This playful 1941 fountain-sculpture by Raymond Granville Barger sits in the middle of Metropolitan Oval, the centerpiece of Parkchester. You can see more photos here.
"A Bronx River brownfield is reborn as a place of rugged beauty."
This school "was the first thoroughly 'modernistic' Art Deco style public school building in New York City and the first junior high school to depart in design from a modification of a standard elementary school plan."
Emanuel Pentecostal Faith Church: a tip of the hat to its predecessor, Emanuel Synagogue
A fairly common adornment on NYC public school facades.
A wise old owl sat in an oak
The more he saw the less he spoke
The less he spoke the more he heard
Why aren't we like that wise old bird?
Another churchagogue, the former Congregation Beth Jacob B’Arav Abraham
