Transit Tech High School is a vocational high school in East New York, Brooklyn, New York. It is a trade school whose mission is the training of students for careers in the rapid transit

Rapid transit

A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated railway, metro or metropolitan railway system is an electric passenger railway in an urban area with a high capacity and frequency, and grade separation from other traffic. Rapid transit systems are typically located either in underground tunnels or on...

 industry. It is located at 1 Wells Street, at the corner of Fountain Avenue, between Atlantic Avenue (New York City)

Atlantic Avenue (New York City)

Atlantic Avenue is an important street in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. It stretches from the Brooklyn waterfront on the East River all the way to Jamaica, Queens...

 and Liberty Avenue. The athletic field for the school is at the south side of the beginning of Conduit Boulevard

Conduit Boulevard

Conduit Boulevard is an arterial road in New York City. The divided highway runs from Atlantic Avenue in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn to Hook Creek Boulevard in Rosedale, Queens at the Nassau County border...

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History

The school lies on the site of the East New York Vocational High School. The school was built on the former site of pumping stations for the Ridgewood Reservoir. It was constructed coincidental with the construction of Conduit Boulevard.

Conversion to Transit Tech

In the late 1980s it converted to its present mission. It graduated its first class in 1990.