What’s going on with the landmarked P.S. 31, the Bronx’s “Castle on the Concourse?” Not a whole lot, it seems. Welcome2theBronx checked in on the decrepit schoolhouse that garnered an emergency demolition order from the Department of Building’s in November. Seems like the structure has flown under the razing radar and made it through the brutal winter without suffering damage due to the heavy snow, even though the roofs of other buildings in the area collapsed. However, the actively crumbling structure still faces an uncertain future, caught in the trenches between those who want to see the structure salvaged, as is believed can be done, and those who see no cost-benefit in repairing the building’s massive structural cracks and many other problems.
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