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The Lincoln Annex School and New Brunswick's Shrinking Public Sphere
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New Brunswick's Lincoln Annex School, serving roughly 750 children in grades 4-8, may be shut down by the city and sold to Robert Wood Johnson to build a new Rutgers Cancer Institute building. Residents from across the community have expressed concerns about what the future could bring. At this point, the city has announced no contingency plan for the closing of the school. Students could very likely end up in a building over 2 miles away and outside of the fifth ward, in what has become locally known as the warehouse school, a rented warehouse structure that the school district has put to use during school renovations and other projects. If not the warehouse school, Lincoln Annex students could be relocated to the original Lincoln School, a building constructed in 1910 with no central air conditioning, limited technological capacities, and a school that is currently housing just four grade levels. James Boyle sits down with Charlie Kratovil of the Fifth and Sixth Ward Neighborhood Association to discuss how this fight over Lincoln Annex is situated against a larger backdrop of neoliberal redevelopment, the rise of an anti-democratic urban regime, and the strained relationships between the city's largest institutions and its most vulnerable community members.
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