Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan and other officials broke ground Wednesday on a new charter school and community center in Harlem.

The Promise Academy Charter School will accommodate 1,300 kindergarten through 12th-grade students.

The state-of-the-art building will also house a community center for residents of the St. Nicholas Houses.

"The school is also going to be a big plus for residents in this development. It's going to create hundreds of new job opportunities, jobs building the school, jobs maintaining the school and jobs working at the new community center that will also be built here," said the mayor.

The school is funded in part by a $60 million Department of Education grant, a $20 million donation from Goldman Sachs and a $6 million gift from Google.