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Yesterday afternoon we swung by the construction site of P.S. 264K (for Kings County) and found a much bigger hole in the ground than we expected.

The far off distance goes down deep.

While we do find this hole to be going at an astonishing pace thanks to the help of some giant modern machinery, we can’t help but think that if the Roman Army were around they would have been able to have the entire thing dug out already by manpower alone. 

[Previously]

P.S. 264 Set To Rise In Brooklyn

P.S. 264 Brooklyn (Update)

Construction is progressing at P.S. 264 site despite the winter freeze.

Just about everyday finds a long line of dump trucks awaiting their turn to get into the lot and filled up. 

Plus an official ‘P.S. 264′ sign has gone up!

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.

Most construction walls are either kept blue or get covered up with fairly lame posters advertising everything from guido clubs to Obama; thankfully there’s a construction site on Atlantic Avenue off of Smith that is much more jolly…

It’s Buddha himself!  All greenish yellow and jolly - although without being able to see the face I can only assume that this is the Buddha of Plentiful Construction.