New Public School 3

New Public School 3
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Title: New Public School 3
Description:

Caption: "To replace Brooklyn's 'worst' school--Architect's drawing shows how new Public School 3 ... will look. Present structure has been widely condemned as a firetrap and eyesore." Note: Former building was located at Bedford Avenue and Hancock Street.

Date: 1947
Location: Bedford Stuyvesant (New York., N.Y.)
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: On recto: "School no. 3, Brooklyn, New York; Chapman, Studds & Evans, architects" printed in black in lower right.
On verso: typed caption: "... new Public School 3, Brooklyn, to be erected at Franklin and Jefferson Avenues in the Bedford Stuyvesant section ... Designed by Chapman, Studds and Evans, the new building will provide accommodations for 1,569 pupils and will cost $1,250,000."
Title from inscription on verso of SCHL 1230.
Collection: Schools
Subject: Elementary school buildings
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Architectural drawings.
Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Renderings.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library
ID: SCHL 1229