WE ALL GREW UP IN CANARSIE

     Years from now, you may be sitting in a ultra-modern movie theater and see a familiar face up there on the virtual reality screen. Then it hits you, "Hey, I went to school with that guy/girl and she/he stood me up at my senior prom."While that may seem a little farfetched, there are several former Canarsians who at one time or another were in the celebrity spotlight, and may even have sat next to you in High School Biology. Some you may have heard of, some are still celebrities of one degree or another, and others are just ordinary citizens who once had their fifteen minutes of fame.

     See how many you knew back when...

Michael Goldfinger Canarsie High School 1972.

I am best known as the "Beer Stud" in the Coors Lite commercial. I was recently seen playing Bruce Cutler in the mini-series"Witness To The Mob". I appeared in "Men In Black", "Stand and Deliver"and "Home Alone 2". I have done numerous guest spots on sit coms but was best known as "Rusty the Electrican" the one who showed the crack of his butt on "Designing Women".

Lloyd Free

                                                                      Lloyd Free graduated Canarsie High School 1972.  He would later  change his name to World B. Free. World grew up in Brooklyn, NY and quickly became a playground legend. In his younger days he had a 44 inch vertical jump. He was a star at Canarsie High School leading them to the PSAL Basketball Championship in 1972. He went on to Guilford College in Greensboro, NC to lead them into the NAIA championship as a freshman. He had a wonderful career that spanned 13 years in the NBA. Today World works for the Philadelphia 76ers as a community relations representative providing his knowledge and wisdom to the people in the Philadelphia area while conducting special programs for children.

South Shore High School

Actress Annabella Sciorra

"Jungle Fever," "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle,The Funeral, Copland (opposite Sylvester Stallone), among others.

Original Drummer from the Rock Group KISS

Canarsie High School 1972 Founder of the Guardian Angels

WARREN CUCCURULLO

Canarsie High School 1974 

Currently lead guitarist for Duran Duran.

Played many years in the Frank Zappa Band & there was even a song titiled Canarsie!

Canarsie High School 1973

Former Pro Baseball Player, Baltimore Orioles 1983.

Below are his career statistics:

Career pitching statistics

YR TEAM LG W L PCT G SV IP H R ER TBB SO ERA

1983 Bal AL 0 1 .000 22 1 37.2 39 10 10 10 15 2.39

TOTALS 0 1 .000 22 1 37.2 39 10 10 10 15 2.39

South Shore High School

Former Pro Baseball player 1991 and 1992, Texas Rangers.

Below are his career statistics:

Career pitching statistics

YR TEAM LG W L PCT G SV IP H R ER TBB SO ERA

1991 Tex AL 1 4 .200 36 1 70.1 72 43 41 36 61 5.25

1992 Tex AL 0 0 .000 6 0 4.2 7 4 4 2 1 7.71

TOTALS 1 4 .200 42 1 75.0 79 47 45 38 62 5.40

Has been on 4 NBA Championship Winning Teams

Canarsie High School 1982

NBA Pro Basketball Player

Nicknamed "Spider," John Salley lived in Bayview Houses.

Below are his career statistics:

Year by Year Totals

Year Tm G Min FG- FGA FT- FTA 3P-3PA ORB TRB AST STL BLK PF PTS

 86-7 Det 82 1463 163- 290 105- 171 0- 1 108 296 54 44 125 256 431

 87-8 Det 82 2003 258- 456 185- 261 0- 0 166 402 113 53 137 294 701

88-9 Det 67 1458 166- 333 135- 195 0- 2 134 335 75 40 72 197 467

89-0 Det 82 1914 209- 408 174- 244 1- 4 154 439 67 51 153 282 593

90-1 Det 74 1649 179- 377 186- 256 0- 1 137 327 70 52 112 240 544

91-2 Det 72 1774 249- 486 186- 260 0- 3 106 296 116 49 110 222 684

92-3 Mia 51 1422 154- 307 115- 144 0- 0 113 313 83 32 70 192 423

93-4 Mia 76 1910 208- 436 164- 225 2- 3 132 407 135 56 78 260 582

94-5 Mia 75 1955 197- 395 153- 207 0- 0 110 336 123 47 85 279 547

95-6 2TM 42 673 63- 140 59- 85 0- 0 46 140 54 19 27 110 185

Tor 25 482 51- 105 47- 65 0- 0 26 97 39 11 12 72 149

Chi 17 191 12- 35 12- 20 0- 0 20 43 15 8 15 38 36

Canarsie High School 1975

NBA Pro Basketball Player

Pos: G U#: - College: Texas Tech

HT: 6'2" WT: 175 BORN: 11/8/1957

Year by Year Totals

Year Tm G Min FG- FGA FT- FTA 3P-3PA ORB TRB AST STL BLK PF PTS

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79-80 NY 71 923 94- 241 28- 38 3- 17 14 58 159 39 5 83 219

80-81 2TM 81 2434 461- 942 150- 212 1- 5 45 138 394 58 7 148 1073

Dal 56 1892 385- 789 128- 185 1- 4 33 99 277 45 6 113 899

Cle 25 542 76- 153 22- 27 0- 1 12 39 117 13 1 35 174

81-82 Cle 78 2409 325- 672 153- 200 3- 10 53 150 590 70 11 169 806

82-83 Cle 80 2716 401- 832 168- 245 4- 12 41 159 487 74 4 215 974

83-84 Cle 77 2041 348- 699 110- 154 2- 11 32 96 413 38 1 126 808

84-85 Cle 8 93 12- 25 2- 3 0- 0 0 1 23 0 0 8 26

85-86 GS 82 1208 140- 273 63- 92 2- 6 10 65 342 38 4 67 345

86-87 LAC 19 428 55- 121 18- 34 1- 2 6 17 101 14 0 28 129

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TOTAL 496 1836- 3805 16- 63 684 331 844

12252 692- 978 201 2509 32 4380

                                                                        Al Roker

NBC Weatherman

Lived in Bayview Houses

Craig Allen is the meteorologist for This Morning and CBS Morning News. Allen made his debut in his new role on Monday, August 12, 1996, the day on which the broadcast's new, innovative format was implemented.

Allen joined This Morning from WCBS-TV and WCBS-AM, the CBS-owned stations in New York. He has served as meteorologist for Channel 2 News This Morning since 1990, and for Newsradio88 since 1980. He has also substituted for Mark McEwen when he was the weather reporter on CBS This Morning. Allen is a member of the American Meteorological Society and has won three local Emmy Awards for his weather coverage.

Craig was born on January 25, 1957, in Brooklyn, New York. He was graduated from Stony Brook (New York) University in 1979 with a degree in meteorology.

Left Canarsie October 1971. Had he not left he would have graduated from Canarsie H.S. in 1979. Grades 1-5 were at P.S. 242. 1st grade Miss Rubin, 2nd Mrs. Perrin, 3rd Mrs. Holtzman, 4th Mrs. Kronenberg and 5th. Mr. Bud.

Here is the list of stations that he has worked at:

'84-'85 Q105 Tampa, '87-'88 Y-100 Miami, '88-'91 Z100 New York, '91-'93 Eagle 106 Philly, '93 Kiss 108 Boston '94-'96, Z100 New York (again), '96 WKTU New York, '96 K-Rock New York, '96-'97 Z104 Washington DC, '97-'99 WXYV Baltimore,

Present New York (3rd time)

Has appeared 2 times on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Once on New Years Eve. Larry sat in with the band while playing his "Teeth" to "Auld Lang Syne"  

"I play my teeth because I used to have a nervous habit and click my teeth. … I decided to hit my teeth and psyche myself out."

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