4. P.S. 137, 121 Saratoga Avenue
A few blocks from Gleason’s apartment is P.S. 137, “which accommodated students up to the sixth year of primary school,” notes The Golden Ham, “and which had a schoolyard designed for Gleason and his friends. “They played stickball and basketball, and when it rained, they forced the door to the school after hours and played downstairs in the gymnasium.”
Today the school is named P.S. 137 Rachael Jean Mitchell School. It serves pre-kindergarten through 8th-grade students.
