After years of neglect, the historic 68th Precinct building on Sunset Park’s Fourth Avenue has reopened as a public school thanks to a restoration project and the addition of a new building that wraps around two sides of the original structure.

Scaffolding recently came down from the 1890s Romanesque Revival building at 4302 Fourth Ave., revealing a facade nearly restored to its former glory. Once crumbling, covered in graffiti and overgrown with weeds, the brick and brownstone structure now shines, its Roman brick returned to its original yellow-orange hue after cleaning and repointing.

Clearly visible for the first time in years are gargoyles punctuating the drip molding that tops the entrance portico, a lacy band of terra-cotta accenting a corner tower and, along 43rd Street, a rose w

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