P.S. 130 Hernando De Soto School

143 Baxter Street | also 137 Baxter Street | Little Italy | built 1921

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1910
C.B.J. Snyder's P.S. 130 on Baxter Street is built in response to immigrant crowding
Public School 130, the DeSoto School, is a five-story buff brick building on a battered granite base, dated to 1910 with work in 1919 to 1921. Its Colonial Revival and Renaissance Revival styling is by the Board of Education architect C.B.J. Snyder. Schools like it were built to serve the booming immigrant population, and it is the only operating public school in the Chinatown and Little Italy historic district.
Source: National Register nomination
1944
P.S. 130 becomes the place where P.S. 23 students finish seventh and eighth grades
From 1944, P.S. 23 on Mulberry Street sent its pupils to P.S. 130 on Baxter Street to finish seventh and eighth grades. P.S. 23 opened in 1893 and closed in 1976. Alumni of P.S. 23 recalled the arrangement at a reunion in 2003.
Source: amny.com
2003
November
More than 200 P.S. 23 alumni begin a Museum of Chinese in the Americas reunion at P.S. 130
In November 2003 the Museum of Chinese in the Americas organized a reunion of P.S. 23 graduates that began with class photographs in the P.S. 130 cafeteria. More than 200 alumni attended. The gathering then moved to 70 Mulberry Street, the old school building that has housed the museum since 1980, where an oral historian and a video team recorded memories.
Source: amny.com

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