Crossing Guard Coming To Metro Campus

After months of lobbying, parents and concerned residents near Metropolitan Avenue will finally have the aid of a crossing guard at the new in Forest Hills.

The campus, which will house four schools next year, opened in September 2010 to alleviate some of the overcrowding in District 28 schools. Since then, traffic snarls have popped up frequently on Metropolitan Avenue near Woodhaven Boulevard, where students and teachers enter and exit the campus. For most of the school year so far, students who walk home from the campus have been forced to go it alone.

Now however, thanks to a hire made recently by the, students will have the aid of a crossing guard at the campus.

According to a representative of City Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz’s office, the crossing guard’s first day on the job will be this coming Monday, March 21.

Greg Lavine, chief of staff to Koslowitz, visited the 112 Precinct Council meeting last week to thank the local precinct for training and deploying the crossing guard, a process that is necessary by law.

“The council member, along with Assemblyman Hevesi and Congressman Weiner, to get a crossing guard at the Metro Campus because it’s a busy street, as everybody knows,” Lavine said. “We’d like to thank the 112, along with the New York Police Department for being instrumental in that, along with the council.”