P.S. 51 was closed this summer after DOE tests detected levels of trichloroethylene nearly 10,000 times above the safe level in the soil vapor below the first floor cafeteria. All P.S. 51's children were transferred to a Catholic school three miles away in Crotona.
When a Bronx school shut this summer because of contamination, parents of students who’d attended the site over the past two decades worried about their children’s health—and wondered why the problem wasn’t detected earlier.
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