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New Utrecht High School 
Location 1601 80th Street
Brooklyn, New York, 11214Coordinates 40°36′48″N 74°00′11″W / 40.6132°N 74.003°WCoordinates: 40°36′48″N 74°00′11″W / 40.6132°N 74.003°W Information Type Public Established 1915 School district Region 7 Principal Maureen Goldfarb Faculty 206 Number of students 3,114[1] Color(s) White and Green Nickname Utes Newspaper The NUHS Endowment $30,876,459 Information Phone: 718-232-2500 Fax: 718-259-5526 Website New Utrecht High School New Utrecht High School is a coeducational public high school in Brooklyn, New York City, serving 3,114 pupils. It is part of New York City Region 7.
The front and rear views of the school building were employed in opening scenes of the popular TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter—which starred alumnus Gabe Kaplan.
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Alumni
Notable alumni include:
- Walter Adams: Economist, 13th President of Michigan State University, and Bronze Star Medal awardee.
- Arthur F. Byrnes High Jump Champion 1940
- Carmine Appice: Drummer for the rock group Vanilla Fudge.
- Gene Barry: Actor.
- Barbara Aronstein Black: Dean of Columbia Law School, first woman to head an Ivy League law school.
- Abe Burrows: Playwright.
- Pat Capri, major league baseball player[2]
- Phyllis Chesler, Feminist author and psychologist
- Tom DeFeo: President of Fangoria Magazine and Starlog Group
- Michael DiLeonardo, Gambino crime family mob associate and informant
- Jerry Ferrara: Actor.
- Cy Feuer: Playwright and stage director (of Feuer & Martin, producers of Guys and Dolls, Silk Stockings and other Broadway hits); did not graduate.
- Stanley Fink: Speaker of the New York State Assembly.
- Leo Friedman: Broadway Photographer.
- David Geffen: Media Mogul.
- Daniel Grunberg: Winner of New Utrecht's I. E. Moses Memorial medal for Plane Geometry. Winner of Lockheed Corporation's Robert E. Gross Award for Technical Excellence. (talk)
- Buddy Hackett: Comedian.
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Writer
- Moe Howard , born Harry Moses Horwitz: Member of the Three Stooges.
- Curly Howard, born Jerome Lester Horwitz: Member of the Three Stooges.
- Sal Iacono: Comedian.
- David Ignatow: Bollingen Prize Poet, Author, President of the Poetry Society of America.
- Gabe Kaplan: Comic, actor, poker player.
- Harold Lecar: Physicist, Neurobiologist at NIH and University of California at Berkeley.
- Michael Kidd: Choreographer.
- Paulie Malignaggi: "The Magic Man", professional boxer. Former IBF Junior Welterweight World Champion
- Robert Merrill: Opera Singer.
- Doretta Morrow: Musical comedy and operetta actress.
- John Saxon: Actor.
- Ralph Snyderman Physician,Scientist,Administrator.
- Arnold Stang: Comedian.
- Tony Visconti: Musician.
- John Zenda: Bataan Death March survivor.[3]
- Billy Amendola: drummer, producer, member of Mantus, songwriter, editor for Modern Drummer Publications
Advanced Placement courses offered
AP Calculus AB BC, AP Art History, AP World History/Human Geography, AP United states History and Government, AP English Language and Composition, AP English Literature and Composition, AP Chemistry, AP Psychology, AP Biology.
References
- ^ "Welcome – New Utrecht High School". New York City Department of Education. 2011. http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/20/K445/default.htm. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
- ^ "New Utrecht (Brooklyn,NY) Baseball". The Baseball Cube. http://www.thebaseballcube.com/hs/hs_alumni.asp?H=6455. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
- ^ Ramirez, Anthony (May 28, 2006). "For a Brooklyn Man, Grim Memories of a P.O.W. Camp". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E1D71E3EF93BA15756C0A9609C8B63. Retrieved July 16, 2009.
External links
- [www.newutrechthighschoolnyc.com Official Homepage]
Categories:- Education in Brooklyn
- Educational institutions established in 1915
- High schools in New York City
- New York City Department of Education
- Schools in Brooklyn
- New York school stubs
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