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Erasmus Hall Campus High School is a four-year public high school
Public high school

A public high school is a secondary school that is financed by tax revenues and other government-collected revenues, and administered exclusively by, and at the discretion of, state and local officials....
 in the New York City
New York City

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 borough
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 of Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
, operated as part of the New York City Department of Education
New York City Department of Education

The New York City Department of Education is the branch of municipal government in New York City that manages the city's public school system. These schools form the largest school system in the United States, with over 1.1 million students taught in more than 1,400 separate schools....
. It primarily serves the 9th to 12th grades. It is located on the east side of Flatbush Avenue slightly south of Church Avenue in the community of Flatbush
Flatbush, Brooklyn

Flatbush is a community of the Political subdivisions of New York State of Brooklyn, a part of New York City, consisting of several neighborhoods....
. It was named for Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was a Netherlands Renaissance humanist and Roman Catholic Church Christian theology. His scholarly name Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus comprises the following three elements: the Latin noun desiderium ; the Greek adjective ???s???? meaning "desired", and, in the form Erasmus, also the name of a St....
.

current school consists of four buildings built between 1903 and 1940 in the Collegiate Gothic style and designed by C.






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Erasmus Hall Campus High School is a four-year public high school
Public high school

A public high school is a secondary school that is financed by tax revenues and other government-collected revenues, and administered exclusively by, and at the discretion of, state and local officials....
 in the New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 borough
Borough (New York City)

New York City is one of the largest cities in the world, and it is segmented into boroughs for various reasons. A borough is a unique form of government which administers the five fundamental constituent parts that make up the History of New York City ....
 of Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
, operated as part of the New York City Department of Education
New York City Department of Education

The New York City Department of Education is the branch of municipal government in New York City that manages the city's public school system. These schools form the largest school system in the United States, with over 1.1 million students taught in more than 1,400 separate schools....
. It primarily serves the 9th to 12th grades. It is located on the east side of Flatbush Avenue slightly south of Church Avenue in the community of Flatbush
Flatbush, Brooklyn

Flatbush is a community of the Political subdivisions of New York State of Brooklyn, a part of New York City, consisting of several neighborhoods....
. It was named for Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was a Netherlands Renaissance humanist and Roman Catholic Church Christian theology. His scholarly name Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus comprises the following three elements: the Latin noun desiderium ; the Greek adjective ???s???? meaning "desired", and, in the form Erasmus, also the name of a St....
.

Description and history

The current school consists of four buildings built between 1903 and 1940 in the Collegiate Gothic style and designed by C. B. J. Snyder, New York City's school architect. The four buildings form a quadrangle
Quadrangle (architecture)

In architecture, a quadrangle is a space or courtyard, usually rectangular in plan, the sides of which are entirely or mainly occupied by parts of a large building....
 around a campus
Campus

A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes library, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings....
 green. In the center of that green is the original building of the Erasmus Hall Academy, the original school building, erected in 1786 as a wood structure in the Georgian/Federal style and now used as a museum of education. The original building was designated a City Landmark
List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Brooklyn

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 in 1966, the modern in 2003.

The academy's founders included Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton was the first Secretary of the Treasury, a Founding Fathers of the United States, economist, and political philosopher. He led calls for the Philadelphia Convention, was one of America's first Constitutional lawyers, and cowrote the Federalist Papers, a primary source for Constitutional interpretation....
 and former United States vice-president Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr

Aaron Burr, Jr. was an United States politician, American Revolutionary War hero, and adventurer. He served as the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States , under Thomas Jefferson....
, who later killed Hamilton in a famous duel in Weehawken, New Jersey
New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....
. Other founders included John Jay
John Jay

John Jay was an United States politician, statesman, Patriot , diplomat, a Founding Fathers of the United States, President of the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1779 and, from 1789 to 1795, the first Chief Justice of the United States....
 and Governor George Clinton. The two primary donors that were most instrumental in founding the school were Senator John Vanderbilt and Peter Lefferts. Thanks to these men's efforts the academy stands the third oldest in the state.

Famous alumni

Erasmus has had a number of famous and accomplished alumni
Alumnus

An alumnus according to the American Heritage Dictionary is "a male graduate or former student of a school, college, or university." In addition, an alumna is "a female graduate or former student of a school, college, or university." If a group includes more than one gender, even if there is only one male, the plural form alumni i...
. Some of the better known, including (class year), are listed below.

Pre-20th century

  • John M. Berrien
    John M. Berrien

    John MacPherson Berrien of Georgia was a United States Senate and Andrew Jackson's Attorney General of the United States.Born at Rocky Hill, New Jersey, New Jersey, to a family of Huguenot ancestry, Berrien moved with his parents to Savannah, Georgia, in 1782; was graduated from Princeton College in 1796; studied law in Savannah; was adm...
    , (1793); Attorney General of the United States and Senator.
  • John W. Hunter
    John W. Hunter

    John Ward Hunter was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Bedford, New York , he received a liberal schooling and was a clerk in a wholesale grocery store in New York City in 1824....
    , (1824); New York State Senator, Congressman, and mayor of Brooklyn.
  • Morris Smith Miller, (1794); Congressman and First Judge of Oneida County.
  • George M. Troup, (1792); Governor of Georgia.


20th century

  • Bob Arum
    Bob Arum

    Robert "Bob" Arum is professional boxing promoter. He also worked for the US Attorneys Office for the southern district of New York, in the Tax division....
    , boxing promoter.
  • Joseph Barbera
    Joseph Barbera

    Joseph Roland "Joe" Barbera ; was an influential American animator, film director, Film producer, storyboard artist, and cartoonist, whose movie and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the twentieth century....
    , (1928); artist; cartoonist; co-creator of Tom & Jerry
    Tom and Jerry (MGM)

    Tom and Jerry is a series of animated theatrical short subject created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that centered on a never-ending rivalry between a housecat and a mouse whose chases and battles often involved comic violence....
     cartoons.
  • Jeff Barry
    Jeff Barry

    Jeff Barry is an United States popular music songwriter, singer, and record producer.Barry was born Joel Adelberg in Brooklyn, New York City....
     (Joel Adelberg), (1955); songwriter/producer; Songwriters Hall of Fame
    Songwriters Hall of Fame

    The Songwriters Hall of Fame is an arm of the National Academy of Popular Music. It was founded in 1969 by songwriter Johnny Mercer and music publishers Abe Olman and Howie Richmond....
     member
  • Karen Bernod
    Karen Bernod

    Karen Bernod is an American born R&B vocalist, songwriter, and producer.Karen is best known for her unique vocal harmonies as a background singer for Chaka Khan, Erykah Badu, C&C Music Factory and D'Angelo....
    ; singer
  • Phillip Brutus
    Phillip Brutus

    Phillip J. Brutus is a former member of the Florida House of Representatives.Brutus graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, New York....
    ; Florida
    Florida

    Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....
     politician
  • Jeff Chandler
    Jeff Chandler (actor)

    Jeff Chandler was an United States film actor and singer in the 1950s....
     (Ira Grossel), (1935); actor
  • Betty Comden
    Betty Comden

    Betty Comden , was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, librettos, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful musical films and Broadway theatre shows of the mid-20th century....
    , (1933); playwright; Broadway musical songwriter with Adolph Green
    Adolph Green

    Adolph Green was an United States lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, particularly as part of Arthur Freed's production unit at Metro Goldwyn Mayer, during the genre's heyday....
  • Jane Cowl
    Jane Cowl

    Jane Cowl was born Grace Bailey in Boston, Massachusetts. She was a successful early American film and Theatre actress and playwright....
    , (1902); actress, playwright (original name Grace Bailey).
  • Billy Cunningham
    Billy Cunningham

    William John "Billy" Cunningham is an American former professional basketball player and coach, who was nicknamed the Kangaroo Kid....
    , (1961); player and coach, Philadelphia '76ers basketball team.
  • Jim Cymbala (1960); pastor of Brooklyn Tabernacle; author of "Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire"
  • Jon Cypher
    Jon Cypher

    Jon Cypher is an United States actor born in New York City, January 13, 1932. He graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in 1949 and Brooklyn College in 1953....
    , (1949); actor (Hill Street Blues
    Hill Street Blues

    Hill Street Blues is a serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. It is currently being aired on AmericanLife TV Network on Sunday nights in the United States, and on weekday afternoons on digital network More 4 in the United Kingdom....
    )
  • Al Davis
    Al Davis

    Allen "Al" Davis is a American football corporate officer, who currently serves as the principal owner of the National Football League Oakland Raiders....
    ; Oakland Raiders
    Oakland Raiders

    The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in the city of Oakland, California. They currently play in the AFC West of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
     owner, Pro Football Hall of Fame
    Pro Football Hall of Fame

    The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame of the National Football League . It opened in Canton, Ohio, Ohio, United States, on September 7 1963 with 17 charter inductees....
     member.
  • Clive Davis
    Clive Davis

    Clive Jay Davis is an American record producer, executive and a leading music executive. He has won multiple Grammy awards and is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....
    ; Grammy Award
    Grammy Award

    The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
     winning record producer; Chairman & CEO BMG
    BMG

    Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008....
     North America; founder of Arista Records
    Arista Records

    Arista Records is an United States record label. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operates under the RCA Records....
  • Neil Diamond
    Neil Diamond

    Neil Leslie Diamond is an United States of America singer-songwriter.Neil Diamond is one of pop music's most enduring and successful singer-songwriters....
    , attended Erasmus from 1954-1956; singer/songwriter.
  • Will Downing
    Will Downing

    Will Downing , is an United States singer-songwriter and record producer. Downing's recording career has won a loyal audience of contemporary jazz and R&B fans with albums and concerts that have showcased his rich baritone vocals and unique interpretations of R&B and pop classics that stretches back to the early 1980s....
    , (1981); singer
  • Norm Drucker
    Norm Drucker

    Norm Drucker was a major influence in professional basketball officiating for over thirty-five years.He refereed in the National Basketball Association from 1953 to 1969....
    , professional basketball official.
  • Bobby Fischer
    Bobby Fischer

    Robert James "Bobby" Fischer was an United States and Icelandic chess Grandmaster , and the eleventh World Chess Champion.As a teenager, Fischer became famous as a chess prodigy....
    , dropped out in 1960; chess champion.
  • Jim Florio,(1964); former Governor of New Jersey
    Governor of New Jersey

    The Governor of New Jersey is the chief executive of the U.S. state of New Jersey. The current holder of that office is Jon Corzine, who re-assumed executive powers on May 7, 2007 from acting Gov....
    .
  • Deborah Grabien
    Deborah Grabien

    Deborah Grabien is an United States novelist and essayist. Her works cross several genres, including crime fiction, thriller, Utopian and dystopian fiction, etc....
    , (circa 1971); novelist/essayist.
  • Earl G. Graves
    Earl G. Graves

    Earl Gilbert Graves, Sr. is an United States author, publisher, entrepreneur, philanthropist and founder of Black Enterprise magazine. He currently resides in Scarsdale, New York....
    , (1952); publisher of Black Enterprise
    Black Enterprise

    Black Enterprise is a monthly United States magazine which describes itself as "the premier business news and investment resource for African Americans" and claims a readership of 3.7 million....
     magazine
  • Arno Gruen
    Arno Gruen

    Arno Gruen is a SwitzerlandGermany psychologist and psychoanalyst....
    , psychoanalyst, psychologist and writer
  • Susan Hayward
    Susan Hayward

    Susan Hayward was an American actress.After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward travelled to Hollywood in 1937 in the hope of playing the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind ....
     (Edythe Marrenner), Hollywood actress.
  • Eleanor Holm
    Eleanor Holm

    Eleanor G. Holm was an United States swimming. An Olympic champion, she is best known for having been suspended from the 1936 Olympic team....
    , (1932); Olympic
    Olympic Games

    The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
     swimmer
  • Moe Howard
    Moe Howard

    Moe Howard was an United States comedian, best known as the leader of the Three Stooges, the slapstick comedy team who starred in motion pictures and television for four decades....
    , (Moses Harry Horwitz), (dropped out after two months, 1915) member of the Three Stooges
    Three Stooges

    The Three Stooges was an American vaudeville and comedy act of the early to mid?20th century best known for their numerous short subject films....
     comedy team
  • Waite Hoyt
    Waite Hoyt

    Waite Charles Hoyt was an United States right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, one of the dominant pitchers of the 1920s, and the winningest pitcher for the New York Yankees during that decade....
    ; Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher for the New York Yankees
    New York Yankees

    The New York Yankees are a professional baseball based in the Borough of the Bronx, in New York City, New York and are a member of the American League East of Major League Baseball's American League....
     and long-time broadcaster for the Cincinnati Reds
    Cincinnati Reds

    The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. They are members of the National League Central of the National League....
    .
  • Stanley Edgar Hyman
    Stanley Edgar Hyman

    Stanley Edgar Hyman was a literary critic who wrote primarily about critical methods: the distinct strategies critics use in approaching literary Writing....
    , (circa 1933); literary critic; husband of Shirley Jackson
    Shirley Jackson

    Shirley Jackson was an influential United States author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years....
    .
  • Marty Ingels
    Marty Ingels

    Marty Ingels is an actor, comedian, theatrical agent, and, by many, best known as the voice of many cartoon characters and commercials. He is the son of Jacob and Minnie Ingerman....
    , comedian; husband of Shirley Jones
    Shirley Jones

    Shirley Mae Jones is an United States singer and character actress of stage , film and television. She starred as wholesome characters in a number of well-known musical films, such as Oklahoma , Carousel , and The Music Man ....
    .
  • Ned Irish
    Ned Irish

    Edward S. "Ned" Irish was a basketball promoter and one of the key figures in popularizing professional basketball. He was the president of the New York Knicks from 1946 to 1974....
    ; Founder of the New York Knicks
    New York Knicks

    The New York Knickerbockers are a professional basketball team based in New York City. The team plays in the National Basketball Association ....
    , member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
    Basketball Hall of Fame

    The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame honors exceptional basketball players, all-time great coaches, Referee#basketball, executives, and other major contributors to the game....
    .
  • Dave Jones, (1978); drummer, Hell's Bells.
  • Roger Kahn
    Roger Kahn

    Roger Kahn is one of United States's leading writers about sport - especially baseball.His classic 1972 memoir, The Boys of Summer , examines his relationship with his father seen through the prism of their shared affection for the Brooklyn Dodgers, a team Kahn covered as a young reporter for the New York Herald Tribune....
    , (1945); sportswriter, author of several books including The Boys of Summer.
  • Dr. Eric Kandel, (1944); winner of Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology, 2000.
  • Lainie Kazan
    Lainie Kazan

    Lainie Kazan is an United States actress and singer....
     (Lainie Levine), (1958); Broadway, film and TV actress and singer
  • Dorothy Kilgallen
    Dorothy Kilgallen

    Dorothy Mae Kilgallen was an United States journalist and television game show panelist known nationally for her coverage of the Sam Sheppard trial, her syndicated newspaper column, The Voice of Broadway, and her role as panelist on the television game show What's My Line?....
    , (1932); journalist and TV celebrity.
  • Bernie Kopell
    Bernie Kopell

    Bernard Morton "Bernie" Kopell is an American television actor who portrayed Alan-a-Dale in When Things Were Rotten, Jerry Bauman in That Girl, Siegfried in Get Smart, Louie Pallucci in The Doris Day Show, and Dr....
    , (1953); actor, "Doc" on TV series The Love Boat
    The Love Boat

    The Love Boat is an United States television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the American Broadcasting Company from 1977 in television until 1986 in television....
    .
  • Dennis Lambert, (1964); Singer-songwriter/record producer - Subject of recent award-winning documentary "Of All the Things"
  • Samuel LeFrak, (1936); real estate developer.
  • Abby Lippman, Women's Health
    Women's health

    Women's health refers to health issues specific to human female anatomy. These often relate to structures such as female genitalia and breasts or to conditions caused by hormones specific to, or most notable in, females....
     Activist and Professor of Epidemiology, McGill University
    McGill University

    McGill University is a Public university#Canada located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university....
    .
  • Sid Luckman
    Sid Luckman

    Sidney Luckman, known as Sid Luckman, was an American football quarterback for the Chicago Bears from 1939 to 1950. During his 12 seasons with the Bears he led them to four NFL List of NFL champions....
    , (1935); football champion with the Chicago Bears
    Chicago Bears

    The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the NFC North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
    .
  • Bernard Malamud
    Bernard Malamud

    Bernard Malamud was an author of novels and short stories. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the great United States Jewish authors of the 20th century....
    , (1932); author and educator; Pulitzer Prize for The Fixer
    The Fixer (Malamud novel)

    The Fixer is a 1966 novel by Bernard Malamud which is inspired by the true story of Menahem Mendel Beilis, an unjustly imprisoned Jew in Tsarist Russia....
    , 1967, The Magic Barrel
    The Magic Barrel

    The Magic Barrel is a collection of thirteen short stories written by Bernard Malamud and published in 1958. It won the 1959 National Book Award for fiction....
    , 1958.
  • Daniel Mann
    Daniel Mann

    Daniel Mann, also known as Daniel Chugerman , was an United States film and television Film director.Daniel Mann was born in Brooklyn, New York....
    , attended in 1920s, transferred before graduating; film and television director.
  • Kedar Massenburg, (1981); former CEO/President of Motown Records
    Motown Records

    Motown Records is a record label originally based in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. on January 12, 1959 as Tamla Records, the company was incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960....
  • Dr. Barbara McClintock
    Barbara McClintock

    Barbara McClintock , the 1983 Nobel Laureate in Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, was an American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogenetics....
    , (1919); winner of Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1983.
  • Stephanie Mills
    Stephanie Mills

    Stephanie Mills to Joseph Mills and Christine Mills . Mills is a United States Grammy Award-winning rhythm and blues and soul music singer, a former Broadway theatre star, and was originally given the title as "the little girl with the big voice."...
    , (1977); actress/singer.
  • Don Most
    Don Most

    Don Most is an United States actor best known for his role as Ralph Malph on the long-running television series Happy Days....
    , (1970); actor, TV series, Happy Days
    Happy Days

    Happy Days is an Television in the United States television sitcom that originally aired from 1974 in television to 1984 in television on American Broadcasting Company....
    .
  • Albert "Sammy" Narvaez, (1980 dropout); First Hispanic Marine Sergeant Major, Security Head for Trump Enterprises
  • Don K. Reed, (1960): disc jockey
    Disc jockey

    A disc jockey is a person who selects and plays sound recording for an audience. Originally, disk referred to phonograph records, while disc refers to the Compact Disc, and has become the more common spelling....
    , hosted "The Doo-Wop Shop" radio show on New York oldies
    Oldies

    Oldies is a term commonly used to describe a radio format that concentrates on a period 15 to 55 years before the present day.In the 1980s and 1990s, "oldies" meant the 15 years from the birth of rock n roll to the beginning of the singer-songwriter era of the early 1970s, or about 1955 to 1971....
     station WCBS-FM
    WCBS-FM

    WCBS-FM is a radio station in New York City, owned by CBS Radio. The station's studios were located inside the CBS Building at 51 West 52nd Street until August 2000, and within the Viacom Building at 1515 Broadway in the Times Square district from August 2000 until June 2008....
    .
  • Jerry Reinsdorf
    Jerry Reinsdorf

    Jerry M. Reinsdorf is a Certified Public Accountant, lawyer, and the majority owner of both the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Bulls. He started his professional life as a tax attorney with the Internal Revenue Service....
    , (1953); partial owner of the Chicago Bulls
    Chicago Bulls

    The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois, playing in the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association ....
     and Chicago White Sox
    Chicago White Sox

    The Chicago White Sox are a Major North American professional sports teams baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. The White Sox presently play in the American League's American League Central in Major League Baseball....
    .
  • Lewis Rolland, MD, (1942); expert on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is a progressive, usually fatal, neurodegenerative disease caused by the degeneration of motor neurons, the nerve cells in the central nervous system that control voluntary muscle movement....
     (ALS, known as Lou Gehrig
    Lou Gehrig

    Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig , born Ludwig Heinrich Gehrig, was an United States Major League Baseball player in the 1920s and 1930s, chiefly remembered for his prowess as a hitter and the longevity of his consecutive games played record, and the pathos of his tearful farewell from baseball at age 36, when he was stricken with a fatal...
    's Disease).
  • Mike Rosen
    Mike Rosen

    Michael "Mike" Rosen is the host of The Mike Rosen Show on talk radio station KOA in Denver, Colorado, and a weekly opinion columnist for the Rocky Mountain News newspaper....
    , (1960) Denver radio talk show host
  • Robert Rosen, (1970); author of the best-selling biography Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon
    Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon

    Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon, first published in 2000 and written by New York journalist Robert Rosen , who in 1981 had access to John Lennon?s diaries, is a controversial account of the ex-The Beatles?s last five years....
    .
  • Sam Rutigliano
    Sam Rutigliano

    Sam Rutigliano is a former National Football League head coach.Rutigliano, the son of immigrants, played high school football at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn....
    , former NFL head coach.
  • Arthur M. Sackler
    Arthur M. Sackler

    Arthur M. Sackler was an American psychiatrist, entrepreneur and philanthropist.He attended New York University School of Medicine and graduated with an M.D....
    , MD (1931); art historian and collector; Collection of African and Ancient Art is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Metropolitan Museum of Art

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile, New York City in New York City, USA....
     and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
    Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

    The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is a art gallery of Asian art located in Washington, DC, United States, part of the Smithsonian Institution. The Sackler is one of two galleries of the National Museum of Asian Art, the other being the Freer Gallery....
     of the Smithsonian Institution.
  • Brigadier General Guy Sands-Pingot
    Guy Sands-Pingot

    Guy Ludvic Sands-Pingot is an United States brigadier general in the United States Army. He serves as commander of the 353rd Civil Affairs Command located at Fort Wadsworth, New York....
    , (1974); U.S. Army Officer
  • Beverly Sills
    Beverly Sills

    Beverly Sills was an American operatic soprano who enjoyed success in the 1960s and 1970s. She was famous for her performances in coloratura soprano roles in operas around the world and on recordings....
    , (Belle Miriam Silverman) coloratura
    Coloratura

    Coloratura has several meanings. The word derives from the Italian colorare or colorazione .The term normally refers to a soprano who has the vocal ability to produce notes above C#6 and whose tessitura is A4-A5 or higher ....
     opera singer, attended Erasmus in the mid-1940s and transferred before graduating.
  • Robert Silverberg
    Robert Silverberg

    Robert Silverberg is a prolific United States author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both the Hugo Award and Nebula Awards....
    , (1952); novelist.
  • Special Ed
    Special ed

    Special ed may refer to:*Special education, a form of alternative education*Special Ed, a New York based rapper from the late 1980s and early 1990s...
     (Edward Archer), rapper who mentions Erasmus Hall on his album Youngest in Charge
    Youngest in Charge

    Youngest in Charge is the debut album from the then-15-year-old Brooklynite Hip hop music artist Special Ed. The album had sold more than 500,000 copies....
    .
  • Melodee M. Spevack
    Melodee Spevack

    Melodee M. Spevack is a voice actress and vice president of the Nevada-based Voxworks voice-acting corporation. She is also credited as Sonja S....
     (1970); actress, writer, anime voice performer
  • Mickey Spillane
    Mickey Spillane

    Frank Morrison Spillane , better known as Mickey Spillane, was an United States author of crime fiction, many featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer....
     (Morrison Spillane), (1936); author of detective and mystery fiction.
  • Barbara Stanwyck
    Barbara Stanwyck

    Barbara Stanwyck was an United States actor, a star of film and television, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors such as Cecil B....
     (Ruby Stevens), (c. 1925); actress.
  • Barbra Streisand
    Barbra Streisand

    Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
     (Barbara Joan Streisand), (1959); actress, singer, director, producer.
  • Norma Talmadge
    Norma Talmadge

    Norma Talmadge was an United States actress and film producer of the silent film era. A major box office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among the most popular idols of the American screen....
    , (c. 1911); silent film
    Silent film

    A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized dialogue was only made possible in the late 1920s with the introduction of the Vitaphone system....
     star
  • Cheryl Toussaint
    Cheryl Toussaint

    Cheryl Renee Toussaint is an the United States athlete who mainly competed in the 800 metres.She grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto of Brooklyn, New York....
    , (1970); athlete; Olympic gold medalist, 1972.
  • Eli Wallach
    Eli Wallach

    Eli Herschel Wallach is an United States film, TV and stage actor, who gained fame in the late 1950. For his performance in Baby Doll he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe nomination....
    , (1932); actor
  • Mae West
    Mae West

    Mae West was an United States actor, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol.Known for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in Vaudeville and on the theatre in New York City before moving to Hollywood to become a comedienne, actress and writer in the film industry....
    , (1893); actress, comedienne, playwright.
  • D. Train
    D. Train

    D. Train was an United States Rhythm and blues duet , who scored several significant hit records on both the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs record chart during the first half of the 1980s....
    , (James Williams) (1980); singer/songwriter
  • Marian Winters
    Marian Winters

    Marian Winters was an United States actress of stage film and television....
    , Broadway
    Broadway theatre

    Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
     actress


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