Haaren High School was an American high school located in

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. The school was noted for its vocational program including classes focusing on internal combustion engines. The facility was constructed in 1903 to house

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. When that school relocated in 1927, it became home to Haaren High School (named for educator

John Henry Haaren John Henry Haaren (born August 13, 1855, New York, New York – d. September 23, 1916, Brooklyn, New York) was an American educator and historian. Haaren's father was German and his mother Irish and English. He studied under Prof. N. M. Butl ...

) until that school closed in the late 1970s. After developers announced plans to renovate the building to house offices, production studios and retail,

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purchased the structure in 1988 and remodeled it to house offices, a library, classrooms and other facilities.

Notable alumni

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, Irish poet * Robert García, New York Assemblyman and congressman *

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, 1950s Soviet spy *Joe Hayes, Taekwondo fighter and champion * Lynbert Johnson, NBA player *

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(1917–1997), actor *

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poet *

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'', October 23, 2019. Accessed October 23, 2019. "He began studying the saxophone as a teenager and graduated from Haaren High School in Manhattan before studying classical music at the Juilliard School, where his contemporaries included the saxophonist Teo Macero, who would later become an acclaimed record producer, and the soprano Leontyne Price." *

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References

{{Authority control Defunct high schools in Manhattan Educational institutions in the United States with year of establishment missing Former school buildings in the United States School buildings completed in 1903 Public high schools in Manhattan John Jay College of Criminal Justice 59th Street (Manhattan) 1903 establishments in New York City