Designed by Superintendent of School Buildings C.B.J. Snyder, the new school’s first wing was completed in 1921, after construction was delayed by World War I and a fire that destroyed early blueprints.

Public School 139 opened in September of 1903 and served a student population of 898. Less than five years later the school had 1684 pupils and a was very well considered, both for student achievement and teacher reputation.

The former Jamaica High School was designed by famed Brooklyn architect William Tubby in the Dutch Revival style and opened to students in 1897. When the population of the neighborhood grew rapidly in the early 20th century, it became clear that a larger building was needed. The new high school was completed in 1927 and the students were moved out of this building. The building was retained by the BOE and has been used for various educational functions since the high school vacated nearly 90 years ago.

Puerto Rican-American poet Martin Espada wrote a poem about this particular school.

The Automotive Vocational School's McCarren Park campus was completed in 1937.

Built in 1935 as part of the Works Progress Administration, Public School 149 is an elementary school. The building was renovated in 1962 and in the mid 1960s became the location of a major school integration battle.

While most school buildings constructed by the city during the early part of the 20th century were multistory brick structures (with an occasional wood-frame annex building), Public School 211 in Coney Island was different. Built in the 1923, the surrounding neighborhood was still at that point sparse and residential with small, single-story structures. The school building consisted of two one-story wood-frame structures that houses more than 600 students, according to a newspaper report in 1935.

Designed by Edward A. Sargent in 1890, the large school building occupied the north side of Market Street from Broadway to Campbell Street. The building had a tall clock tower on the Broadway facing entrance, hip-roofed red-brick pavilions (the prominent portion of the building that jut out from the main building), and decorative gables that rose above the roofline. It is not known exactly when the building was demolished.

It is believed that this school had the very first rooftop playground.

P.S. 20 opened in 1899 when the Lower East Side was a neighborhood of poor immigrant families living in crowded, dark and decaying tenements.

Built in 1930 as a vocational high school for the textile trades, the building (actually two buildings, one each fronting 18th and 19th Streets, and connected in the middle) has had a number of names.

Opened in 1902, and likely designed by C.B.J Snyder, P.S. 129 originally had seats for 1600 students.

A C.B.J. Snyder school has a long history of promoting science-based learning and has been nicknamed the "School of Discovery."

Today the school is named for Bayard Taylor, an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat.

In 1940, the Parks Department acquired Public School 67, and cleared the site for a new playground and athletic field complex.

This school building opened in the spring of 1927 and was built to accommodate 1600 students. It was constructed utilizing a modified H-shaped structure, a design innovation conceived and executed by C.B.J. Snyder.

Today this school is called the John J.Pershing School. Pershing was an American general most well known as commander of the American Expeditionary Force on the Western Front during World War I.

This large brick school building was constructed in 1898, but did not open until 1900 due to political issues.

This school was named after Evander Childs, a lifelong New Yorker and graduate of City College who worked in city schools for over fifty years.

The school held its final classes in 1945, before the building was sold for factory conversion.

Grover Cleveland High School is one of seven Depression-era outer borough schools built with the same floorplan, in order to conserve funds.

Designed by William H. Gompert, the successor to C.B.J Snyder, P.S. 215 was constructed in the mid 1920s.

A 19th century wood-frame school that was standing as late as 1935.

George Washington High School was founded in 1919 as an annex of Morris High School.

In 1968, P.S. 76 was one of fifteen city schools at the forefront of standardized testing. The schools were selected to pilot a teletypewriter testing program, “the first in any large city,” according to the New York Times.

P.S. 35 named for Stephen Decatur, an early 19th century American Naval Officer.

Known as the "Castle on the Hill" the school building seen here was built in an "abstracted contemporary Collegiate Gothic style," according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

St. Walburga Convent and School was named after an 8th-century British female saint. The school provided housing and education for orphans administered by nuns.

When founded in 1916, the Yeshiva University High School for Boys was the first academic Jewish high school in New York City.

Formerly the Commercial High School, this classic H-shaped facility was designed by the New York's most influential school builder, C.B.J. Snyder.

New Bridges Elementary School was called the Parkside School for much of its history.

P.S. 49 opened in 1933 and was recently expanded in 2009 and again in 2017.

P.S. 198 opened in 1930.

This school is perhaps best known as the elementary school of Barbara Streisand attended.

The original structure that housed Public School 98 was the former mansion of Clinton Van Vliet, president of the Goodyear Rubber Goods Company.

Erasmus Hall Academy was founded in 1786 and was the first secondary school chartered by the New York State Regents.

Originally constructed as Public School 17 in 1908, the facility is also known as the Midtown West School.

Richmond Hill High School has a number of famous alumni including singer Cyndi Lauper, baseball player and commentator Phil Rizzuto, comedian Rodney Dangerfield, and Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua, who became a bishop, archbishop, and cardinal.

The Brooklyn Technical High School building at Fort Greene Place and DeKalb Avenue was built between 1930-33, and is today home to over 5,000 enrolled students.

High School of Music & Art, informally known as "Music & Art," existed from 1936 until 1984, when it merged into the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & the Arts and relocated to Lincoln Center.

James Madison graduates include no less than four Nobel Prize winners, two sitting U.S. Senators — Chuck Schumer (‘67) and Bernie Sanders (‘59) — and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (‘50).

After years of decline that paralleled the surrounding neighborhood, Thomas Jefferson closed in 2007 due to low graduation rates. Four separate high schools now operate out of the original building.

This West 40th Street building was the original home of the School of Industrial Art. Notable alumni include Tony Bennett, Art Spiegelman, Calvin Klein, and Marc Jacobs.

This 1923 school building had a recent renovation by the architect firm of Nelligan White circa 2010.

When this three-story Greek Revival schoolhouse was completed in 1846, it became the first public school in Brooklyn (despite the P.S. 8 designation, applied at a later date).

The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen was founded as an institution in 1785 to provide cultural, educational and social services to families of skilled craftsmen.

Public School 170, built in 1913, was renamed in memory of School District 20 superintendent Ralph A. Fabrizio in 2009.

J.H.S. 142, the junior high school attached to P.S. 142, occupied a mid-century addition at the corner of Henry and Coles Streets. The school closed in 2006.

The school building dates to around 1930, having replaced the previous P.S. 15 at State Street and Third Avenue. P.S. 15 closed in 1942, following declining enrollment.

In 1897 the school became P.S 135 and the Assembly Hall was used for twice-weekly free lectures for adults.

Constructed in 1929, the building was built to house a high school whose origins dated back to 1905 and the opening of Public School 62.

Public School 76 was constructed in 1888 and originally known as the Wynona School before being given the designation as P.S. 76.

Founded in 1903, the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School was a modern-day Orthodox Jewish school, also known as a yeshiva. The institution was named after Rabbi Jacob Joseph, the chief rabbi of New York City's Association of American Orthodox Hebrew Congregations.

St. James Church at 32 James Street funded the construction of St. James School. After 14 years of raising funds. the school building was completed in 1868.

A military training operation began at Xavier High School in 1886 under the direction of the National Guard; membership became mandatory in 1892.