A Ottavino Corporation

The distinctive brick building, with its classic mansard roof, opened in 1877, making it the oldest public school in New York. It’s where Rockies relief pitcher Adam Ottavino attended elementary school. His mother, Eve, has taught at PS 39 for 25 years, and currently teaches in the same classroom where her son learned how to multiply and divide in the fourth grade. “Every year, I make Adam come in and talk to my kids about working hard and dreaming big,”  Eve said. “This is a really old school, and it was built for much shorter people. Adam’s 6-foot-5, so he barely fits in the doorways. He has to duck everywhere. But once he was a little kid in this school, just like these kids, so I tell them that anything can happen.” Plenty is happening for Ottavino. At age 32, in his eighth year in the majors, he’s pitching like an all-star. Entering the weekend, Ottavino has been almost untouchable, posting an 0.53 ERA. Utilizing his fastball and a deadly combination of sliders, Ottavino had struck out 31 of the 58 batters he’d faced for a 53.4 strikeout percentage that ranked second in baseball. This weekend, as the Rockies took on the Mets at Citi Field, he returned to the city, and the family roots, that shaped him. His great grandfather, Adamo Ottavino, literally helped shaped the face of New York City. In 1913, he founded the A. Ottavino Corporation, a stone-and-granite company, which for 105 years has specialized in building restoration, fine art conservation and stone fabrication. The company restored the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in 1986, it restored the granite base of the Statue of Liberty. Ottavino’s grandfather, and his father, for a time, worked at the stone company.. “I think New York really helped shape Adam into who he is,” Eve said. “When he was a kid, he would go all over the city, on his own, unsupervised. It helped him become independent, I think. He was into skateboarding for a while, and he&...

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