Automotive High School

Walking past Automotive High School on Bedford Avenue this past weekend, I was taken by the school's very 1930s message above the door: Manhood Service Labor Citizenship.  What a way to express the virtue of hard work and its contribution to the nation.

The building was built from 1937-1938 after the vocational school outgrew several prior spaces. Though it was once a very versatile vocational school, Automotive High School now focuses on academics as well as automotive education.  They also have a really nice school veggie garden out front. [The New York Times ran this piece about the school in 2007.]