On September 6, 2023, new owners claimed Old Cook School located at 40 Cuyler Avenue with plans to turn the long-abandoned, crumbling building into a residential building. “We are excited that this long abandoned neighborhood eyesore will once again breathe life into the city,” Mayor Gusciora, s aid at the time. “The building will house families and seniors in close proximity to transportation networks.” Approximately 18 months since the sale, part of the roof collapsed into the main structure. No redevelopment shows and attempts fail to reach the owner identified as 40 Cuyler LLC in Spring Valley, NY. According to a city website, Department of Housing and Economic Development staff helped the Buyer prepare a preliminary site plan for the proposed redevelopment project. “We recognize the city’s economic success depends upon redevelopment, reinvestment, and renewal,” said Mayor W. Reed Gusciora. “This project will provide new housing options for current City residents as well as newcomers, all of whom will share in the prosperous future Trenton has to offer. My thanks to our Department of Housing and Economic Development for remaining dedicated to getting this transaction through; their work will make such a difference to the families who will soon call the former Old Cook School home.” Those optimistic words offered in 2023 have faded to disappointment as another property disintegrates around residents’ ears. Cook School closed in 1977, reopened a decade later as an alternative school then shuttered again. The school’s been abandoned for nearly 30 years. In 2008, the school district sold the building to the City of Trenton for $1. 40 Cuyler LLC. You’re on the clock! ...read more read less