Bas relief at local school

Love these old bas relief sculpture at local school near the Boys' and Girls' entrances.

There is a lot of old bas relief work on most older buildings in NY.

From an article on the internet:

A couple of buildings at this completely ordinary East Side intersection have some extraordinarily lovely figures carved into their facades.

The sixth floor of the structure at the southeast corner features reliefs that look like dolls or babies, like this one at right. It appears to be an old factory building, so I wonder why it’s decorated with little ones in wreaths?

The twin goddesses below guard the entrance to a building a few doors up from 23rd Street on Park Avenue South.

Interestingly, the address above that doorway reads “303 Fourth Avenue,” a reminder that this stretch of Park Avenue South between 32nd Street and Union Square was called Fourth Avenue until 1959.

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