Designated April 23, 1991
Public School 86, a four-story brick and stone building erected between 1892 and 1893, was designed in the Romanesque Revival style by James W. Naughton, the superintendent of Buildings for the Board of Education of the City of Brooklyn. Built to address the educational needs of children in the surrounding neighborhood of northern Bushwick which was developing as an urbanized residential area in the late nineteenth century, it is a handsome example of the urban school house which was an important and significant element in the nineteenth-century streetscape.