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PS 93

Facade of PS 93, a large, five-story, brick building located at 31 New York Avenue (at Herkimer Street), with iron fence along front, portions of adjacent buildings on both sides, and four small, leafless trees in foreground.

1909

Public School 93

PS 93

Facade of PS 93, a large, five-story, brick building located at 31 New York Avenue (at Herkimer Street), with iron fence along front, portions of adjacent buildings on both sides, and four small, leafless trees in foreground.

IMAGE DATE1909
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P.S. 93 is an elementary school located in Crown Heights, Brooklyn at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and New York Avenue. The school was built in 1907 in the "Collegiate Gothic" style. It was designed by the "school builder" of New York City, C.B.J. Snyder, who designed hundreds of school buildings in New York over his lifetime. In fact, he was appointed the Superintendent of School Building in the borough of Manhattan in 1891.

Like many buildings in the Collegiate Gothic style, Snyder's P.S. 93 is meant to invoke feelings of academic prestige. The plan of the building is an L-shape, a departure from the architect's signature H-shaped school buildings, though a reflection of the corner lot it occupied. The building's structure is a steel skeleton frame to allow for large windows to let light and fresh air into classrooms. The bricks used in the building are fire-proof terracotta. Decorating the facade, the faces of medieval scholars and various owls of wisdom adorn the structure. This building still operates as an elementary school to this date.

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