Notable Alumni
- Ed Cota – Professional basketball player
- Charles S. Dubin – Film and television director
- Jake Ehrenreich – Class of 1974. Actor/writer. Creator of A Jew Grows in Brooklyn New York Times review J. Ehrenreich website
- Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum – Mathematical physicist and discoverer of the Feigenbaum constants
- Owen Gill – NFL Indianapolis Colts
- Sid Gordon – 2-time All Star major league baseball player
- Josh Greenfeld – Writer
- Arnold Greenberg - Co-founder of Snapple
- Nelson George – Author
- Sidney (Sonny) Hertzberg – NBA Basketball Player
- Neil Meron – Hollywood producer
- Amy Paulin – New York State Assemblywoman (D-88th District)
- Sam Perkins – Professional basketball player
- Willie Randolph – Professional baseball player; 6-time American League All Star; played on two World Series Champion teams (New York Yankees); and former manager of the New York Mets
- Lucille Roberts – Businesswoman and founder of health club chain bearing her name
- Ossie Schectman – NBA basketball player
- Al Sharpton – Pentecostal minister, political activist, civil rights activist, and former candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2004.
- Dean Silvers – Film producer/writer/director/entertainment lawyer
- Richard J. Smith – Class of 1965. Noted anthropologist
- Curtis Stevens (boxer) – Professional boxer
- Earl Ubell – Science and Health Journalist
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“a notable prince that was called King John;
And he ruled England with main and with might,
For he did great wrong, and maintained little right.”
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