George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School
George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School is a vocational high school in Downtown Brooklyn, New York, United States. It is located at 105 Tech Place, south of Tillary Street and east of Jay Street. It is named after the electrical pioneer George Westinghouse Jr.
The school was one of a number of New York City public schools that dropped Native American-themed sports team names.[when?]
Notable alumni
- Joe Pignatano, MLB catcher[1]
- Larry McNeill, NBA player
- Roosevelt Chapman, basketball player and University of Dayton standout
- Michael K. Williams, actor[2]
- Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, rapper
- Busta Rhymes, real name Trevor Smith, Jr., rapper
- The Notorious B.I.G., real name Christopher Wallace, rapper
- Oliver "Power" Grant, entrepreneur, producer, actor and close Wu-Tang Clan associate
- Ed Smith, APF Black Video Game and Personal Computer designer during the 1970s[3]
- Theophilus London, rapper and singer
References
- ^ "Westinghouse (Brooklyn,NY) Baseball". The Baseball Cube. Archived from the original on 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2011-02-13.
- ^ Barshad, Amos (November 29, 2009). "Michael Kenneth Williams's High-Wire Act". New York.
- ^ Edwards, Ben J. (September 2, 2016). "Ed Smith And The Imagination Machine: The Untold Story Of A Black Video Game Pioneer".
External links
- Site on school at Education.com
- Official NYC Department of Education site
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Downtown Brooklyn
Brooklyn, New York City
- Cadman Plaza
- Columbus Park
- Walt Whitman Park
- Brooklyn Friends School
- Brooklyn Law School
- Brooklyn Frontiers High School
- Friends Meetinghouse and School
- George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School
- German School Brooklyn
- LIU Brooklyn
- New York City College of Technology
- New York University Tandon School of Engineering
- St. Joseph High School
- Baptist Temple
- Brooklyn Tabernacle
- Cathedral Basilica of St. James
- Friends Meetinghouse and School
- St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral
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- The Alloy Block
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- BellTel Lofts
- Brooklyn Commons
- The Brooklyn Tower
- Brooklyner
- City Point
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- Montague–Court Building
- Offerman Building
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