city's Municipal Housing Authority partnered with Community Builders Inc. to redevelop the property as mixed-use residential housing.
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