Brooklyn Tech gets $5M from City Council

Councilmembers Crystal Hudson and Susan Zhuang present a ceremonial check to students and administrators from Brooklyn Technical High School that will upgrade its facilities and technology.
Photo courtesy Office of Councilmember Zhuang

FORT GREENE — COUNCILMEMBERS SUSAN ZHUANG (D-43) AND CRYSTAL HUDSON (D-35) VISITED BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL RECENTLY to celebrate the $5 million investment that they secured in city funding for the specialized high school. The investment will transform Brooklyn Tech’s historic Foundry into a modern multimedia and research center.

Brooklyn Tech is the nation’s largest specialized public high school for STEM education, serving almost 6,000 students. The new investment will give students modern labs, collaboration spaces and cutting-edge technology to support hands-on learning and innovation. As a specialized high school with competitive admissions, Brooklyn Tech attracts many students from other parts of Brooklyn, including Councilmember Zhuang’s district, which includes Bensonhurst, Gravesend and parts of Sunset Park. Councilmember Hudson represents Fort Greene, home to the school, founded in 1922.

“This space will provide us collaboration and research opportunities which we currently simply don’t have,” said Principal David Newman, explaining that the school is part of the STEM pipeline with eight middle schools.

Approved and established in 1922, Brooklyn Tech was the realization of math teacher Dr. Albert L. Colston’s dream that the nation needed a better-trained technical work force. The $6 million building on Fort Greene Place opened in 1933.

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