School in Brooklyn, New York City
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] (see also: Millennium High School (New York City)).
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
- John J. Buro, sports writer.[citation needed]
- Linwood G. Dunn, pioneer of visual special effects in motion pictures.[citation needed]
- 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.
- Harry Sylvester, and American author and journalist, recipient of the O. Henry Prize.
