Abraham_Lincoln_High_School_(New_York)

Abraham Lincoln High School (New York)

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. (As of 2007, only two high schools in the world have more Nobel laureates than ALHS.) 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
Eddie Antar, businessman, owner of Crazy Eddie
Aegina Berg Barnes, class of 1982, CUNY educator; schoolteacher; American Arbitration Association's alternate delegate to the NYS United Teachers & AFT Convention () and wife of British actor Nicholas Barnes aka "Nick Barnes Berg" (, )
Paul Berg, class of 1943, won Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980
Mel Brooks, actor, writer, director, and comedy producer
Bernard Cornfeld, businessman and international financier
Millie Deegan, female professional baseball player
Neil Diamond, class of 1958, singer
Jerry Ferrara, actor, "Entourage"
Nelson Figueroa, class of 1992, major league pitcher
John Forsythe, class of 1934, actor
Paula Gallo, living mannequin for Abraham & Straus
Louis Gossett, Jr., class of 1954, basketball player and actor
Howard Greenfield, songwriter
Joseph Heller, class of 1941, author of Catch-22
Leona Helmsley, hotel owner, “Queen of Mean”
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
Alan Jay Kahm, living mannequin for Abraham & Straus
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
Wallace Markfield, class of 1943, comic novelist
Stephon Marbury, class of 1995, professional basketball player (NBA)
Lee Mazzilli, class of 1973, major league 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
Arthur Miller, class of 1932, author and playwright, wrote, among many other works, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible
Ralph W. Moss, class of 1960, author of books and films on cancer research and treatment
Larry Namer, class of 1966, Founder of E! Entertainment TV network
Victor Niederhoffer, class of 1960, hedge fund manager, champion squash player and statistician
Ronald Ribman, class of 1950, author, poet, and playwright
Buddy Rich, jazz drummer and bandleader
Saul Rogovin, major league pitcher
Neil Sedaka, class of 1956, pop singer, pianist and songwriter
Mort Shuman, singer, pianist, and songwriter
David Sidikman, lawyer and legislator
Alex Steinweiss, class of 1934, graphic designer and inventor of the album cover
Edward Stiefel, class of 1958, bio-inorganic chemist
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
Arthur Tress, class of 1958, surrealist photographer
Jack B. Weinstein, class of 1935, renowned federal district court judge in Brooklyn
Stephen Yagman, civil rights lawyer

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.