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 September 14, 2012. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
^ 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

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[1] "Westinghouse (Brooklyn,NY) Baseball". The Baseball Cube. Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved February 13, 2011.

[2] Barshad, Amos (November 29, 2009). "Michael Kenneth Williams's High-Wire Act". New York.

[3] Edwards, Ben J. (September 2, 2016). "Ed Smith And The Imagination Machine: The Untold Story Of A Black Video Game Pioneer".

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