James Monroe High School (New York City)
James Monroe High School is a former comprehensive high school located at 1300 Boynton Avenue at East 172nd Street in the Soundview section of the Bronx, New York City.
Opened in 1924, the original school ran for seventy years before being shut down in 1994 for poor performance. The original building now houses seven smaller high schools: the Monroe Academy for Visual Arts and Design, the Monroe Academy for Business and Law, the High School of World Cultures, The Metropolitan Soundview Highschool, Pan American International High School, Mott Hall V and the newly opened Cinema School. The building also used to house an elementary school, The Bronx Little School.
The building was designed by William H. Gompert, who was the New York City Superintendent of School Buildings. The building was built by the T.A. Clarke Co., and is substantially identical to a handful of other high school buildings that were built in the city at the same time.Notable alumni
- Danny Aiello, actor, who attended Monroe for two weeks before dropping out to enlist in National Guard
- Saul Bass, graphic designer, movie title sequence designer, and filmmaker
- Edward J. Bloustein, 17th president of Rutgers University
- Marion Borris
- Milton Cardona, musician who recorded with Willie Colon, Hector Lavoe and Tito Puente
- Darren Carrington, 8-year NFL player, played in two Super Bowls
- Cornelius H. Charlton, U.S. Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient in Korean War
- Judy Craig, Patricia Bennett, and Barbara Lee of singing group the Chiffons
- Larry Eisenberg, biomedical engineer, science fiction writer and limericist
- Jules Feiffer, cartoonist for Village Voice (won Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning
