Ravi Shenoy with Shenoy Engineering applied in May to provide gas connections from the basement to the 6th floor science lab, according to Department of Buildings records. 'It's heart breaking,' said Ramos, whose 14-year-old daughter is set to start her sophomore at the school. 'You know how long they worked for this? They're brand new.'

Wanda Ramos, 45, who works in the building, said they have been working on the labs for about two years. 'They’re not going to let anybody in the building unless they decide that it’s safe.'įive rooms on the 7th floor of the building were also structurally damaged, Dinowitz added, and large pieces of the exterior wall on 5th, 6th and 7th floors were either damaged or destroyed. 'They’re going to be relocated, and it’s possible that some if not all of the schools could be relocated once the school year starts,' Dinowitz said. New York State Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz told DNAinfo New York that the New Visions Charter High School for Advanced Math and Science and New Visions Charter High School for Advanced Humanities would need to be placed in a new building. There are eight schools in the building and more than 4,000 students attend classes at the school.ĭe Blasio told 1010 WINS Friday afternoon that the school woul not be open in time for the beginning of the school year, but that each and every student would be placed in a nearby school. It just sounded like thunder coming from next door.' The restaurant was shaking for a second or two,' Jimenez said. 'It was scary. Oscar Jimenez, 40, was working at Tibbett Diner nearby when the blast happened. Three were taken to area hospitals with serious burn injuries, the FDNY spokesman said.Īll of the workers were taken to Jacobi Hospital, the spokesman said. Seven workers from Positive Electrical Associates of Long Island City were involved in the incident, sources said. 'And what we see here at JFK High is a really shocking scene of the sixth floor having experienced a tremendous explosion.' 'Very troubling evening for residents here in Marble Hill - they felt a blast, they felt a building shake,' Mayor Bill de Blasio said during a press conference outside the building Thursday night. The sixth floor and severely damaged three classrooms at the high school, located located at 99 Terrace View Ave., according to sources and the FDNY. The explosion was sparked when one of the workers lit a match to check that gas was going through the line, the mayor said.

The blast occurred a little after 8 p.m., destroying parts of the fourth, fifth and sixth floors of the building, sources said. Kennedy High School were hurt - one seriously - in a gas explosion Thursday night, according to officials. Crown Heights, Prospect Heights & Prospect-Lefferts GardensīRONX - Three workers building a new science lab at Marble Hill's John F.Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens & Red Hook.

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