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98 unusual facts about Brooklyn


Adam Gidwitz

He now lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, who is a scholar; he also writes full-time.

Air Wave

Law clerk Lawrence "Larry" Jordan had recently graduated from law school and was an intern at the Brooklyn District Attorney office.

Albert Weisbogel

Weisbogel died at age 74 or 75 and was buried in an unmarked grave at Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

Amiram Barkai

It was also in Jerusalem that he would meet Brooklyn born elementary school teacher Eileen Gaffin, with whom he would marry on March 17, 1965.

Antun Miletić

He has also participated in numerous other projects as collaborator, editor, reviewer and member of editorial boards, Presently, he is Chairman of the Advisory Board Jasenovac, Research Institute, Brooklyn, New York.

Arthur W. Benson

Benson founded the Brooklyn Gas Light company in 1823, when Brooklyn had 9,000 people.

Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Brooklyn

It is located on 5th Avenue between 59th and 60th streets in the Sunset Park neighborhood and occupies about half the square block extending back to 6th Avenue, with the rectory and ancillary buildings occupying the remainder.

Ben Shuldiner

In 2002, Shuldiner and co-founder Marisa Boan received a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to build a high school that better reflected their vision of a fair public education system, and the High School for Public Service: Heroes of Tomorrow opened on the George W. Wingate High School campus in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in the fall of 2003.

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Upon founding the High School for Public Service: Heroes of Tomorrow in Brooklyn, New York, he became the youngest high school Principal in New York state history.

Bergen Street Line

The Bergen Street Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running westbound mostly along Bergen Street, as well as eastbound on Dean Street (as part of a one-way pair), between Downtown Brooklyn and Ocean Hill (earlier Red Hook to City Line).

Block McCloud

Block Mccloud (born Ismael Diaz Jr.) is an underground rapper and singer, who was born and raised in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Brooklyn, Connecticut

Elijah Paine (1757–1842), a Federalist U.S. senator from Vermont (1795–1801) was born in town.

Brooklyn, New South Wales

On 6 May 1990 an interurban electric train ran into the rear of the heritage steam train 3801 which had stalled climbing the Cowan Bank.

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The town has traditionally been associated with the farming of Sydney rock oyster with generations of the same families involved.

Bruce Lanoil

Bruce Lanoil is an American actor, voice artist, puppeteer for The Jim Henson Company, and a Muppeteer for The Walt Disney Company, who frequently works with puppeteer David Alan Barclay and hails from Brooklyn.

Bruklinas

Bruklinas means Brooklyn in Lithuanian and the mall is designed after this borough and New York City in general, including motifs of Brooklyn bridge in its exterior.

Charles Albert Berry

In 1887 he went to America in fulfilment of a promise to Henry Ward Beecher of Brooklyn, and received a unanimous invitation to succeed Beecher in what was then the best-known pulpit in the United States.

Cris Lankenau

After leaving high school in Boca Raton, Lankenau moved to New York and joined with the growing creative community centered in Williamsburg, Brooklyn working as a DJ and writing occasionally for Vice magazine.

Dillon Cooper

Born and raised in Crown Heights Brooklyn, New York, 19-year-old Dillon Cooper became a self-taught guitarist at age 8, and a college freshman by age 17 at one of the world's most sought after music schools, Berklee College of Music.

Doiby Dickles

Doiby ('Derby' with a thick Brooklyn accent) works as a taxi driver, mostly for the Apex Broadcasting company, where Alan Scott is employed.

Dolly Williams

She and her husband, Adonijah "Carl" Williams, have two children and reside in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Don Cooney

He also served at a Parish in Brooklyn, New York, before being chosen to be the director of "A Better Chance" House in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where he helped nine disadvantaged young people win scholarships to some of the best Colleges in America.

Douglas Bomeisler

In later years, Bomeisler went into the banking profession and served as the vice president of the Empire Trust Company of New York and a director of the Greenpoint Savings Bank of Brooklyn.

Eddie Ocampo

He currently lives in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, NY, and can be found playing in The Full Watts Band.

Erik Martin Dilan

Erik Martin Dilan currently represents District 37 in the New York City Council, which comprises the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bushwick, Cypress Hills, East New York, Ocean Hill, and Brownsville.

Ernest Varacalli

"I shot him twice in the head," Gravano said, "Then three more times when his body was dumped out of the car on Rockaway Parkway, (a street in Canarsie, Brooklyn)." Once Colucci became a widow, she married the younger Spero.

Figo House

Later that year he arranged a Portland screening of the documentary film, Battle for Brooklyn, about Brooklyn, New York, residents fighting to save their homes from real estate developers.

Flatbush

Flatbush, Brooklyn, a community of Brooklyn, New York City, United States

Fort Hamilton Parkway

Fort Hamilton Parkway is a street in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

Francine Gottfried

A nice Jewish girl who lived at home with her parents in Williamsburg, she wasn't seeking notoriety and started taking a different route to work.

Frank Lastorino

Raised in Canarsie, Brooklyn, Lastorino soon joined the Lucchese crime family under Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo in extortion, loansharking and illegal gambling operations during the 1970s, and was recognized as one of the most notorious hitmen from the Brooklyn faction of the crime family.

Fred the Undercover Kitty

Fred the Undercover Kitty (May 2005 - August 10, 2006) was a domestic shorthaired cat who gained fame for his undercover work with the New York Police Department and the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office in the arrest of a suspect posing as a veterinary care provider.

Gene Pritsker

He moved to the United States with his family in 1979 and lived in Sheapshead Bay Brooklyn.

George Preti

He received his B.S. in Chemistry from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1966, and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1971 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a specialty in Organic Mass Spectrometry in the laboratory of Professor Klaus Biemann.

Get Ready to Bounce

Listeners in the United States who had never heard of Brooklyn Bounce before assumed it was an ode to Brooklyn.

Gildone

The first emigrants left around the turn of the twentieth century and mainly settled in Brooklyn, NY and Cleveland, OH (there is a plaque in Gildone's main church St Sabino, commemorating the financial contribution of the Gildonese émigré community of Cleveland towards the church's restoration in 1923).

Guy R. Gregg

Guy R. Gregg (born December 14, 1949, Brooklyn, New York) is an American Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1992–2008, where he represented the 24th Legislative District.

Hageman Farm

They first settled in Flatbush, New York, then in 1702, four grandsons of Adrian and Catherine moved to Six Mile Run, New Jersey.

Herman Slater

Bucznski and Slater opened the The Warlock Shoppe, the oldest witchcraft bookshop in Brooklyn, New York.

Hi Hater

The music video for the song was directed by Dan the Man and mostly takes place in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, which is Maino's hometown.

Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match

Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match is the second album by Afuche, a band founded in Brooklyn in 2008.

Howard Mackie

Mackie grew up in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, mostly raised by his mother, as his father having died when he was seven.

IND Eighth Avenue Line

Crossing to Williamsburg, the line was to have stops at Havemeyer Street, South Fourth Street (connections to the IND Crosstown Line and a major junction to the IND Houston Street Line, the IND Utica Ave Line and a connection to the Rockaways).

International Municipal Signal Association

The organization dates back to October 1896, when municipal signal men representing several cities met in Brooklyn to discuss and share knowledge in construction procedures and maintenance of signal systems.

Iqbal Ahmed

In 2001, a new sales office was created in the United States to distribute products in North America, located in New Jersey and in Brooklyn, New York City.

Irwin Lachman

Lachman was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1930 and grew up in Jersey Homesteads, New Jersey, and attended Upper Freehold Township High School (later renamed Allentown High School).

James Stuckey

He is responsible for the creation of many New York public and private large scale projects, and is currently responsible for the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Founder of Forest City Ratner Companies' Atlantic Yards Development Group.

João Silvério Trevisan

The film was shot in Brooklyn, and entered more than 80 film festivals and won 21 awards all over the world, including Best of the Fest at Palm Springs International Film Festival, the Storyteller Award at Savannah Film Fetival, and the Van Gogh Award at the Amsterdam Film Festival, among others.

John Wolfe Ambrose

Over the next fifteen years, Ambrose succeeded in obtaining $1,478,000 from Congress for improving the Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels.

Jon Ballantyne

As a six-year resident of Park Slope, Brooklyn in 1990's, Jon also played countless afternoon jam sessions (he cites this as a creatively fertile time-"the musicians were really intent on experimentation") in his studio apartment with young musicians, most of them neighbors, such as Mark Turner, Seamus Blake, Donny McAslin, Bill Carrothers, Hugh Sicotte, John McKenna, Dave Pietro, Tony Scherr, Johannes Weidenmueller, Marc Miralta, Matt Wilson, Owen Howard, Jay Rosen and Phil Haynes.

Joseph Scorney

He drove a $3500 Porsche Turbo Carrera including two other brand new luxury cars and lived in a newly furnished highrise apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn where he told criminal associates he hid $25,000 in the base of an artificial plant for bribing police.

Jukeboxer

Jukeboxer is the moniker of Brooklyn-based musician Noah Wall.

Khust

After the war, he established a congregation for Chust Holocaust survivors in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn which his son-in-law Grand Rabbi Pinchos Dovid Horowitz, eldest son of Levi Yitzchak Horowitz the Bostoner Rebbe, now leads.

Kings Transit

The Municipality of the District of West Hants funded the system's eastern expansion from Wolfville through Hantsport to Brooklyn.

Kiryat Sanz, Netanya

The purchase price of the land was covered with part of a $1 million check that the Rebbe had received from the City of New York, which was planning to build a new road in place of the ageing buildings occupied by the Rebbe's Yesodei HaTorah school in Brooklyn.

Knut Haukelid

Knut Haukelid (born May 17, 1911 in Brooklyn, New York, United States; died March 8, 1994 in Oslo, Norway) was a Norwegian resistance movement soldier during World War II, most notable for participating in the Norwegian heavy water sabotage.

LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds men's basketball

Beginning in the 1975–1976 season, an annual Battle of Brooklyn game was dedicated to tribute William Lai and Daniel Lynch, former athletic directors at Long Island University and St. Francis College, respectively.

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The LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds men's basketball team represents Long Island University, located in Brooklyn, New York in NCAA Division I basketball competition.

Mark Newgarden

Newgarden resides with children's illustrator and author Megan Montague Cash in an ex-funeral parlor in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Marlon Legere

On September 10, 2004, Marlon Legere's mother Melva placed a call to the 67th precinct in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.

Matt Dellinger

He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and blogs for public radio’s TransportationNation.org.

Mendy Werdyger

Since 1991, he has been the baal tefillah (cantor) for the Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur prayer services at a Gerrer shtiebel in Boro Park, Brooklyn.

Meyer Seewald

Meyer Seewald is a Crown Heights resident who started an organization dedicated to eradicating child sexual abuse (CSA) within the Orthodox Jewish Community.

Monjo Company

The Monjo company was founded by Nicholas F. Monjo, a Spanish immigrant from Algiers, shortly after the Civil War, in Brooklyn, New York, and became a substantial business by the early 1880s.

Murder of Jennifer Moore

As the year 2006 had been one in which a number of high-profile murders of young women students were covered in the media, there have been no revelations, however, to the case of even younger Chanel Petro-Nixon, who disappeared in broad daylight while walking in Brooklyn on a Sunday afternoon to apply for a job.

Murder of Rashawn Brazell

In February 2005, after disappearing from his home in Bushwick, Brooklyn, 19-year-old Brazell's dismembered body parts were found in garbage bags strewn throughout the borough.

N. Nick Perry

He currently represents District 58, which comprises East Flatbush, as well as portions of Canarsie and Brownsville, among other neighborhoods located in the borough of Brooklyn.

Namugongo

The mixed boarding school is a partner with the Stephen Shames Foundation, based in Brooklyn, New York State in the instruction of Information Technology methods and applications to high school students in Uganda.

Neighborhoods of Jacksonville

It is the center of Jacksonville's Urban Core, which includes the surrounding neighborhoods of LaVilla, Springfield, East Jacksonville, and Brooklyn, plus a section on the south side of the St. Johns River known as Southbank.

New York City Regional Center

The NYCRC is also providing funding for key components of the Atlantic Yards project as well as the redevelopment of Downtown Brooklyn’s central business district.

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NYCRC was approved by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), a division of the Department of Homeland Security to secure foreign investment for real estate projects within Brooklyn, Queens Manhattan, and the Bronx.

Ninjasonik

Ninjasonik are native New Yorkers: Telli grew up in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn while Jah-Jah was born and raised in The Bronx.

Ocey Snead

After they received word that Ocey was pregnant, the three sisters chased him to Canada and virtually kidnapped Ocey to Brooklyn.

Patonga, New South Wales

Patonga can be accessed by road along Patonga Drive from Umina to the north, by ferry from Palm Beach and Brooklyn, or by private watercraft.

Patricia DiMango

Patricia Mafalda DiMango (officially Hon. Patricia M. Di Mango) is a justice of the Supreme Court of Kings County, New York.

Richard Crudo

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he began his career as an assistant cameraman on features, episodic television, commercials and documentaries while attending Columbia University.

Robert J. McCormick

He was raised in Brooklyn, graduating from James Madison High School in 1965.

Sabine Hrechdakian

She works for both Brooklyn and Woodstock and promotes farm-based food and drink.

Sandwich Day

The Teamsters, led by Mickey J. (Brian Dennehy), bring in "secret" sandwiches from an unknown Italian delicatessen in Brooklyn.

Sara M. Gonzalez

Sara M. Gonzalez represents District 38 in the New York City Council, which comprises Sunset Park, Boerum Hill, Red Hook, Windsor Terrace, among other neighborhoods within the borough of Brooklyn.

Sha Stimuli

Sha Stimuli, born Sherod Khaalis (August 9, 1978), is an American rapper from Brooklyn, New York.

Shabazz the Disciple

Shabazz the Disciple or Scientific Shabazz, is a rapper from the Red Hook Houses of Red Hook, Brooklyn.

South Ferry

South Ferry, Brooklyn, the former ferry landing at the foot of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn

Squadron of Justice

Three young men from different areas of the country (Texas, the Ozarks and Brooklyn) all named Billy Batson were reading Captain Marvel’s comic book adventures and happened to wonder if saying “Shazam” would work for them as well.

Tah Mac

Tah Mac (born in Brooklyn, New York) is an American rapper and songwriter, who rose to fame as a producer of various Hip hop and R&B acts, before releasing his first solo album in 2009.

Taj Gibson

Gibson was raised primarily in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn and began his high school career at the High School of Telecommunication Arts & Technology in Brooklyn, N.Y. He then attended Stoneridge Prep as a sophomore and junior in Tarzana, California.

The Epochs

The band nexus of operations for the period of 2002-2003 and again from 2006 to today is Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

The Little Man on the Subway

Patrick Cullen, a conductor on the New York subway, is astonished when no one gets off his train as it reaches Flatbush, the end of the line.

The Pregnant Concert

The Pregnant Concert is a live recording of a recital by American cello rock band Rasputina held at the Knitting Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on September 13, 2009 (although the album cover claims it to have been 1909).

The Primitives

In spring of 2010, The Primitives toured the UK and also performed a single US concert at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

The recording coincided with the band's relocation from Williamsburg, Brooklyn to the woods of rural New Jersey, which also inspired the initial direction of the album.

Thomas Sanzillo

Thomas Sanzillo (born 1955 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American investment banker, financial advisor and politician.

Tomys Swartwout

Tomys Swartwout, Jan Snedeker and Jan Stryker solicited from Stuyvesant the right to settle together on the level reach of wild land (de vlacke bosch) or the Flat bush, adjacent to the outlying farms at Breukelen and Amersfoort.

Wardenclyffe Tower

In 1925, the property ownership was transferred to Walter L. Johnson of Brooklyn.

Wessell Anderson

Anderson grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, and played jazz early on at the urging of his father, who was a drummer.

World Coming Down

World Coming Down is the fifth album by the Brooklyn band Type O Negative.

Xodus

Xodus: The New Testament is the second album by Brooklyn-based hip hop group X Clan.

Yehuda Levin

Yehuda Levin (born 1954) is the Rabbi and founder of Congregation Mevakshei Hashem (Those Who Seek the Lord) Synagogue in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.


Adrian Schoolcraft

Between 1 June 2008 and 15 October 2009, Schoolcraft recorded conversations at the 81st Precinct police station, responsible for the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.

Bertram Tracy Clayton

He resigned in 1888, intending to work as a civil engineer, but went on to serve with Troop C, New York Volunteer Cavalry (Brooklyn's Own) during the Spanish-American War in Puerto Rico, winning distinction.

Big Daddy's Restaurants

In the 1968 film Bye Bye Braverman, a scene was shot with actor George Segal in front of Big Daddy's as well as on location throughout the borough of Brooklyn.

Blacks and Jews

The film focused on incidents such as the 1960s blockbusting of the then-largely Jewish Lawndale neighborhood on the west side of Chicago and a rabbi's efforts to maintain stability in the community and of a Hasidic father and son who were protected by a Black journalist during the 1991 riots in Brooklyn that took place in the wake of the death of Gavin Cato by a Hasidic driver.

Brooklyn Magazine

Brooklyn Magazine was founded by Northside Media Group (brothers Scott and Daniel Stedman, the same team behind the popular free alt-weekly L Magazine).

Brooklyn, Portland, Oregon

In 1868 Tibbets subdivided the property into smaller lots and allowed the Oregon Central Railroad to cross the property.

Bryan Ryley

His work is found in numerous private and public collections, such as, The Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa; Kelowna Public Art Gallery, Kelowna; Vernon Public Art Gallery; The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York; Petro Canada Collection; Shell Collection in Calgary, Alberta.

College of Staten Island High School for International Studies

In 1999, she became assistant principal of social studies at Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn before taking the job as the founding principal of CSIHSIS.

Cronyn

William B. Cronyn House, also known as the House at 271 Ninth Street, is a historic home located in Brooklyn, New York, New York

Domino Kirke

"The Guard" was produced by Domino, Timo Ellis (Cibo Matto and The Netherlands) Jorge Elbrecht (Lansing-Dreiden and Violens) and was recorded in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Edward Nugent

Brooklyn USA (1941), the comedy Junior Miss (1942), and See My Lawyer (1939) were some of his best roles.

Eric Nagler

Eric Nagler (born June 1, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American-born musician and television personality known primarily for his work on Canadian children's television series such as The Elephant Show.

Eruv

Another ongoing dispute is the status of two inter-connected eruvin in Brooklyn: The Flatbush eruv and the Boro Park eruv.

Galia Solomonoff

Her notable projects include Dia:Beacon; the Defective Brick Project; multiple residential projects in Manhattan and Brooklyn; and competition proposals for institutional projects around the world.

Genya Turovskaya

Turovskaya lives in Brooklyn, New York where she is an associate editor of the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse.

Gino Perente

Individuals associated with Perente purchased 1107-1115 Carrol St, an apartment building in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, and he lived there, surrounded by volunteers for his organizations, for the rest of his life.

Greg Mullavey

His father, Gregory Thomas "Greg" Mulleavy, played Major League Baseball for the White Sox, Red Sox, third base coach for Brooklyn Dodgers and LA Dodgers, and won four World Series with the Dodgers.

Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society

The organization ran shelters for recent Jewish immigrants at Castle Garden, New York's immigration center at the Battery prior to the 1892 opening of the facility at Ellis Island; Wards Island near the meeting point of Manhattan, The Bronx and Queens; and Greenpoint in Brooklyn.

Hicks Street Line

The Hicks Street Line was a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running from the Ninth Avenue Depot at Greenwood Cemetery to the Brooklyn Bridge.

James Tilton

He served with distinction and saw action at the battles of Brooklyn, White Plains, Trenton, and Princeton.

Jeremy O'Keefe

His next film, "Somewhere Slow" starring Jessalyn Gilsig, of "Glee (TV Series)", who is also one of the film's producers won the Best Narrative Feature prize at the 2013 Brooklyn Film Festival.

Jerome Swartz

Swartz received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from The City College of New York and a Ph.D. also in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, receiving fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Ford Foundation along the way.

John Thomas Underwood

The site of his mansion in Clinton Hill was donated by his widow and daughter to the borough of Brooklyn as a public park, named in his honour.

Joseph Troski

By the age of 18, Troski began performing in clubs and restaurants throughout NYC's East Village and Brooklyn such as CBGB.

Jumping Someone Else's Train

The song was covered by the Brooklyn-based band "Luff" for the 2008 American Laundromat Records tribute album Just Like Heaven - A Tribute to The Cure and by Army Navy on Manimal Vinyl's tribute Perfect as Cats: A Tribute to The Cure.

Kings Transit

Today the Kings Transit system consists of four routes, primarily travelling on Trunk 1 from Brooklyn to Weymouth.

La Lima

Also a large population of limeños have residency in New York City, especially The Bronx and Brooklyn.

Labor Day Carnival

Many Calypso and Soca songs from Trinidad make reference to the Labor Day Carnival, including "Gunplay on the Eastern Parkway" by Calypso Rose, "Melee (on the Eastern Parkway)" by Maestro, and "Labor Day in Brooklyn" by the Mighty Sparrow.

Leo Portnoff

He initially resided in Brooklyn, and later moved to Florida to teach music at the University of Miami.

Leonard Lopate

He has also appeared in a similar capacity at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Queens College, Brooklyn College, the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Public Library, the Alliance Française, and The New School; and he has created a series of discussions on literature for the writers’ organization, PEN International.

Living in Missouri

The AFF is the first festival to focus on the contribution of the screenwriter, and 2001's honorees were Lawrence Kasdan (writer/director of Grand Canyon, Mumford, The Big Chill; writer of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back) and Gary David Goldberg Family Ties, Brooklyn Bridge).

Marlborough Farms

Marlborough Farms is the debut album from Brooklyn, New York indie pop band The Ladybug Transistor.

Matthew J. Blit

Matthew J. Blit was born in Brooklyn, New York, was the eldest of two sons, and grew up in the neighborhood of Mill Basin, where he attended South Shore High School.

Mychal Simonz

He also studied music at the school of performing arts Erasmus Hall High School with fellow students, former Motown President Kedar Massenburg, jazz singer Will Downing and R&B singer D-Train during same time period in Brooklyn.

Native American hip hop

Melle Mel, the first rapper to ever use the epithet MC, is Cherokee and Ernie Paniccioli, a famous photographer of hip-hop culture who grew up in Brooklyn, is Cree.

Pacific Pearl Company

After Kroehl recovered sufficiently from malaria he contracted while serving the Union Navy during the Vicksburg Campaign, he began designing and building a vessel at Ariel Patterson's Shipyard near the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Paulie Provenzano

After just being discharged from the United States Marines, Paul Provenzano returns to his home in Brooklyn, where he attempts to take over the local 'chapter' of the Mafia.

South Brooklyn

Since the early 50s, some kids growing up in the areas that make up South Brooklyn have affiliated under the name South Brooklyn Boys.

Stanley White

He joined the New York City Police Department in, or around, 1970 and was originally based in Brooklyn before being transferred to the 5th Precinct in Chinatown, Manhattan.

Sugar packet

Ben had been a tea bag factory worker, and became irritated by the task of refilling and unclogging all the sugar dispensers in his Brooklyn cafeteria across from the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

The Kid from Brooklyn

The Kid from Brooklyn (1946) is a comedy film starring Danny Kaye and co-starring Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran, Walter Abel, Eve Arden, and Fay Bainter, about a milkman who becomes world boxing champion.

Thomas W. Hanshew

Thomas W. Hanshew (1857 – 1914) was an American actor and writer, born in Brooklyn, N. Y. He went on the stage when only 16 years old, playing minor parts with Ellen Terry's company.

Wangechi Mutu

Wangechi Mutu (born June 22, 1972 in Nairobi, Kenya) is an artist and sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Woodruff Leeming

He designed the 1893 rectory for the South Congregational Church, Chapel, Ladies Parlor, and Rectory, Brooklyn, New York, which is now a New York City Landmark.