George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education 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.^[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, hip-hop artist and entrepreneur
DMX, real name Earl Simmons, rapper
Busta Rhymes, real name Trevor Smith, Jr., hip-hop artist and actor
The Notorious B.I.G., real name Christopher Wallace
Oliver "Power" Grant, entrepreneur, producer, actor and close Wu-Tang Clan associate

References

^ "Westinghouse (Brooklyn,NY) Baseball". The Baseball Cube. Retrieved 2011-02-13.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Michael Kenneth Williams’s High-Wire Act

External links

40°41′43.6″N 73°59′9.6″W / 40.695444°N 73.986000°W / 40.695444; -73.986000

[1] "Westinghouse (Brooklyn,NY) Baseball". The Baseball Cube. Retrieved 2011-02-13.^{[permanent dead link]}

[2] Michael Kenneth Williams’s High-Wire Act

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