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unusual facts about Bensonhurst


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.


Adele Morales

Morales was descended from a Spanish mother and Native Peruvian father; she grew up in Bensonhurst but moved to Manhattan, where she studied painting with Hans Hofmann and took up a Bohemian lifestyle, being involved for several years with Edwin Fancher (who together with Mailer and Dan Wolf founded The Village Voice) and briefly with Jack Kerouac.

Bais Hatalmud

:There are two yeshivas with the name Bais Hatalmud For the article that deals with Bais Hatalmud in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York, see Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College.

Bensonhurst Blues

The song Bensonhurst Blues was written by Artie Kaplan and Artie Kornfeld and was originally released in 1972 on Hopi Records on an album titled Confessions Of A Male Chauvinist Pig featuring Artie Kaplan.

David Storobin

David Storobin (born 1979) is a New York Attorney and a former New York State Senator who represented District 27 in the New York State Senate, which includes the neighborhoods of Borough Park, Midwood, Bensonhurst, Brighton Beach, Kensington, Bergen Beach, Mill Basin, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, and Manhattan Beach, among others.

Helen Boehm

She was born as Elena Francesca Stephanie Franzolin on Boxing Day 1920 to immigrants from Italy and raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

Richard DiNome

He owned three cars, including a Porsche 935, and lived in a newly furnished Bensonhurst, Brooklyn highrise apartment building where he kept $25,000 hidden underneath the hollow bottom of an artificial plant, for "in case I have to buy a cop off" as he would tell his associates.

William Colton

William Colton (born 1946) is an American politician who represents District 47 in the New York Assembly, which comprises Bath Beach, Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Dyker Heights and Midwood.


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