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New York City will also provide $6 million in funding to rehabilitate the building, which for 34 years was home to a school for Black children during segregation.
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated (Former) Colored School No. 4 on West 17th Street in Chelsea an NYC landmark.
A New York City commission voted unanimously on Tuesday to preserve a school built for Black children during the era of slavery, by deeming the yellow-brick…
Children work on computers powered by solar panels at School No. 17. (Ed Ram for The Washington Post) I've been talking about clean, distributed energy as a national security strategy for years. See my interview with General Richard Zilmer conducted in 2019, below. Washington Post: Russian airstrikes on Ukraine’s power grid plunged many parts of…