{"id":531716,"date":"2024-09-02T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/?p=531716"},"modified":"2024-09-02T00:23:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T04:23:06","slug":"labor-day-brooklyn-school-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/history\/labor-day-brooklyn-school-history\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Tales of Brooklyn Educational Institutions to Kick Off the School Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Labor Day is the last great hurrah for many as summer vacations wind to an end and students hunker down for another school year. Brooklyn has a rich history of educational institutions and we have rounded up a few tales of schools, buildings, and students below to start off the school year. <\/p>\n

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A Romanesque Revival Landmark by Brooklyn’s School Architect in Cypress Hills<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not very often that an architect can shape an entire portion of a city, but that\u2019s what James W. Naughton did with the Brooklyn Public School system between the years 1879 and 1898. In those 19 years, he was the sole architect of hundreds of school buildings in the City of Brooklyn, all the result of his position as Superintendent of Buildings for the Board of Education of the City of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> Single Page<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brooklyn has a rich history of educational institutions and we have rounded up a few tales of schools, buildings, and students to kick off the school. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188997,"featured_media":533828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7646],"tags":[4560,7088],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-531716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-education","tag-labor-day"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"5 Tales of Brooklyn Educational Institutions to Kick Off the School Year","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/history\/labor-day-brooklyn-school-history\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/history\/labor-day-brooklyn-school-history\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/brooklyn-school-flag-sdevries-2023.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/brooklyn-school-flag-sdevries-2023.jpg"},"articleSection":"History","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Susan De Vries"}],"creator":["Susan De Vries"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Brownstoner","logo":""},"keywords":["education","labor day"],"dateCreated":"2024-09-02T13:30:00Z","datePublished":"2024-09-02T13:30:00Z","dateModified":"2024-09-02T13:30:00Z"},"rendered":"