Students are flying high at Stuy.
Stuyvesant HS has cracked down on what had become a pot plaza near its campus after an administrator complained that marijuana smoke was wafting into her office window.
Known as “The Alcove,” the small concrete park sandwiched between the Battery Park City school and the West Side Highway is a magnet for pot- and cigarette-puffing teens, students said.
“If people are doing drugs near school, they tend to do it in the alcove,” said one junior, dressed in a T-shirt emblazoned with images of pot leaves.
The area appeals to potheads because cops can’t get to it from the highway and teachers turn a blind eye to anything outside the building, the students said.
But after Student Affairs Coordinator Lisa Weinwurm sniffed trouble, the school began sending deans to the alcove to record ID numbers of any students loitering there. Students caught there more than once risk having their parents called in for a meeting with the dean and the principal.
“Our domain is usually not outside the school,” Principal Stanley Teitel told the student newspaper, The Spectator. “The only reason [Weinwurm] went out was because she smelled smoke from her office.”
Teitel did not respond to calls and e-mails requesting comment.