Organized on April 19, 1844 as the Presbyterian Church of Williamsburgh, Old School. Original church structure was finished in May, 1846.1

The church was formed following a doctrinal split within the First Presbyterian Church of Williamsburgh.2

• 1. John D. Wells, A Brief History of the South Third Street Presbyterian Church, Williamsburgh, L.I.(New York: Sutton, Bowne & Co., 1870), http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nnc1.cr60063807, 43-44.
• 2. “Installation,” Brooklyn Evening Star, August 30, 1845, 2.