The Grand Street Campus is a building used as the home for three high schools in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City.

[6] It was originally located at a temporary site on Driggs Avenue and South 3rd Street on the north side of the Williamsburg Bridge, converted from the former Eastern District Library.

It sat across the street from the Williamsburgh branch of the Brooklyn Public Library and near the Marcy Avenue Station of the BMT Jamaica Line (currently served by the J, M, and Z trains).

[25][26][27] The H-shaped building was constructed with gray brick, limestone, and terracotta in Collegiate and English Gothic style.

Frequent demonstrations — both non-violent and violent — by students, parents, and community leaders were met with a large NYPD presence.

[37][42] In its final years of operation in the 1980s and early 1990s, Eastern District continued to be known for poor academics and frequent violence and safety issues.

The violence, including fights between students and attacks on faculty members, was attributed to both overcrowding and conflicts between the Black, Dominican, and Puerto Rican populations of the school.

[9][5][38][43][44] The violence and poor performance led principal Sonia Rivera to be removed in 1990 by Schools Chancellor Joseph Fernandez.

The school was found to have awarded credits to students for running errands, working at certain jobs, or for taking classes with little relation to the requirements they satisfied.

[52] The schools share the athletics program as the Grand Street Wolves, and have won multiple PSAL championships.

[2] The schools also share a large performing arts department including three concert bands, two jazz ensembles, a choir and a comprehensive dance program.

It features four programs (Medical Professions, Gateway: Math and Science, Instrumental Music, Fine Art) and four Advanced Placement courses.

The four-story school building with a 4,000 student capacity features two cafeterias, six gymnasiums, nine computer labs, and several Industrial arts rooms including auto and woodshop.

[59][71] In Betty Smith's 1943 book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, one of the principal characters, Cornelius "Neeley" Nolan, attends Eastern District High.