George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School
For other high schools named Westinghouse, see Westinghouse High School.
George Westinghouse Jr. High School of Career and Technical Education 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.
Notable alumni
- Busta Rhymes, real name Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., hip-hop artist and actor
- Roosevelt Chapman, 1980, basketball player and University of Dayton standout
- DMX, real name Earl Simmons, hip-hop artist and actor
- Jay-Z, real name Shawn Corey Carter, hip-hop artist and entrepreneur
- The Notorious B.I.G., real name Christopher George Latore Wallace, hip-hop artist
- Joe Pignatano, MLB catcher[1]
- Michael K. Williams, actor[2]
References
- ↑ "Westinghouse (Brooklyn,NY) Baseball". The Baseball Cube. Retrieved 2011-02-13.
- ↑ Michael Kenneth Williams’s High-Wire Act
External links
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