紐約市已準備好在911恐怖攻擊世貿大樓事件現場附近發展最快速的住宅區，建造第一所綠色學校。市政府官員11月13日表示，這所環境永續的學校將會建築在曼哈頓下城巴特里公園區（Battery Park City）一塊由州政府提供的土地上。
州政府無償提供來建這所新學校的用地，是巴特里公園區最後一塊尚未使用的建築用地，將由所有權人巴特里公園區管理單位授權使用。
紐約州長思必策（Eliot Spitzer）及紐約市長彭博（Michael Bloomberg）在宣布這所新的綠色學校時表示，曼哈頓下城因為居民人口蓬勃發展，所以非常需要額外的學校用地。
思必策指出：「曼哈頓下城已經成為最重要的住宅區，使得公立學校的發展勢在必行。這塊土地捐出來建設一座小學及中學合併學校，可以減輕曼哈頓下城學校教室過渡擁擠的狀況，同時可以透過提供學生健康且永續利用的環境來改善整體教育狀況」。
這個可容納950個學生席的學校將編制有幼兒園到8年級，並且可容納100個特殊教育的學生。
彭博表示：「這個新的建設是本市用131億美元解決教室過於擁擠問題，促進學校現代化的計畫之一，它也會是第一個達成我們利用節能建築法承諾的學校，這種建築法會強化隔熱效果，並會採用自然光源。不僅學生會有最好的學習設施，他們也能在符合環保要求的環境中學習。」
New York City is poised to build its first green school near the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, now the fastest growing residential neighborhood in New York.
The environmentally sustainable school will be constructed in the Battery Park City area of Lower Manhattan on land donated by the state, officials said Tuesday.
The state is providing the last vacant building site in Battery Park City at no cost to the city to begin building the new school. The land will be made available through the Battery Park City Authority, which owns the site.
Announcing the new green school, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and Mayor Michael Bloomberg said a booming residential population in Lower Manhattan has created a high need for additional school space in the area.
"Lower Manhattan has become a premier residential destination, and that trend has also placed a toll on its public schools," said Governor Spitzer.
The donation of this land for a new elementary-middle school will ease overcrowding in Lower Manhattan classrooms and improve overall education conditions by providing students with a healthy sustainable environment where they learn and thrive."
The new 950 seat school will serve pre-kindergarten through the eighth grades, and will include 100 seats for special education students.
Mayor Bloomberg said, "This new facility, part of our $13.1 billion capital plan to reduce classroom overcrowding and to modernize our schools, will also be the first green school building in keeping with our commitment to incorporate energy saving measures such as increased insulation and the use of natural light.
"Not only will the students have a state-of-the-art learning facility, but they will also be learning in environmentally friendly surroundings," the mayor said.
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