John Jay Educational Campus
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox school/short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The John Jay Educational Campus is a New York City Department of Education facility at 237 Seventh Avenue between 4th and 5th Streets in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. Formerly the location of John Jay High School (originally Manual Training High School), which was closed in 2004 due to poor student performance,[1] the facility now houses John Jay School for Law (K462), Cyberarts Studio Academy (K463), Park Slope Collegiate (K464, formerly the Secondary School for Research) and Millennium Brooklyn High School (K684)[2] Template:Xref-print.
The building was constructed in 1902.[3] It was designed by C. B. J. Snyder in the Modern French Renaissance style.[4]
Notable alumni
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- Zaid Abdul-Aziz, professional basketball player.[5]
- Jean-Michel Basquiat, artist
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- Henri Ford, pediatric surgeon.[6]
- Anthony Lolli, real estate developer.[7]
- Davi Napoleon, née Davida Skurnick, theater historian and arts journalist
- Joe Pepitone, major league baseball player, notably with the New York Yankees.[8]
- Isidor Isaac Rabi, recipient of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physics.[9]
- Doc Rankin, cartoonist
- Thelma Ritter, actress.[9]
- Nitty Scott, rapper.[10]
- Jack Ryan, Basketball player and NYC streetball legend.
- Alexander Scourby, actor.[9]
- Henny Youngman, comedian.[9]
- Sam Parrilla, Major League Baseball outfielder for Philadelphia Phillies[11]
- Harry Sylvester, and American author and journalist, recipient of the O. Henry Prize.
See also
References
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- ↑ "The Secondary School for Law, Journalism and Research" Template:Webarchive on ParkSlopePatch
- ↑ "237 7 Avenue" on the NYC DOE website
- ↑ "237 7th Avenue, Brooklyn" on the New York City Geographic Information System map
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External links
- InsideSchools article on proposed school, 2010
- New York Times article on school closure, 2001
- Times article on controversies in school redesign, March 3, 2002
- (May 2003) Secondary School for Law, Journalism, and Research, "an administrative nightmare for the district," bans journalist
- Secondary School for Research