School staff to be booted from offices

Hundreds of public school staffers will lose their offices in the city’s Amazon deal, the Daily News has learned.

Education Department officials confirmed Thursday that the embattled Office of Pupil Transportation and other important public school functions will be evicted from their longstanding headquarters in Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio’s controversial plan to bring Amazon to the city.

The massive Education Department building at 4436 Vernon Blvd. will be a part of the site that will serve as Amazon headquarters in Long Island City, schools spokesman Will Mantell said.

Mantell did not provide a timeline for the looming change but said that all of the DOE staffers had to be out of the building by 2022 when Amazon will take over the space.

He did not provide information on the cost of the move.

Amazon reps declined to comment.

The multi-story city structure that will soon belong to Amazon currently houses approximately 1,000 Education Department staff from divisions including the $1.2 billion Office of Pupil Transportation, where FBI investigators executed a subpoena in October amid a shakeup prompted by allegations of corruption in the city’s massive yellow bus system.

The building is also home to the Division of School Facilities, which controls the city’s multibillion-dollar school construction spending and the office of food & nutrition services, which handles school meals for the city’s 1.1 million public school kids.

Mantell said staffers were notified of the move Wednesday.

Workers met the news with mixed reactions.

“I don’t think people are that upset,” said Anne Wells, 40, an official with the city schools’ Department of Environmental Health and Safety. “Where are we going next has taken over the suspense,” she added.