Mickey Mantle School Designated NYC Landmark

The Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the designation of the Mickey Mantle School/P.S. 811M on the Upper West Side as a New York City landmark.

(photo courtesy of NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission)

The Mickey Mantle School/P.S. 811M, originally opened as Grammar School No. 9 in 1896, at 460-466 West End Avenue, at the corner of 82nd Street.

Grammar School No. 9 was built as part of a sweeping school construction program launched to meet the City’s rapidly expanding population in the late 19th century.

The five-story building, designed in the Dutch Renaissance Revival style, has two major facades, and is clad in yellow ironspot Roman brick with grey limestone trim above a limestone base. It has stoops on both the West 82nd Street and West End Avenue facades and a picturesque roofline composed of stepped gables, finial-topped dormers and chimneys. It replaced a wooden school on the same site that may have been built as early as 1829.

Grammar School No. 9 originally opened as a school for girls, and had more than 1,100 students by 1898, the year it was renamed Public School 9. In 2002, it was renamed for the famed Yankees slugger Mickey Mantle, and currently educates children with special needs.

The Landmarks Commission also designated the former St. George Melkite Catholic Church at 103 Washington Street a city landmark.