{{Short description|Public school campus in New York City}} {{Use American English|date=October 2024}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2024}} [[File:Grand Street Campus High School.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Grand Street Campus in 2022.]] The '''Grand Street Campus''' is a building used as the home for three [[high school]]s in [[Williamsburg, New York|Williamsburg]], [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]]. The current building at 850 Grand Street opened in 1981; its identity as the Grand Street Campus dates to 1996. It is currently the home of '''[[The High School for Enterprise, Business and Technology]]''', '''PROGRESS High School for Professional Careers''', and the '''East Williamsburg Scholars Academy'''.
The history of the Campus dates back to the '''Eastern District High School''', a defunct public high school. Eastern District was founded in 1900 and was originally located at Driggs Avenue and South 3rd Street. It later moved to 227 Marcy Avenue, and finally to 850 Grand Street in 1981.<ref>[http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/ny_local/1995/10/16/1995-10-16_state_bigs_revisit_eastern_d.html NY Daily News]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Eastern District High School flunks</ref> It was a comprehensive high school. Eastern District High School operated from 1900 to mid-1996, when it was closed because of poor academic performance.<ref name=Capital-GrandSt-GW-Baseball-2012>{{cite web|last1=Hanton|first1=Greg|title=From the wrong side of Williamsburg to the top of New York City baseball|url=http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/sports/2012/06/6007385/wrong-side-williamsburg-top-new-york-city-baseball?page=all|website=[[Capital New York|capitalnewyork.com]]|publisher=[[Capital New York]], [[Politico]]|access-date=24 May 2015|date=June 12, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2009/08/06/brooklyn/brooklyngnkdyeo08062009.txt |title=Yournabe.com |publisher=Yournabe.com |date=August 6, 2009 |access-date=January 31, 2011}}</ref><ref name=NYPost-EDHSAlums-2009 /> After Eastern District High School closed, the building was rebranded in late 1996 as the Grand Street Campus, with several smaller new schools operating within the same facilities.<ref name=NYTimes-TroubledGiants-GSC-2001 /><ref name=Capital-GrandSt-GW-Baseball-2012 /><ref name=NYPost-EDHSAlums-2009 />
==History== ===As Eastern District High School=== {{Infobox school | name = Eastern District High School | image = | alt = | caption = | motto = | address = 850 [[Grand Street and Grand Avenue|Grand Street]] | city = [[Brooklyn]] | state = [[New York (state)|New York]] | zipcode = 11211 | country = [[United States]] | coordinates = {{coord|40|42|43|N|73|56|21|W|region:US|display=inline,title}} | established = <!-- {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} --> | opened = February 5, 1900<ref name=BklynEagle-NewEDHS-Feb51900 /><ref name=NYTimes-EDHS-1stPrincipal-1934>{{cite web|title=DR. W.T.YMEN, 74, LONG TEACHER, DIES; Succumbs at His Florida Home -- At Retirement in 1930 Had Taught 48 Years. HEADED BROOKLYN SCHOOL First Principal in lg00 of the Eastern District High School Was Strict Disciplinarian.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/08/17/94557343.pdf|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=24 May 2015|location=[[Panama City, Florida]]|date=August 17, 1934}}</ref> | free_label = Construction cost | free_text = <!-- [[USD$|$]]46 million<ref name=BklynBallparks-TakeTheField /> --> | closed = 1996 (re-opened as Grand Street Campus) | type = [[Public school (government funded)|Public]] | district = | grades = | superintendent = | principal = | viceprincipal = | principal1 = William T. Vlymen (1900-1930)<ref name=NYTimes-EDHS-1stPrincipal-1934/><ref name=BklynEagle-EDHS-July71899>{{cite news|title=Vlymen Unanimously Elected: He Will Be the First Principal of Eastern District High School|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/50385699/?terms=%22Eastern%2BDistrict%2BHigh%2BSchool%22|access-date=29 January 2016|work=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=July 7, 1899|page=7}}</ref><!-- use | principal_label1 = to override the default label --> | principal_label1 = First principal | principal2 = Floyd Green (1990-1996)<!-- use | principal_label2 = to override the default label --> | principal_label2 = Last principal | enrollment = 3,300 (1992)<ref name=NYTimes-EDHS-Boycott-1992>{{cite web|last1=Rabinovitz|first1=Jonathan|title=Boycott Urged at Brooklyn School Stung by Violence|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/04/nyregion/boycott-urged-at-brooklyn-school-stung-by-violence.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=24 May 2015|date=October 4, 1992}}</ref><br>1,800 (2001) (As Grand Street Campus)<ref name=NYTimes-TroubledGiants-GSC-2001 /> | faculty = | campus_type = | campus_size = | athletic_conference = | sports = | mascot = | mascot_image = | nickname = | team_name = Knights (Eastern District)<ref name=NYTimes-EDKnightsBaseball-1988 /><br>Wolves (Grand Street)<ref name=Capital-GrandSt-GW-Baseball-2012 /> | newspaper = | colors = | communities = | feeder_schools = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | footnotes = }}
====Original buildings==== [[File:Eastern District High School td (2019-08-15) 12.jpg|thumb|left|The Marcy Avenue location of the high school, opened in 1907.]] Eastern District High School was proposed in 1894, prior to [[History of New York City#Tammany and consolidation: 1855–1897|unification]] of the five boroughs of New York City.<ref>{{cite news|title=Opposed to Owens' Bill: Mr. Schieren Not in Favor of an Eastern District High School|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/50348778/?terms=%22Eastern%2BDistrict%2BHigh%2BSchool%22|access-date=30 January 2016|work=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=January 13, 1894|page=10}}</ref> The name "Eastern District" originates from the annexation of [[Williamsburg, Brooklyn|Williamsburg]] and [[Bushwick, Brooklyn|Bushwick]] into the city of Brooklyn as its Eastern District in 1855.<ref name=Capital-GrandSt-GW-Baseball-2012 /><ref name="NYDaily-EDHS-LastGraduation-1998">{{cite news|last1=Williams|first1=Laura|title=LAST GRADUATION ENDS LONG, TROUBLED LEGACY|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/boroughs/graduation-ends-long-troubled-legacy-article-1.802016|access-date=20 August 2016|work=[[Daily News (New York)]]|date=June 29, 1998}}</ref> The school held its first classes on February 5, 1900, with 188 students.<ref name=BklynEagle-NewEDHS-Feb51900>{{cite news|title=NEW E.D. HIGH SCHOOL OPEN: Lessons Were Given Out and Pupils Assigned to Classes-182 Present|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/50383294/?terms=%22Eastern%2BDistrict%2BHigh%2BSchool%22|access-date=29 January 2016|work=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=February 5, 1900|page=18}}</ref> It was originally located at a temporary site on Driggs Avenue and South 3rd Street on the north side of the [[Williamsburg Bridge]], converted from the former Eastern District Library.<ref name=BklynEagle-EDHS-July71899/><ref name="NYDaily-EDHS-LastGraduation-1998"/><ref name=NYTimes-HMiller-1890s/><ref name=BklynEagle-CityNewSchools-Sept1899>{{cite news|title=The City's New Schools: Brooklyn Schools Open With Two New Buildings - Six to Follow in February|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/50389326/?terms=%22Eastern%2BDistrict%2BHigh%2BSchool%22|access-date=29 January 2016|work=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=September 10, 1899|page=24}}</ref> In 1902,<ref>{{cite news|title=Building Committee Reports the Award of Numerous Contracts|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/50376398/?terms=%22Eastern%2BDistrict%2BHigh%2BSchool%22%2Bmccaddin|access-date=30 January 2016|work=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=June 19, 1902|page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Need for More Schools Shown|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/50415976/?terms=%22Eastern%2BDistrict%2BHigh%2BSchool%22%2Bmccaddin|access-date=30 January 2016|work=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=September 16, 1902|page=20}}</ref> operations were expanded to the nearby Henry McCaddin Memorial Hall at 288 Berry Street between South 2nd and South 3rd Streets.<ref name=BklynEagle-EDHS-July71899/><ref name=NYTimes-HMiller-1890s>{{cite web|author1=Miller, Henry|author-link=Henry Miller|title=A Boyhood View Of the Nineties; Henry Miller: The 90's in Williamsburg|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/10/17/91309289.pdf|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=18 June 2015|date=October 17, 1917}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Of Interest to Latin Students|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1900/09/22/105753279.pdf|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=19 June 2015|date=September 22, 1900}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=MC CADDIN HALL REPORT SURPRISES MRS> WALSH: News That Memorial May Be Sold to the City Apparently Displeases the Donor|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/50360776/?terms=%22Eastern%2BDistrict%2BHigh%2BSchool%22%2Bmccaddin|access-date=30 January 2016|work=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=October 18, 1900|page=20}}</ref> McCaddin Hall still stands adjacent to the Saints Peter and Paul Church, and later served as a school for the Catholic parish, as well as a library and a concert hall.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Heyman|first1=Marshall|title=The Beautiful Beasts of Berry Street|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304465604579218240981751058|website=[[The Wall Street Journal|wsj.com]]|publisher=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|access-date=19 June 2015|date=November 24, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=SMALL HOPE FOR HIGH SCHOOL: Board of Education's Action Prejudicial to a New Building in the Eastern District|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/50411604/?terms=%22Eastern%2BDistrict%2BHigh%2BSchool%22%2Bmccaddin|access-date=30 January 2016|work=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=July 9, 1902|page=2}}</ref> Eastern District graduated its first class in 1904.<ref>{{cite web|title=l.ERUCHWOLFEDIES; PROSECUTOR'S AWE|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/03/28/93734874.pdf|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=19 June 2015|date=March 28, 1955}}</ref> Later, Public School 143 on North Ninth Street and Havemeyer Street was used as a third annex.<ref name=BklynEagle-EDHS-Sept81907>{{cite news|title=Facts for E.D.H.S. Students|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/54518875/?terms=%22Eastern%2BDistrict%2BHigh%2BSchool%22%2Bmarcy|access-date=30 January 2016|work=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=September 8, 1907|page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=School|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GYI3AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA12|access-date=29 January 2016|date=September 6, 1906|page=12}}</ref>
The second location, opened in fall 1907,<ref name=BklynEagle-EDHS-Sept81907/><ref name=BklynEagle-EDHS-Sept21907>{{cite news|title=Day Among New Schools With Supt. Snyder|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/54518486/?terms=%22Eastern%2BDistrict%2BHigh%2BSchool%22|access-date=30 January 2016|work=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=September 2, 1907|page=6}}</ref> was situated in western Williamsburg on Marcy Avenue between Keap Street and Rodney Street. It sat across the street from the Williamsburgh branch of the [[Brooklyn Public Library]] and near the [[Marcy Avenue (BMT Jamaica Line)|Marcy Avenue Station]] of the [[BMT Jamaica Line]] (currently served by the {{NYCS|J}}, {{NYCS|M}}, and {{NYCS|Z}} trains).<ref name=NYTimes-EDHS-FaceLift-1971>{{cite web|last1=Macroff|first1=Gene I.|title=Brooklyn School Given Face-Lifting|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/09/04/79690457.pdf|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=18 June 2015|date=September 4, 1971}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Fire in Jewish Temple: Beth-Elohim, Williamsburg, Suffers $25,000 Damage.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1908/11/21/104813310.pdf|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=25 May 2015|date=November 21, 1908}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Parades om Brooklyn: Thousands of Children Take Part in Them-Gaynor Reviews Them|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/10/03/106722005.pdf|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=25 May 2015|date=October 3, 1909}}</ref> The H-shaped building was constructed with gray brick, limestone, and [[terracotta]] in [[Collegiate Gothic|Collegiate]] and [[English Gothic architecture|English Gothic]] style.<ref name=BklynEagle-EDHS-Sept21907/><ref>{{cite news|title=Cornerstone of E.D.H.S. to be Laid To-day|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/53793109/?terms=%22Eastern%2BDistrict%2BHigh%2BSchool%22|access-date=30 January 2016|work=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=June 26, 1906|page=10}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=First Steps To Erect Eastern District High School|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/viewer/?file=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%25207%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Eagle%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Eagle%25201905%2520Grayscale%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Eagle%25201905%2520a%2520Grayscale%2520-%25202134.pdf&highlightsFile=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2Fhighlighter%2Fhits%2F20e7d05d9c48400280209ade2c615697#page=1|access-date=20 August 2016|work=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]|agency=[[Fultonhistory.com]]|date=September 29, 1905}}</ref>
Beginning in the 1960s, Eastern District High School was one of several schools plagued by overcrowding, poor academic performance, low attendance, and student unrest. Frequent demonstrations — both non-violent and violent — by students, parents, and community leaders were met with a large [[NYPD]] presence. In the spring of 1969, the school was closed several times after a student protest, an incident of vandalism in which glass partitions and windows were shattered, a series of 10 small fires set primarily in the school's cafeteria, and finally a student riot in the cafeteria. The unrest was due to demands to the principal by the school's student leadership not being met, including dismissing a school dean.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Johnston|first1=Richard J. H.|title=Two Schools Are Closed Here By Parent and Student Protests|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/03/08/88984060.pdf|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=19 June 2015|date=March 8, 1969}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=City to Shut Eastern District Because of Student Melee|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/03/09/90060756.pdf|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=19 June 2015|date=March 9, 1969}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Brady|first1=Thomas F.|title=Fires Set in Williamsburg School: Eastern District Erupts|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/03/12/78331470.pdf|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=19 June 2015|date=March 12, 1969}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Currivan|first1=Gene|title=Brooklyn High School Closed After Student Riot|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/04/19/78343121.pdf|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=19 June 2015|date=April 19, 1969}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=NEW E. D. HIGH SCHOOL CORNER STONE LAYING|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/53793124/?terms=%22Eastern%2BDistrict%2BHigh%2BSchool%22|access-date=30 January 2016|work=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=June 26, 1906|page=25}}</ref>
Reflective of the large [[Puerto Ricans|Puerto Rican]] population of the school at the time, Eastern District employed the first [[Puerto Ricans|Puerto Rican]] high school principal in [[New York City]] when Marco Hernandez was appointed as acting principal in August 1971.<ref name=NYTImes-PuertoRicanPrincipal-EDHS-1971/>
Built to serve a maximum of 1,800 students, Eastern District had an enrollment of 2,900 students by the time the Marcy Avenue building closed in April 1981. The overcrowding had forced over 500 students to attend classes in either a schoolyard annex or the local [[YMCA]]. That same month Eastern District was moved to its current location.<ref name=NYTImes-PuertoRicanPrincipal-EDHS-1971>{{cite web|title=Principal Begins Task in Brooklyn: First Puerto Rican to Head High School Maps Plans|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/08/29/79688555.pdf|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=18 June 2015|date=August 29, 1971}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Fowler|first1=Glenn|title=PLAN TO SHIFT POPULAR PRINCIPAL CLOUDS OPENING OF NEW SCHOOL|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/29/nyregion/plan-to-shift-popular-principal-clouds-opening-of-new-school.html|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=18 June 2015|date=March 29, 1981}}</ref><ref name=NYTimes-EDHS-NewBuilding-1981>{{cite web|title=The City; New School Opens Under Old Principal|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/01/nyregion/the-city-new-school-opens-under-old-principal.html|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=25 May 2015|date=April 1, 1981}}</ref><ref name=NYTimes-EDHS-AssaultonFailure-1987>{{cite web|last1=Nix|first1=Crystal|title=EASTERN HIGH'S DAILY ASSAULT ON FAILURE|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/22/nyregion/eastern-high-s-daily-assault-on-failure.html?pagewanted=all|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=25 May 2015|date=June 22, 1987}}</ref><ref name=NYTimes-EDHS-Newbuilding-Budget-1971>{{cite web|last1=Fowler|first1=Glenn|title=Nearly Finished School Focus of Budget Cutback Dispute|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/12/21/355384682.pdf|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=18 June 2015|date=December 21, 1975}}</ref> The Marcy Avenue building is currently used by a [[yeshiva]] school for girls, Bais Ruchel d'Satmar.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Berger|first1=Joseph|title=Hasidic Sect Hopes to Buy Huge Armory in Brooklyn|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/nyregion/hasidic-sect-may-buy-huge-brooklyn-armory.html?_r=0|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=25 May 2015|date=April 11, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Feuer|first1=Alan|title=A Piece of Brooklyn Perhaps Lost to Time|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/nyregion/05stop.html|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=25 May 2015|date=July 5, 2009}}</ref>
====New building==== Following the closure of the Marcy Avenue location, Eastern District moved into its final location in eastern Williamsburg. Known as "Northeast Brooklyn High School" during construction, the four-story building and campus was built to alleviate crowding both in EDHS and [[Bushwick High School]].<ref name=NYTimes-EDHS-NewBuilding-1981 /><ref name=NYTimes-EDHS-AssaultonFailure-1987 /><ref name=NYTimes-EDHS-Newbuilding-Budget-1971/> The new building opened on April 1, 1981.<ref name=NYTimes-EDHS-NewBuilding-1981 /><ref name="EDHS-Competency-1981">{{cite web|title=Eastern District High School Competency Based Bilingual/Bicultural Project: 1980-1981|url=https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED219487|publisher=[[New York City Board of Education]]|access-date=20 August 2016|date=1981}}</ref>
In its final years of operation in the 1980s and early 1990s, Eastern District continued to be known for poor academics and frequent violence and safety issues. The school had high dropout and truancy rates, with graduation consistently below 20%. The violence, including fights between students and attacks on faculty members, was attributed to both overcrowding and conflicts between the [[African American|Black]], [[People of the Dominican Republic|Dominican]], and [[Puerto Rican people|Puerto Rican]] populations of the school. The school was also one of the first to receive weekly [[metal detector]] screenings and later permanent metal detectors.<ref name=NYTimes-EDHS-Boycott-1992 /><ref name=NYTimes-TroubledGiants-GSC-2001 /><ref name=NYTimes-EDHS-AssaultonFailure-1987 /><ref name=NYTimes-EDHS-LongClimb-1991 /><ref name=NYTimes-EDHS-HopesTensions-1992>{{cite web|last1=Mitchell|first1=Alison|title=As Parents' Hopes Rise, So Do a High School's Tensions|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/08/nyregion/as-parents-hopes-rise-so-do-a-high-school-s-tensions.html?pagewanted=all|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=25 May 2015|date=October 8, 1992}}</ref> The violence and poor performance led principal Sonia Rivera to be removed in 1990 by Schools Chancellor Joseph Fernandez. Rivera was later charged with incompetence by the [[New York City Board of Education]]. The school was moved from the state's list of failing schools to the Chancellor's District of perennially failing schools, and a two-day boycott was held by parents and students in 1992 due to the dire state of the school.<ref name=NYTimes-TroubledGiants-GSC-2001 /><ref name=NYTimes-EDHS-LongClimb-1991 /><ref name=NYTimes-EDHS-HopesTensions-1992 /><ref name=NYTimes-EDHS-Rivera-incompetence-1990>{{cite web|last1=Navarro|first1=Mireya|title=Principal's Incompetence Case Is Seen as a Test for Fernandez|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/11/nyregion/principal-s-incompetence-case-is-seen-as-a-test-for-fernandez.html?pagewanted=all|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=25 May 2015|date=March 11, 1990}}</ref> The school was ranked as the "second most violent school in the city" in the 1994-1995 academic year, with 232 incidents of violence.<ref>{{cite news|last1=George|first1=Tara|title=LOW MARKS FOR HIGH SCHOOL ANGRY PARENTS PROTEST OUTSIDE EASTERN DISTRICT|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/boroughs/marks-high-school-angry-parents-protest-eastern-district-article-1.708773|access-date=20 August 2016|work=[[Daily News (New York)]]|date=September 28, 1995}}</ref> Eastern District High School was closed following the 1995-1996 academic year, in which the school had a 30% dropout rate and a 62.3% attendance rate.<ref name=NYTimes-TroubledGiants-GSC-2001 />
===As Grand Street Campus=== In the fall of 1996, the building was reopened as Grand Street Campus, housing several small high schools under one roof. Grand Street was one of the first former large high schools in New York City to be reopened as an "educational campus." As part of the restructuring, the campus' metal detectors were removed. The new schools were '''[[The High School for Enterprise, Business and Technology]]''', '''Progress High School for Professional Careers''', the '''High School for Legal Studies''', and '''Eastern District Senior Academy'''.<ref name=NYTimes-TroubledGiants-GSC-2001>{{cite web|last1=Holloway|first1=Lynette|title=A Small Strategy for Troubled Giants|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/16/nyregion/a-small-strategy-for-troubled-giants.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=25 May 2015|date=May 16, 2001}}</ref><ref name=Capital-GrandSt-GW-Baseball-2012 /><ref name=NYPost-EDHSAlums-2009>{{cite web|author1=Courier Life|title=Eastern District H.S. lives on in hearts of alums|url=https://nypost.com/2009/08/06/eastern-district-h-s-lives-on-in-hearts-of-alums/|website=[[New York Post|nypost.com]]|publisher=[[New York Post]]|access-date=24 May 2015|date=August 6, 2009}}</ref><ref name=NYTimes-EDSeniorAcad-1998>{{cite web|last1=Steinberg|first1=Jacques|title=Credit for Errands and Fantasy Baseball|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/25/nyregion/credit-for-errands-and-fantasy-baseball.html|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=25 May 2015|date=June 25, 1998}}</ref><ref name=NYCSCI-EDSenAcadReport-1998>{{cite web|last1=Kerby|first1=Shawn|last2=Crowley|first2=Mark|title=HOW TO SUCCEED WITHOUT REALLY TRYING: THE ALTERNATIVE TO EDUCATION AT EASTERN DISTRICT SENIOR ACADEMY|url=http://www.nycsci.org/reports/6-98%20Eastern%20district.PDF|website=[[New York City Department of Investigation|nycsci.org]]|publisher=[[New York City Department of Investigation|The Special Commissioner of Investigation For the New York City School District]]|access-date=3 June 2015|date=June 1998|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305002247/http://www.nycsci.org/reports/6-98%20Eastern%20district.PDF|archive-date=2016-03-05|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Edelman|first1=Susan|last2=Conley|first2=Kirstan|title=Staffers 'not informed' after gun attack at NYC high school|url=https://nypost.com/2015/01/25/staffers-not-informed-after-gun-attack-at-nyc-high-school/|website=[[New York Post|nypost.com]]|publisher=[[New York Post]]|access-date=25 July 2015|date=January 25, 2015}}</ref> Senior Academy, an [[alternative assessment]] school, only operated for two school years, closing in June 1998 and enrolling only junior and senior students from the former high school.<ref name="NYDaily-EDHS-LastGraduation-1998"/><ref name=NYTimes-EDSeniorAcad-1998/><ref name=NYCSCI-EDSenAcadReport-1998/><ref>{{cite news|last1=Williams|first1=Laura|title=EASTERN HS RALLY HITS ED BOARD PROTEST DISTRICT SWITCH|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/boroughs/eastern-hs-rally-hits-ed-board-protest-district-switch-article-1.758059|access-date=20 August 2016|work=[[Daily News (New York)]]|date=March 19, 1997}}</ref> Following a special investigation, 61 of the 227 students who graduated from the school had their diplomas revoked due to not satisfying outstanding academic requirements, and over half of the graduates' diplomas were found to be issued under questionable circumstances. The school was found to have awarded credits to students for running errands, working at certain jobs, or for taking classes with little relation to the requirements they satisfied.<ref name=NYTimes-EDSeniorAcad-1998/><ref name=NYCSCI-EDSenAcadReport-1998/>
The other three schools remain in operation; each initially enrolled approximately 600 students, with current enrollment at about 1000 students per school.<ref name=NYTimes-TroubledGiants-GSC-2001 /><ref name=2016NYCSchoolsCatalog>{{cite web|title=2016 New York City High School Directory|url=http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/B0C37C45-E280-434D-9DF7-3251B7F895B0/0/2016HighSchoolDirectory_English.pdf|website=[[New York City Department of Education|schools.nyc.gov]]|publisher=[[New York City Department of Education]]|access-date=4 June 2015|date=2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908010155/http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/B0C37C45-E280-434D-9DF7-3251B7F895B0/0/2016HighSchoolDirectory_English.pdf|archive-date=2015-09-08|url-status=dead}}</ref> The High School for Enterprise, Business, and Technology had a four year graduation rate of 80% in 2012. Progress High School and the School for Legal Studies graduated 55% and 65% of their students that year respectively.<ref name=NYPost-SchoolNumbers-2012>{{cite web|author1=Post Staff Report|author-link=New York Post|title=Every public school by the numbers|url=https://nypost.com/2012/09/09/every-public-school-by-the-numbers-3/|website=[[New York Post|nypost.com]]|publisher=[[New York Post]]|access-date=3 June 2015|date=September 9, 2012}}</ref>
The schools share the athletics program as the Grand Street Wolves, and have won multiple PSAL championships. The baseball team in particular has produced several [[NCAA Division I]] and professional players, most notably [[Dellin Betances]].<ref name=Capital-GrandSt-GW-Baseball-2012 /> The schools also share a large performing arts department including three concert bands, two jazz ensembles, a choir and a comprehensive dance program.<ref name=2016NYCSchoolsCatalog /><ref name="NYTimes-SoundofMusic">{{cite news |last1=Bloch |first1=Sam |last2=Taylor |first2=Kate |title=In New York High Schools, the Sound of Music Is Muted |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/nyregion/nyc-music-high-school.html |access-date=10 May 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 13, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Hanlon|first1=Greg|title=Grand Street Campus holds annual spring arts celebration|url=http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2009/20/williamsburg_courier_family_entertainmentlhwcodm05072009.html|access-date=20 August 2016|work=Brooklyn Daily|date=May 14, 2009|archive-date=1 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001214218/http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2009/20/williamsburg_courier_family_entertainmentlhwcodm05072009.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Advanced Placement]] courses are also shared amongst the three schools.<ref name="NYTimes-SoundofMusic"/>
==Current schools== [[File:Grand Street Campus Athletic Field.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.25|The adjoining athletic field, which is shared by all three schools at the Grand Street Campus]]
===High School of Enterprise, Business, & Technology=== {{Main|High School of Enterprise, Business, & Technology}} The High School of Enterprise, Business, & Technology, abbreviated as EBT, was founded by longtime [[Stuyvesant High School]] teacher Juan S. Mendez, occupying the fourth floor of campus. The school observes a uniformed dress code, and offers four different programs (Computer Science, Business & Finance, Gateway: Math and Science, Music). EBT was the first GSC school to be removed from the list of Schools Under Registration Review (SURR) in 2000, and has had graduation rates both higher than its sister schools and above Brooklyn average.<ref name=NYTimes-TroubledGiants-GSC-2001 /><ref name=2016NYCSchoolsCatalog /><ref name=NYPost-SchoolNumbers-2012 /><ref name=CSA-EBT-Sept2009>{{cite web|last1=Peña|first1=Yuridia|title=Schools Celebrate Removal from State's List of Schools Under Review|url=http://www.csa-nyc.org/pdf/1030/CSANews-Sep-2009.pdf|website=[[Council of School Supervisors & Administrators|csa-nyc.org]]|publisher=[[American Federation of School Administrators]]|access-date=3 June 2015|date=September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150620043252/http://www.csa-nyc.org/pdf/1030/CSANews-Sep-2009.pdf|archive-date=2015-06-20|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=QnsChron-Mendez-2010>{{cite web|last1=Yurcan|first1=Bryan|title=New Queens high school chief named|url=http://www.qchron.com/editions/queenswide/new-queens-high-school-chief-named/article_2b30814d-37bb-55ba-a818-f4645ea674ad.html|website=[[Queens Chronicle|qchron.com]]|publisher=[[Queens Chronicle]]|access-date=3 June 2015|date=September 9, 2010}}</ref><ref name=NYDailyNews-EBT-2008>{{cite web|last1=Monahan|first1=Rachel|title=Big results at small Enterprise, Business and Technology High School|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/big-results-small-enterprise-business-technology-high-school-article-1.328463|website=[[Daily News (New York)|nydailynews.com]]|publisher=[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]|access-date=3 June 2015|date=May 23, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=EBT School Map|url=http://www.ebtbrooklyn.com/Home/ebt/ebt-visual-grid|website=[[High School of Enterprise, Business, & Technology|ebtbrooklyn.com]]|publisher=[[High School of Enterprise, Business, & Technology]], [[New York City Department of Education]]|access-date=26 July 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150801182146/http://www.ebtbrooklyn.com/Home/ebt/ebt-visual-grid|archive-date=1 August 2015}}</ref>
===PROGRESS High School for Professional Careers=== Progress High School was founded in conjunction with the nonprofit organization PROGRESS, Inc. (Puerto Rican Organization for Growth, Research, Education and Self Sufficiency). It features four programs (Medical Professions, Gateway: Math and Science, Instrumental Music, Fine Art) and four [[Advanced Placement]] courses. It was the first GSC school to be removed from New York State's list of failing schools.<ref name=NYTimes-TroubledGiants-GSC-2001 /><ref name=2016NYCSchoolsCatalog /><ref name=PROGRESSHS-TeacherHandbook-2013 /><ref>{{cite web|title=2013 New York City High School Directory: PROGRESS High School for Professional Careers|url=http://btsny.org/files/schools/K87B,Teaching%20Professions,%20Progress%20HS%20for%20Professional%20Careers.pdf|website=btsny.org|publisher=[[New York City Department of Education]]|access-date=25 July 2015|date=2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725121019/http://btsny.org/files/schools/K87B,Teaching%20Professions,%20Progress%20HS%20for%20Professional%20Careers.pdf|archive-date=25 July 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Berger|first1=Joseph|title=In School District, Corruption Fed by Ethnic Division|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/17/nyregion/in-school-district-corruption-fed-by-ethnic-division.html?pagewanted=all|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=19 June 2015|date=May 17, 1999}}</ref>
===East Williamsburg Scholars Academy=== East Williamsburg Scholars Academy, formerly '''High School for Legal Studies''', feature two programs (Legal Studies, Computer Forensics) centered on the area of Law and Government, with a third track for performing arts. Like EBT, Scholars Academy observes a dress code. Located on the third floor of the campus, the school has the smallest student body within the campus.<ref name=2016NYCSchoolsCatalog /><ref name="NYTimes-SoundofMusic"/><ref name=2017NYCSchoolsCatalog>{{cite web|title=2017 New York City High School Directory|url=http://ms447.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2016-2017-High-School-Directory.pdf|website=[[New York City Department of Education|schools.nyc.gov]]|publisher=[[New York City Department of Education]]|access-date=9 May 2022|date=2016}}</ref><ref name=2019NYCSchoolsCatalog>{{cite web|title=2019 New York City High School Directory|url=https://bigappleacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/HSD_2019_ENGLISH_Web.pdf|website=[[New York City Department of Education|schools.nyc.gov]]|publisher=[[New York City Department of Education]]|access-date=9 May 2022|date=2018}}</ref><ref name=2021NYCSchoolsCatalog>{{cite web|title=2021 NYC High School and Specialized High Schools Admissions Guide|url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/docs/default-source/default-document-library/2021-high-school-and-specialized-high-schools-admissions-guide----guide-to-the-shsat|website=[[New York City Department of Education|schools.nyc.gov]]|publisher=[[New York City Department of Education]]|access-date=9 May 2022|date=2021}}</ref> It was the last school to come off the SURR review list in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Medina|first1=Jennifer|title=State Keeping Fewer Schools In the City Under Review|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/24/nyregion/state-keeping-fewer-schools-in-the-city-under-review.html|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=19 June 2015|date=January 24, 2003}}</ref>
In February 1997, prominent lawyer [[Johnnie Cochran]] served as "principal for a day" at the school.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Brozan|first1=Nadine|title=CHRONICLE|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/26/style/chronicle-816582.html|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=19 June 2015|date=February 26, 1997}}</ref>
==Facilities== Today's Grand Street Campus, opened in 1981, is located at Grand Street and [[Bushwick Avenue]] in [[East Williamsburg, Brooklyn|East Williamsburg]], with direct access to the {{NYCS|L}} train of the [[BMT Canarsie Line]].<ref name=2016NYCSchoolsCatalog /> The suburban-style campus was constructed on former commercial and industrial land, at a cost of [[USD$|$]]46 million. The four-story school building with a 4,000 student capacity features two cafeterias, six gymnasiums, nine computer labs, and several [[Industrial arts]] rooms including auto and woodshop. At the southern end of the three-block long campus is the athletic facility, featuring multiple [[tennis]] and [[American handball|handball]] courts, and a large multi-purpose field circumscribed by a running track, featuring dirt cutouts or sliding pits and a pitching mound for [[baseball]]. Initially the field was constructed of [[AstroTurf]], and unusable until repairs were made. The field was renovated in 2003 under the city's Take the Field initiative, replacing the AstroTurf with modern [[artificial turf]], and adding cutouts and a mound for [[softball]] as well as a [[field house]].<ref name=BklynBallparks-TakeTheField>{{cite web|last1=Ross|first1=Andrew|last2=Dyte|first2=David|title=Take The Field|url=http://www.brooklynballparks.com/|website=brooklynballparks.com|access-date=4 June 2015}}</ref><ref name=NYTimes-TroubledGiants-GSC-2001 /><ref name=NYTimes-EDKnightsBaseball-1988>{{cite web|last1=Rimer|first1=Sara|title=Grit and Love Bring Team Closer to Baseball Paradise|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/31/nyregion/grit-and-love-bring-team-closer-to-baseball-paradise.html?pagewanted=all|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=25 May 2015|date=May 31, 1988}}</ref><ref name=NYTimes-EDHS-AssaultonFailure-1987 /><ref name="EDHS-Competency-1981"/><ref name=NYTimes-EDHS-LongClimb-1991>{{cite web|last1=Berger|first1=Joseph|title=A Brooklyn High School Starts on a Long Climb Back|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/18/nyregion/a-brooklyn-high-school-starts-on-a-long-climb-back.html?pagewanted=all|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=25 May 2015|date=May 18, 1991}}</ref><ref name=NYTimes-EDHS-HopesTensions-1992 /><ref name=YuAssociates-GSC>{{cite web|title=GRAND STREET CAMPUS|url=http://www.yu-associates.com/Environmental/grand-street-campus.html|website=yu-associates.com|publisher=YU & Associates, Inc.|access-date=4 June 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150620043442/http://www.yu-associates.com/Environmental/grand-street-campus.html|archive-date=20 June 2015}}</ref><ref name=ParsonsDesign-GSCField-2005>{{cite web|title=The Design Workshop: 1998-2005: Department of Architecture, Interior Design and Lighting|url=http://sce.parsons.edu/files/2010/02/DesignWorkshop1998-2005Book.pdf|website=[[Parsons The New School for Design|parsons.edu]]|publisher=[[Parsons The New School for Design]]|access-date=4 June 2015|location=[[New York City|New York]], [[New York (state)|NY]]|date=2005}}</ref><ref name=YESNtwk-Betances-MemoryLane-2014/>
To update the medical care of Grand Street Campus' students, the Campus has a partnership with nearby [[Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center|Woodhull Hospital]] for an on-campus clinic.<ref name=PROGRESSHS-TeacherHandbook-2013>{{cite web|title=PROGRESS High School For Professional Careers: Teacher Handbook|url=http://www.progresshighschool.org/ourpages/auto/2013/4/4/43477125/teacher%20hand%20book%20final%202013.pdf|website=www.progresshighschool.org|publisher=PROGRESS High School For Professional Careers, [[New York City Department of Education]]|access-date=25 July 2015|date=2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Linderman|first1=Juliet|title=Woodhull Hopes New Campaign Makes Progress Against Teen Suicide|url=http://www.greenpointnews.com/news/woodhull-hopes-new-campaign-makes-progress-against-teen-suicide|website=greenpointnews.com|publisher=Greenpoint Gazette|access-date=3 June 2015|date=November 26, 2008}}{{Dead link|date=July 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==In popular culture== In Betty Smith's 1943 book ''[[A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel)|A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]]'', one of the principal characters, Cornelius "Neeley" Nolan, attends Eastern District High.
==Notable alumni== {{more footnotes needed|section|date=September 2017}}
===Eastern District High School=== * [[Charles Abrams]], urbanist and housing expert, founder of the [[New York City Housing Authority]]<ref name=NYTimes-CAbrams-Obit-1970>{{cite web|last1=Illson|first1=Murray|title=Charles Abrams, Worldwide Housing Expert, Dies; Lawyer, Author, 68, Shaped Outlook of Many Countries Foe of Discrimination Headed Commission Under Harriman|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1970/02/23/76707032.pdf|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=19 June 2015|date=February 23, 1970}}</ref> * [[Red Auerbach]], basketball guard, [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] coach and general manager, Hall of Fame * [[Gertrude Blanch]], mathematician<ref name=":0GB">{{Cite web|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Blanch.html|title=Blanch biography|website=www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk|access-date=2017-02-01}}</ref><ref name="GreenLaDuke2009">{{cite book| first1 = Judy | last1 = Green | author1-link = Judy Green (mathematician) | first2 = Jeanne | last2 = LaDuke | author2-link = Jeanne LaDuke|title=Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's|at=[https://books.google.com/books?id=IRbOAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA144 pp. 144–145]|date=January 2009|publisher=[[American Mathematical Society]]|isbn=978-0-8218-4376-5|title-link= Pioneering Women in American Mathematics}}</ref> * [[Mark Breland]], World Champion Boxer * [[Mel Brooks]], actor, writer, director * [[Henry Foner]] FLM union activist * [[Jack D. Foner]], historian * [[Moe Foner]], [[1199: The National Health Care Workers' Union|1199]] Union activist * [[Philip S. Foner]], [[United States|American]] [[Marxist]] [[organized labor|labor]] historian and teacher * [[Daniel Fuchs]], novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. * [[Lena Gurr]] (1897–1992), artist<ref name="Brooklyn Eagle Jan 1915">{{cite news |title=Honor Graduates at Eastern District |work=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]] |location=Brooklyn, New YUork |date=1915-01-25 |page=5 |access-date=2015-11-21 |url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/54335974/?terms=Honor%2BGraduates%2Bat%2BEastern%2BDistrict|agency=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> * [[Harry Halpern]], [[East Midwood Jewish Center]] rabbi<ref name="be">{{cite news|title=Double Fete Planned By E. Midwood Center|url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/53779178/?terms=Harry%2BHalpern|access-date=21 March 2017|work=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]|agency=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=April 4, 1954|page=7}}</ref> * [[Petri Hawkins-Byrd]], television personality<ref name=OK>{{cite web|url=http://www.okprogram.org/chairman.htm|title=Petri Hawkins-Byrd, Chairman of the O.K. Program|publisher=O.K. Program|access-date=June 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111103050048/http://www.okprogram.org/chairman.htm|archive-date=2011-11-03|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[Vic Hershkowitz]], [[American handball]] player, [[New York City Fire Department|New York City Firefighter]] * [[Homicide (wrestler)|Homicide]], wrestler * [[Stan Isaacs]], [[sportswriter]]<ref name="NYDaily-EDHS-LastGraduation-1998"/> * [[Williams Jerez]], baseball player *[[Marvin Kaplan]] (1927–2016), actor *[[Solly Krieger]] (1909– 1964), middleweight champion boxer * [[Edward S. Lentol]], lawyer and politician<ref>{{cite web|title=Lentol Garden: History|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/lentol-garden/history|publisher=[[New York City Department of Parks and Recreation]]|access-date=21 March 2017}}</ref> * [[Arthur Levitt, Sr.]], lawyer and politician, father of former SEC chairman [[Arthur Levitt|Arthur Levitt, Jr.]]<ref>{{cite news|title=An Exacting Candidate: Arthur Levitt|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/07/08/98441730.pdf|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=June 19, 2015|date=July 8, 1961}}</ref> * [[Gene Malin]], actor * [[Barry Manilow]], singer, composer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wcbsfm.cbslocal.com/2014/10/27/barry-manilow-williamsburg-was-a-dump-music-saved-me-from-getting-beat-up/| title=Barry Manilow: Williamsburg Was A Dump, Music Saved Me From Getting Beat Up|date=October 27, 2014| publisher=[[WCBS-FM]]|location=New York City|access-date=September 11, 2017|archive-date=August 10, 2016 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160810072825/http://wcbsfm.cbslocal.com/2014/10/27/barry-manilow-williamsburg-was-a-dump-music-saved-me-from-getting-beat-up/|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[George Vincent McLaughlin]], banker, public official, [[New York City Police Commissioner]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Opponent of Moses: George Vincent McLaughlin|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/02/25/96698268.pdf|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=June 19, 2015|date=February 25, 1965}}</ref> * [[Memphis Bleek]], rapper<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.xxlmag.com/features/2012/08/19-things-we-learned-from-the-combat-jack-shows-interview-with-memphis-bleek/#8|title=19 Things We Learned From The Combat Jack Show's Interview with Memphis Bleek|work=[[XXL (magazine)|XXL]]|date=24 August 2012}}</ref> * [[Henry Miller]], writer<ref>[[Mary Dearborn|Mary V. Dearborn]], ''The Happiest Man Alive'', New York: [[Simon & Schuster]], 1991, p. 38.</ref> * [[Joseph Papp]], theater producer and founder of the Public Theater * [[Michael E. Reiburn]] (1893–1982), graduate class of 1911,<ref>[http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201915%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201915%20Grayscale%20-%203468.pdf ''HONORS FOR REIZENBERG (sic); Brooklyn Man Chosen for Syracuse Debating Team''] in ''[[Brooklyn Eagle|The Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]'' on April 20, 1915</ref> New York assemblyman and state senator, disbarred lawyer convicted of fraud and theft * [[Frank Rodriguez]], major league baseball player<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thebaseballcube.com/hs/hs_alumni.asp?H=4431 |title=Eastern District (Brooklyn, NY) Baseball |publisher=The Baseball Cube |access-date=February 14, 2011}}</ref> *[[Angela Carlozzi Rossi]] (1901-1977), social worker *[[Nathan D. Shapiro]], lawyer and New York State assemblyman * [[Mark Warnow]], violinist and orchestral composer<ref name="bde-Warnow">{{cite news|title=Swing or Symphonic--It's All Same to Mark Warnow|url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/53863396/?terms=Swing%2Bor%2BSymphonic|newspaper=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]|date=June 21, 1940|location=New York, Brooklyn|page=6|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = December 3, 2015}}</ref>
===Grand Street Campus=== * [[Dellin Betances]] (PROGRESS High School), [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All Star]] pitcher for the [[New York Yankees]]<ref name=YESNtwk-Betances-MemoryLane-2014>{{cite web|title=New York Yankees pitcher Dellin Betances goes down memory lane - Yankees Magazine|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxUmaZQdPTg|website=[[YouTube|youtube.com]]|publisher=[[YES Network]]|access-date=July 25, 2015|date=May 30, 2014}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead YouTube link|date=February 2022}}</ref> *[[José Cuas]], pitcher for the [[Kansas City Royals]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Braziller |first=Zach |date=2012-07-06 |title=Grand Street's Cuas facing Major decision as Blue Jays up ante |url=https://nypost.com/2012/07/06/grand-streets-cuas-facing-major-decision-as-blue-jays-up-ante/ |access-date=2022-03-16 |website=[[New York Post]]}}</ref> *[[Olakunle Fatukasi]], linebacker for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights * [[Williams Jerez]], pitcher for the [[Los Angeles Angels]]<ref name="MassLive-Jerez-Mar2016">{{cite news|last1=Smith|first1=Christopher|title=Williams Jerez's journey to Boston Red Sox spring training 2016 includes: Move to New York, David Ortiz encounter, switch to pitcher|url=http://www.masslive.com/redsox/index.ssf/2016/03/williams_jerezs_journey_to_bos.html|access-date=23 December 2017|work=[[The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts)]]|date=March 2, 2016|location=[[Fort Myers, Florida]]}}</ref>
== Notable faculty == ===Eastern District High School=== *[[Herb Bernstein]], musical composer and record producer, physical education teacher and basketball coach<ref name="Butler2009">{{cite book|author=Patricia Butler|title=Barry Manilow: The Biography: The Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-hV_DdIYnNYC&pg=PT212|access-date=20 March 2017|date=15 December 2009|publisher=[[Omnibus Press]]|isbn=978-0-85712-101-1|pages=212–}}</ref> *[[Saul Rogovin]], former [[Major League Baseball|major league]] pitcher, 1951 AL ERA leader, English teacher for eight years until 1990.<ref>{{cite web|title=SPORTS PEOPLE: BASEBALL; Rogovin Is Hospitalized in New York|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/26/sports/sports-people-baseball-rogovin-is-hospitalized-in-new-york.html|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=18 June 2015|date=April 26, 1994}}</ref> *[[Eulalie Spence]], a [[Harlem Renaissance]] playwright, taught English, [[Drama]], and [[elocution]] at Eastern District High School from 1927 to 1938; mentor to [[Joseph Papp]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=w9CJ0ngs62IC&dq=eulalie+spence+biography&pg=PA429 Excerpt from "African American Dramatists: An A to Z Guide." Edited by Emmanuel Sampath Nelson.] From ''Google Books''. Retrieved February 17, 2013.</ref><ref name=act>Perkins, Kathy A. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2fsi7SXmkJEC&q=eulalie+spence Black Female Playwrights: An Anthology of Plays Before 1950.] [[Bloomington, IN]]: [[Indiana University Press]], 1990. {{ISBN|0253113660}}. ''Google Books.'' Retrieved October 27, 2012.</ref>
===Grand Street Campus=== *[[Rebecca Pawel]] ([[High School of Enterprise, Business, & Technology|EBT High School]]), novelist and winner of the 2004 [[Edgar Award]] for "Best First Novel", teaches English and occasionally Spanish.<ref name="nysun">{{cite news |last=Marritz |first=Ilya |date=2004-12-21 |url=http://www.nysun.com/article/6587 |title=This Brooklyn Teacher has a Mysterious Second Career |newspaper=[[The New York Sun]] |access-date=2007-04-23}}</ref>
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==References== {{Reflist|3}}
== External links == * [http://www.ebtbrooklyn.com/ EBT High School Website] * [http://www.progresshighschool.org/ PROGRESS High School Website] * [http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/14/K474/default.htm PROGRESS High School DOE portal] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20130621200714/http://www.thesls.net/main/ School for Legal Studies Website] * [http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/14/K477/default.htm School for Legal Studies DOE portal] * [http://www.greatschools.org/new-york/brooklyn/2841-High-School-For-Legal-Studies/ High School for Legal Studies at greatschools.org] {{Education in Brooklyn}} {{Authority control}}
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