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,"The Secondary School for Law, Journalism and Research" on ParkSlopePatch 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)"237 7 Avenue" on the NYC DOE website .
The building was constructed in 1902."237 7th Avenue, Brooklyn" on the New York City Geographic Information System map It was designed by C. B. J. Snyder in the Modern French Renaissance style.
Notable alumni
Zaid Abdul-Aziz, professional basketball player. Sal Albanese, politician Jean-Michel Basquiat, artist John J. Buro, sports writer. Linwood G. Dunn, pioneer of visual special effects in motion pictures. Henri Ford, pediatric surgeon. Anthony Lolli, real estate developer. Davi Napoleon, née Davida Skurnick, theater historian and arts journalist Sam Parrilla, Major League Baseball outfielder for Philadelphia Phillies Joe Pepitone, major league baseball player, notably with the New York Yankees. Isidor Isaac Rabi, recipient of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physics. Doc Rankin, cartoonist Thelma Ritter, actress. Jack Ryan, Basketball player and NYC streetball legend. Nitty Scott, rapper. Alexander Scourby, actor. Harry Sylvester, and American author and journalist, recipient of the O. Henry Prize. Henny Youngman, comedian.
See also List of high schools in New York City
References
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