Thomas Jefferson High School (Brooklyn, New York)
Thomas Jefferson High School is a former high school in the East New York section of Brooklyn, New York. The New York City Department of Education closed the school and broke it into several different schools in 2007, owing to low graduation rates.[1]
Located at 400 Pennsylvania Avenue, the school is now the site of High School for Civil Rights, FDNY High School for Fire and Life Safety, the Performing Arts and Technology High School, and the WATCH (World Academy for Total Community Health) School.[1]
Groundbreaking for the school was in 1922, mayor John Francis Hylan officiating. Thomas Jefferson was one of seven public high schools in New York to receive a M.P. Möller pipe organ in the 1920s.[2]
Notable alumni
- Ralph Bakshi – animator
- Mitchell Aigen – accountant founder of Eisner
- Roy C. Bennett – popular music composer
- Lloyd Blankfein – CEO of Goldman Sachs
- Riddick Bowe – boxer
- John Brockington - Ohio State Buckeyes' 1968 undefeated national championship football team; running back for the NFL Green Bay Packers
- Shawon Dunston – major league baseball player[3]
- Leroy Ellis - former NBA center, 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers championship team
- Sylvia Fine – lyricist
- Frukwan – hip hop musician
- Jack Garfinkel – former Boston Celtics player
- Sidney Green - NBA player
- Hy Gotkin - basketball player
- Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky) – actor
- Ezra Jack Keats (born Jacob Ezra Katz) – illustrator and author of children's books
- Steve Lawrence – popular music singer
- Al Lewis – actor, political activist
- Willie Lozado – major league baseball player[4]
- Irving Malin – literary critic
- Jim McMillian - former NBA forward, 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers championship team
- Paul Mazursky – Hollywood director
- Linda November, singer
- Martin Pope - Physical chemist
- Phil Sellers – former NBA player
- Shelley Winters – actress
- Max Zaslofsky, NBA guard/forward, 1-time FT% leader, 1-time points leader, All-Star, ABA coach[5]
- Howard Zinn – historian, political activist
References
- Notes
- ^ a b "H.S. 435 Thomas Jefferson High School". InsideSchools.org. November 30, 2009. http://insideschools.org/index12.php?fso=1027&all=y. Retrieved January 3, 2010.
- ^ "Thomas Jefferson High School". New York City American Guild of Organists. http://www.nycago.org/Organs/Bkln/html/ThomasJeffersonHS.html. Retrieved January 3, 2010.
- ^ "Thomas Jefferson (Brooklyn,NY) Baseball". The Baseball Cube. http://www.thebaseballcube.com/hs/hs_alumni.asp?H=1965. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
- ^ "Thomas Jefferson (Brooklyn,NY) Baseball". The Baseball Cube. http://www.thebaseballcube.com/hs/hs_alumni.asp?H=1965. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
- ^ "Zaslofsky, Max : Jews In Sports @ Virtual Museum". Jewsinsports.org. December 7, 1925. http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=basketball&ID=5. Retrieved February 13, 2011.