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"SHCOOL X-NG": Big Typo On Stanton Street

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The Post is horrified that "A slew of officials have failed to report a humiliating spelling error — 'SHCOOL X-NG' — plastered on Stanton Street outside a Lower East Side high school for months." It's been on the street so long, it's on Google Maps! Also, The Lo Down was all over earlier.

The warning is outside the Marta Valle High School, and its PTA president took the time to complain, "Nothing surprises me anymore at this school... What’s ironic is that the principal has probably painted the lunchroom and rooms inside over about five times since 2010. She’s probably spent $100,000 in paint doing and redoing the inside of the school, but she doesn’t notice this right outside her door!"

The Department of Transportation told the Post that error was the fault of a utility provider "and not the city or any of its contractors" after some work on the street. But one city worker claims, "Regardless of who painted it, someone from the school should have been outside supervising, or noticed it by now. This is sloppy work." Who knew that schools had to supervise street work?!? Anyway, the DOT says it's fixing it.

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  • karmah
    LOL They got X-ing wrong, too!  It's not suppose to be X-ng!
  • karmah
    dyslexia
  • RevDaniel
    This happens all the time, what's the big deal? I spotted the same typo on a permanent mural in Harlem recently thats been up for nearly 3 years now, that was painted by students, while parents and teachers observed! Here's a link to a story on the mural, and then my snap of the typo close-up... (http://www.ny1.com/content/top...
  • sketto
    This article has two errors itself:
    "The Low Down was all over (it) earlier."
    "The Department of Transportation told the Post that (the) error was the fault of a..."

    I'd say this is ironic given the topic, but it's so common in articles on Gothamist that I'd have to say it's just the usual lax standard.
  • Ed_Ucation
    Greenwich and Duane outside PS 234
  • Professor Von Nostren
    Haha, aswome!
  • hamburgerhelpless
    they must correct this error IMMEDIATELY, or else every single kid that goes down this street will go on to live a miserable, illiterate life and they will never know happiness or the love of another human being.
  • Mr. Know-It-All
    Don't worry, man. 'Sh cool.
  • scoboco
    Maybe it's actually some drunk guy's tag, saying "It's cool"?
  • cr17
    He should have written "Saul Goodman" instead.
  • Wow, that PTA president is an idiot. Last time I checked school principals aren't responsible for road signs.
  • Detex
    I was thinking the same thing! People are freaking retarded.
  • cr17
    Maybe there's a synagogue near there...
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