Leadership & Public Service High School

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15-story modernist education building completed in 1973. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, it was the home of the New York University Stern School of Business until 1992. The building is clad entirely in dark-grey granite panels, named after Charles E. Merrill. The corners are deeply indented, and the glassy entrances to the two facades are recessed. The grid of deeply recessed windows begins at the 3rd floor with short, rectangular windows, seven across on each facade, followed on each of the upper floors by larger, square windows. A 7th-story skybridge across Thames Street connects to the older High School of Economics & Finance.

The High School for Learning and Public Service was formed in 1993 as a joint project between Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the Board of Education of the City of New York. In order to make way for the newly formed high school, the Board of Education leased the building from NYU.

The school has 650 students.

www.leadershipnyc.org/