Constructed as P.S. 43; later renamed P.S. 59 (Horace Greeley School). Designed by S. B. Leonard1 "School number forty-three has been built for primary purposes on Leonard street near Nassau avenue in Greenpoint. It is like the others that have been mentioned, a two story brick building, with a frontage of 46 feet and a depth of 92. It contains fourteen class rooms, and will afford accommodation for about 1,000 children." 2

• 1. Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide, v. 22, no. 544 (October 26, 1878), 881.
• 2. Brooklyn Daily Eagle (August 20, 1879), 3.