Stuyvesant High School

Stuyvesant High School, often nicknamed Stuy by its staff and students, is one of New York City's specialized math- and science-based public high schools. The school was founded in 1904. Admission to Stuyvesant, which is run by the New York City Department of Education, is by competitive examination, and there is no tuition. The school is noted for its many accomplished alumni, its rigorous academics, and for sending the most students to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton of any public school in the United States.

September 11 and Stuyvesant

Stuyvesant is a quarter-mile from the former site of the World Trade Center, which was destroyed on September 11, 2001. The school was evacuated during the ordeal and the students were temporarily relocated to Brooklyn Tech starting September 21 while the Stuyvesant building was used as one of several bases of operations by rescue and recovery workers. Normal classes resumed three weeks later on October 9. The following is a list of the Stuyvesant alumni who were killed during the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center:

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The former site - World Trade Center - September 11, 2001 - Brooklyn Tech - September 21 - October 9

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• Daniel D. Bergstein '80 (tribute)
• Alan Wayne Friedlander '67 (tribute)
• Marina R. Gertsberg '93 (tribute)
• Aaron J. Horwitz '94 (tribute)
• David S. Lee '82 (tribute)
• Arnold A. Lim '90 (tribute)
• Gregory D. Richards '88 (tribute)
• '97 (tribute)
• Michael Warchola '68 (tribute)

Richard Ben-Veniste '60 was on the 9/11 Commission.

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Richard Ben-Veniste - 9/11 Commission

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On October 2, 2001, the school paper, The Spectator, included a special full-color 9/11 insert containing student photos, reflections, and stories which was reprinted in the Nov. 20, 2001 issue of the New York Times.

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In the months after 9/11, Annie Thoms, an English teacher at Stuyvesant, a 1993 alum, and the theater adviser at the time, suggested that the students take accounts of staff and students' reactions during and after 9/11 and turn them into a series of monologues. Thoms then published these monologues as With Their Eyes: September 11th – The View from a High School at Ground Zero (ISBN 0060517182). Alexander Epstein of the Stuyvesant Standard, an independent school publication, contributed the section Out of the Blue to the book At Ground Zero: Young Reporters Who Were There Tell Their Stories (ISBN 1560254270).

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