John Jay Educational Campus

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)).

John Jay Educational Campus
Address
237 7th Avenue Brooklyn, New York City , New York 11215 United States
Coordinates	40.669429599°N 73.9788092°W / 40.669429599; -73.9788092

The building was constructed in 1902.^[3] It was designed by C. B. J. Snyder in the Modern French Renaissance style.^[4]

Notable alumni

• 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^[11]
• Harry Sylvester, and American author and journalist, recipient of the O. Henry Prize.

See also

• List of high schools in New York City

References

1. "The Secondary School for Law, Journalism and Research" Archived 2013-09-13 at the Wayback Machine on ParkSlopePatch
2. "237 7 Avenue" on the NYC DOE website
3. "237 7th Avenue, Brooklyn" on the New York City Geographic Information System map
4. Merlis, Brian; Rosenzweig, Lee (1999). Brooklyn's Park Slope. New York: Sheepshead Bay Historical Society. p. 24. ISBN 1878741470.
5. "Zaid Abdul-Aziz". Basketball Reference. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
6. Baum, Joan (February 2006). "Dr. Henri Ford, Pediatric Surgeon Extraordinaire". Education Update.
7. Geberer, Raanan (December 23, 2013). "Adams Names Brooklyn Real Estate Exec As Adviser". Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
8. "John Jay (Brooklyn, NY) Baseball". The Baseball Cube. Retrieved February 14, 2011.
9. Morrone, Francis (2001). An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn. Gibbs Smith. pp. 386, 387. ISBN 9781423619116.
10. Estevez, Marjua (June 23, 2014). "Certified Fresh: Nitty Scott, MC – A Lyrical Heavyweight". Hip-Hop Wired.
11. Young, Dick (March 10, 1970). "Mets Boot 8, Phils Romp 13-3". Daily News. p. 191. Retrieved June 14, 2024.

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