Haaren High School was a high school located in Midtown Manhattan, New York, United States. The school was noted for its vocational program including classes focusing on internal combustion engines.[1] The facility was constructed in 1903 to house DeWitt Clinton High School. When that school relocated in 1927, it became home to Haaren High School (named for educator John Henry Haaren) until that school closed in the late 1970s.[2] After developers announced plans to renovate the building to house offices, production studios and retail, John Jay College purchased the structure in 1988 and remodeled it to house offices, a library, classrooms and other facilities.[3][4]
Notable alumni
Herman Badillo (1929–2014), first Puerto Rican-American U.S. congressman[5]
Mario Biaggi (1917–2015), decorated policeman and US Congressman
^Slotnik, 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."
