Volunteers To Help Sandy-Ravaged Rockaways Facility Get Ready For Universal Pre-K

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - A new pre-kindergarten space is set to rise out of the destruction of superstorm Sandy in the Rockaways.

As WCBS 880's Jim Smith reported, a volunteer group has pitched in to allow a nursery school to expand its offerings.

"We're gonna be converting an old caretaker's house into universal pre-K classrooms," site manager Cameron Shore of the volunteer group New York Cares told Smith.

Listen to Volunteers To Help Sandy-Ravaged Rockaways Facility Get Ready For Universal Pre-K

Work gets under way this week at the West End Temple to transform the ruins of Sandy into Mayor Bill de Blasio's much talked about vision for pre-K.

"It's going to be two classrooms with, there'll be some sort of teacher's lounge area upstairs and then two bathrooms and a kitchenette downstairs as well," said Shore.

Volunteers with the group finished rehabbing a Rockaways food pantry over the weekend.

The classrooms are expected to be completed by June so they can open to students in the fall.

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