East Side Community School (P.S. 60)

420 East 12th Street | also 418 East 12th Street | East Village | built 1923

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1923
An H-plan public school, P.S. 60, goes up on East 12th Street
The five-story brick building, erected in 1923 for the city's Board of Education, served first as P.S. 60. Its H-shaped plan is credited to architect William H. Gompert, and it went up just after World War I, when construction had stalled. Its entrances have arched surrounds with Ionic columns, oval pediments and carved beasts.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1923
William Gompert succeeds C.B.J. Snyder as the city's school architect and builds P.S. 60
Charles B.J. Snyder retired as New York's Superintendent of School Buildings in 1922, after designing eight East Village schools between 1893 and 1911. He was succeeded by William H. Gompert, and Village Preservation points to P.S. 60 at 430-432 East 12th Street, built in 1923 on the H plan, as work that carried on Snyder's approach.
Source: Village Preservation
1991
East Side Community School opens in the old P.S. 60 building, later sharing it with charter schools
East Side Community School, a public school for grades 6 to 12, was founded in 1991 at 420 East 12th Street. Over the following years the building also housed two charter schools: Girls Prep, and Ross Global Academy, which stayed until 2011. The H-plan school from 1923 thus became a shared campus for several schools.
“Founded in 1991, it is for students from the 6th to 12th grade ... Ross Global Academy, another charter school, until 2011.”
Source: Wikipedia

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