While any and all construction activity of a promised new public school coming to the site of the old Bay Ridge Green Church is nowhere to be seen, the School Construction Authority has rather silently acquired land and is moving forward and progressing about a mile down the road at the corner of 4th Avenue and 89th Street.

In the last month or so, they’ve demolished the two buildings that stood on the lot that had been housing a car alarm installation business and a long closed car wash. 

From the looks of the DOB website, it appears as though numerous lots are being combined create the L shape footprint of a new school that will be called P.S. 264 and that the main entrance will be set off of the corner of 4th Avenue at 371 89th Street.

The Brooklyn Eagle reports that P.S. 264 is set to open in 2013 and will have enough space for 475 students.

To us, accommodation for up to 475 students actually means accommodation for up to 1,000 students — this is based off of our personal experience with the classroom and school size of the public schools that we’ve gone to here in Brooklyn.

This is arguably the first good construction project in the Bay Ridge/Fort Hamilton area in roughly 50-plus  years and we look forward to seeing it progress.