STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The New York City Department of Transportation has installed new traffic safety improvements outside a Graniteville school in preparation for the upcoming school year.

When classes start Thursday at the Staten Island School of Civic Leadership and co-located special education school, parents, teachers and students will see a host of new pedestrian safety changes along Jules Drive, Regis Drive and Farragut Avenue.

To improve safety near the school — located a stone’s throw from the Staten Island Expressway — the DOT has redesigned the roadway and nearby intersections.

Along Jules Drive, near the school and the nearby Jennifer’s Playground, the transportation agency added painted sidewalk extensions, creating several feet of space between the curb and the new, floati

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