This picture comes from "Collection of the Municipal Archives of the City of New York". This was originally School District #4. The school house was built on old Skillman Avenue on a site occupied by a storehouse behind the railroad commissary in the Sunnyside Rail yards, on the line of 32 Street. It was a plain frame structure 20 X 60  and lasted until 1863 when it was destroyed by fire. The school rebuilt in 1865 and continues in use after the 1870 consolidation as Primary School  # 3 until the Pennsylvania Railroad brought up all the land in the neighborhood. The school site then became isolated and lost all its students  as the railroad demolished all the houses in the vicinity to create the Sunnyside Yards. On March 1st 1907 it was officially closed by which times the enrollment has dwindled to eight.

Information comes from "300 years of  Long Island City 1630 to 1930 "
by Vincent F. Seyfried