NEW YORK (AP/WCBS 880) -- Two more New York City public schools are closing amid concerns about swine flu, and students will stay away longer than planned from a school that lost an assistant principal to the disease.
The city Health Department announced Wednesday that P.S. 242 and P.S. 130 will close Thursday for up to five school days because of an unusually high amount of flu-like sickness. Both are in Queens. The P.S 130 building also houses about 70 students from P.S 993.
Queens' I.S. 238 will reopen to students Tuesday, rather than Friday, as initially scheduled. Teachers still will return Friday.
I.S. 238 assistant principal Mitchell Wiener died of swine flu Sunday. His funeral was held Wednesday.
TOTAL SCHOOLS: 39 in our Area
- NYC: 26 Schools
- NJ: 2 Schools
- LI: 11 Schools
LIST OF CLOSED NYC AREA SCHOOLS
Queens
Queens
1) I.S. 238 in Hollis (Reopens Friday, May 22. NOTE: This is where Asst. Principal Weiner worked)
2) P.S. 16 in Corona (Reopens Friday, May 22)
3) P255 in Corona (Reopens Friday, May 22)
4) I.S. 5 in Elmhurst (Reopens Friday, May 22 - The Walter Crowley Intermediate)
5) J.H.S. 74 in Bayside (Reopens Tuesday, May 26)
6) P.S. 107 in Flushing (Reopens Tuesday, May 26)
7) M.S. 158Q in Bayside (Reopens Tuesday, May 26 - The Marie Curie School)
8) I.S. 25 in Flushing (Reopens Tuesday, May 26 - Adrien Block School)
9) World Journalism Preparatory in Flushing (Reopens Tuesday, May 26) 10) P.S. 233 in Flushing (Reopens Tuesday, May 26)
11) Holy Family School in Flushing (Reopens Tuesday, May 26)
12) P.S. 32 in Flushing (Reopening date to be determined - The State Street School)
13) P.S. 19 in Corona (Reopening date to be determined -The Marino Jeantet School)
14) Our Lady of Lourdes in Queens Village (Reopening date to be determined)
15) P.S. 209 in Whitestone (Reopening date to be determined)
16) P9 in Whitestone (Reopening date to be determined - this is a school for students with disabilities.)
17) St. Joseph's in Astoria (Reopening date to be determined - Brooklyn Diocese run school)
18) P.S. 35 (Nathaniel Woodhull, 615 students), in Hollis (closed starting Wednesday, May 20).
19) Merrick Academy Charter School (495 students), in Jamaica (closed starting Wednesday, May 20).
20) Saint Demetrios School in Astoria (closed for precautionary cases, reopening either Friday May 22 or Tuesday May 26th)
Bronx
21) Horace Mann School in Riverdale (Reopens Tuesday, May 26)
22) South Bronx Charter School in Mott Haven (Officially closes Wed, May 20th, closed until May, 26th)
Brooklyn
23) I.S. 318 in Williamsburg (Reopens Tuesday, May 26)
Manhattan
24) St. David's in Upper East Side (Reopens Thursday, May 21 - Catholic school, but not affiliated with Archdiocese)
25) The Child Legacy School on Roosevelt Island (Reopening date to be determined)
26) PS 130 in Chinatown,
Long Island
27) Memorial Junior High School (Valley Stream) - Reopens May 26)
28 - 37) Levittown School District - 10 schools, (Reopens May 26)
New Jersey
38) Robert Waters School (Union City - Reopens, May 26)
39) Fort Lee - School #3
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