Abraham Lincoln High School is a public high school located at 2800 Ocean Parkway, Coney Island, 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 nine through twelve.
Built in 1929, Lincoln has graduated several Nobel Prize winners and famous MDs, scientists, engineers, politicians, and other celebrities. As of 2007, only two high ...
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Abraham Lincoln High School is a public high school located at 2800 Ocean Parkway, Coney Island, 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 nine through twelve.
Built in 1929, Lincoln has graduated several Nobel Prize winners and famous MDs, scientists, engineers, politicians, and other celebrities. As of 2007, only two high schools in the world have more Nobel laureates than ALHS. In 1955, several ALHS students formed the doo-wop group The Tokens, best known for their #1 Pop Chart Hit The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
Abraham Lincoln High School, Bayside High School, Samuel J. Tilden High School and one other New York City high school were all built during the Great Depression from one set of blueprints, in order to save money.
Over many decades the school has hosted presentations and performances for its students from a variety of celebrities, including Helen Keller,...
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