Abraham Lincoln High School (New York) Totally Explained

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Abraham Lincoln High School is a public high school located at 2800 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York, and is part of Region 7 in the New York City Department of Education. The principal is Ari Hoogenboom, and the school has 2581 students in grades 9 through 12.
Built in 1929, Lincoln has graduated several Nobel Prize winners and famous musicians, authors, and sports players. In 1955, Lincoln students formed the doo-wop group The Tokens, best known for their #1 Pop Chart Hit The Lion Sleeps Tonight. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg held a press conference at Lincoln on April 13 2006, to announce that NYPD officers would begin random searches for weapons on the school campus with portable scanning devices.

Notable Alumni

Marv Albert, class of 1959, television sportscaster
Ken Auletta, class of 1957, author
Aegina Berg Barnes, class of 1982, CUNY educator; schoolteacher; American Arbitration Association's alternate delegate to the NYS United Teachers & AFT Convention ((External Link)) and wife of British actor Nicholas Barnes aka "Nick Barnes Berg" ((External Link), (External Link))
Paul Berg, class of 1943, won Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980
Mel Brooks, actor, writer, director, and comedy producer
Neil Diamond, class of 1958, singer/songwriter
Rachel Eljashev, class of 1983, ophthalmologist and writer; grand-niece of Ba'al Machshavot (Dr. Israel Isidor Elyashev, 1873-1924, a neurologist who was the first Yiddish- language literary critic, who was appointed by Theodor Herzl to translate Altneuland from German into Yiddish)
Nelson Figueroa, class of 1992, professional baseball player.
John Forsythe, class of 1934, actor
Sam Goldaper, class of 1940, sportswriter for The New York Times
Louis Gossett, class of 1954, actor
Howard Greenfield, songwriter
Joseph Heller, class of 1941, author of Catch-22
Raul Hilberg, class of 1942, historian of genocide
Elizabeth Holtzman, class of 1958, Democratic congresswoman; the youngest woman elected to serve in the United States House of Representatives
Jerome Karle, class of 1933, won Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985
Harvey Keitel, film actor
Arthur Kornberg, class of 1933, won Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1959
Stephon Marbury, class of 1995, professional basketball player (NBA)
Lee Mazzilli, class of 1973, former professional baseball player, manager and coach
Hank Medress, singer in the group the Tokens, best known for "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
Paula Michaels, class of 1983, academic, author and educator at the University of Iowa at Iowa City on Stalinism, Soviet medicine, and post-Soviet women (specializing in Kazakhstan; see (External Link))
Arthur Miller, class of 1932, author and playwright, wrote, among many other works, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible
Larry Namer, class of 1966, Founder of E! Entertainment TV network
Buddy Rich, jazz drummer and bandleader
Neil Sedaka, class of 1956, pop singer, pianist, and songwriter
Alex Steinweiss, class of 1934, graphic designer
Sebastian Telfair, class of 2004, professional basketball player (NBA)
The Tokens, circa 1955, pop group, famous for their #1 Song Hit The Lion Sleeps Tonight

Fictional Alumni

Monica Geller from the show Friends; at Lincoln, known as the fat kid who tagged along with Rachel; played in the band (with a specially made uniform); class of 1988

Ross Geller from the show Friends; at Lincoln, Monica's geeky older brother; had a crush on underclassmen Rachel Green since keyboarding freshman year; class of 1987

Rachel Green, also from the show Friends; at Lincoln, she was one of the popular kids and often dated a minor character named Chip Matthews; class of 1988

Jesus Shuttlesworth, a talented basketball player in the 1998 Spike Lee movie, He Got Game.Further Information

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