Ridge Boulevard and 71st Street, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, September 4, 1914. P.S. 102 visible. Photographed for the Success Postal Card Company.
1914
Ridge Boulevard and 71st Street, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, September 4, 1914. P.S. 102 visible. Photographed for the Success Postal Card Company.
Public School 102 ca. 1914
Designed in the Italian neo-Renaissance style of brick and limestone, P.S. 102’s architectural gem is its 71st Street façade, whose decorative details include a dentilled cornice, wreath medallions, bracket lintels, arched windows and an arched doorway with columns and a triangular pediment. This site was previously home to the Bay Ridge District School No. 2, a red frame Queen Anne style schoolhouse built in 1883.