George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School

Public school in New York City

For other high schools named Westinghouse, see Westinghouse 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.

Notable alumni

Joe Pignatano, MLB catcher
Larry McNeill, NBA player
Roosevelt Chapman, basketball player and University of Dayton standout
Michael K. Williams, actor
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
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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Downtown Brooklyn

Brooklyn, New York City

Green spaces and plazas

Education

Religion

Culture

Performance venues	Brooklyn Academy of Music Grand Opera House (former) Mark Morris Dance Center Paramount Theater Theatre for a New Audience
Restaurants	Gage and Tollner Junior's
Museums	New York Transit Museum

Other buildings

Transportation

Subway stations	Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center Borough Hall/Court Street DeKalb Avenue Hoyt Street Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets Jay Street–MetroTech Nevins Street
Streets	Abolitionist Place Albee Square Atlantic Avenue DeKalb Avenue Flatbush Avenue Fulton Street Times Plaza

Government

Related topics

Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce

See also: Brooklyn Community Board 2

Westinghouse

Westinghouse Electric
Corp. (1886–2000)

Divisions	Advanced Energy Astronuclear Aviation Baldwin Broadcasting Combustion Turbine New England White-Westinghouse
Subsidiaries	British Westinghouse Bryant Infinity
Successors	CBS Corporation Viacom (1952–2006) Viacom (2005–2019) Paramount Global Westinghouse Electronics Westinghouse Licensing Westinghouse Electric Company
Products	A2W reactor Locomotives (list) S2W reactor Transit Expressway Revenue Line
People	George Westinghouse
Related topics	Electrification of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad George Westinghouse Award George Westinghouse Medal Regeneron Science Talent Search Westinghouse Air Brake Building Westinghouse Tower Westinghouse Works, 1904

Related companies

Education in Brooklyn

Public schools

Closed	Bay Ridge HS Boys HS Canarsie HS Eastern District HS Girls HS Erasmus Hall HS Thomas Jefferson HS Lafayette HS Franklin K. Lane HS Metropolitan Corporate Acad Prospect HS Sheepshead Bay HS South Shore HS Samuel J. Tilden HS George W. Wingate HS

Private schools

Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn schools

Closed	Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School Bishop Kearney HS Brooklyn Prep Catherine McAuley High School St. Joseph HS

Other

Higher education

Boricua College Brooklyn Campus
Brooklyn College
- College Center for Computer Music
Long Island
- Arnold and Marie Schwartz Pharmacy
NYU Tandon
Pratt

Brooklyn Public Library

Closed	Business & Career Library

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