Haaren High School was a public high school in the Midtown Manhattan area of New York City in New York, United States. It was located at 899 Tenth Avenue, between 58th Street and 59th Street, in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood.
The building was designed by Charles B. J. Snyder and was originally constructed in 1903 to house DeWitt Clinton High School. When that school relocated to the Bronx in 1929, the building became home to Haaren High School until it closed in the late 1970s. Named for educator John Henry Haaren, the school was noted for its vocational program, including classes focusing on internal combustion engines.
After developers announced plans to renovate the building to create offices, production studios and retail stores, John Jay College purchased the structure in 1988 and remodeled it to house offices, a library, classrooms and other facilities. It is now known as Haaren Hall.
Notable alumni Herman Badillo (1929–2014), first Puerto Rican-American U.S. congressman Mario Biaggi (1917–2015), decorated policeman and US Congressman Edd Byrnes, actor Ron Carey (1936–2008), president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Ed Feingersh, 1950s photojournalist Padraic Fiacc, Irish poet Robert García, New York Assemblyman and congressman David Greenglass, 1950s Soviet spy Joe Hayes, Taekwondo fighter and champion Lynbert Johnson, NBA player Robert Mitchum (1917–1997), actor Pedro Pietri, Nuyorican poet Paul Rand, graphic designer and illustrator Albert Salmi, actor Ray Santos (1928–2019), Grammy Award-winning Latin musicianSlotnik, Daniel E. "Ray Santos, a Pillar of Latin Jazz, Is Dead at 90", The New York Times, 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." George Stade, novelist and Columbia literature professor James Victor, actor John Worth, president and executive director of the Academy of Model Aeronautics
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