Abraham Lincoln High School (New York)

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Abraham Lincoln High School is a public high school located at 2800 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York, and educates grades 9 through 12. It is part of Region 7 in the New York City Department of Education. The current principal is Ari Hoogenboom, and the school has an enrollment of 2581 students.

Built over 75 years ago, Lincoln has graduated several Nobel Prize winners and famous musicians, authors, and sports players. In 1955, The American doo-wop group The Tokens, best known for "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", was formed by then current Lincoln students.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg held a press conference at Lincoln on April 13, 2006, to announce that NYPD officers will begin to conduct random searches for weapons on school campuses with portable scanning devices.["NYC Police To Randomly Scan Students For Weapons"], WNBC, April 13, 2006. Accessed June 11, 2006.

Notable Alumni

• Arthur Miller, class of 1932, author and playwrite, wrote Death of a Salesman and The Crucible
• Jerome Karle, class of 1933, won Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985
• Arthur Kornberg, class of 1933, won Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1959
• John Forsythe, class of 1934, actor
• Alex Steinweiss, class of 1934, graphic designer
• Buddy Rich, jazz drummer and bandleader
• Shelly Manne, jazz drummer
• Joseph Heller, class of 1941, author of Catch-22
• Raul Hilberg, class of 1942, historian of genocide
• Paul Berg, class of 1943, won Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980
• Mel Brooks, actor, writer, director, and comedy producer
• Louis Gossett, class of 1954, actor
• Harvey Keitel, actor
• Neil Sedaka, class of 1956, pop singer, pianist, and songwriter
• Howard Greenfield, songwriter
• Carole King, singer/songwriter
• Ken Auletta, class of 1957, author
• Neil Diamond, class of 1958, singer/songwriter
• Elizabeth Holtzman, class of 1958, Democratic congresswoman, youngest women to serve in Congress
• Marv Albert, class of 1959, television sportscaster
• Lee Mazzilli, class of 1973, professional baseball player
• Stephon Marbury, professional basketball player
• Sebastian Telfair, professional basketball player

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