The Herman Ridder Junior High School (also known as Public School 98) was a middle school in the Morrisania section of the Bronx, part of the New York City Department of Education. Constructed in 1929–31, the building is a New York City Landmark Art Deco structure designed by Walter C. Martin. It is named after Herman Ridder, a prominent newspaper publisher and editor. The middle school no longer exists and the building only contains high schools at the moment.
Notable alumni Stan Getz, jazz saxophonist Hal Linden, stage and screen actor, television director and musician Anibal Lopez, bodybuilder Al Pacino, actor of stage and screen, filmmaker, and screenwriter Regina Resnik, international opera singer Paul Stanley, singer, songwriter, Kiss frontman
In popular culture The school appears in the Baz Luhrmann television show The Get Down
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