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99 unusual facts about Brooklyn


1993 Ramada Hotel drownings

The victims, twin brothers George and Vincent Chin (16) and their brother Winston (13), were from Brooklyn, New York.

Ade Fuqua

Ade Fuqua (born in Brooklyn, New York) is a former American football wide receiver, who in his early career was more recognized for being a professional vocalist and song writer than a football player.

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.

Albert Gallo

In 1966, New York City's Youth Board requested that Albert Gallo and his brothers help them lower racial tensions between white and African-American youths in the East New York and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn.

Ayun Halliday

She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with Kotis and their two children, India and Milo.

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.

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.

Blahzay Blahzay

Blahzay Blahzay was an East Coast hip hop group from Brooklyn, New York, consisting of DJ PF Cuttin and MC Out Loud.

Block McCloud

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

Brooklyn ship

Brooklyn, a ship taken to San Francisco by Mormon pioneers.

Brooklyn, Indiana

The Goethe Link Observatory is a mile or two west of town on Observatory Road.

Brooklyn, Iowa

During the Presidential caucus of 2008 the editor of The Brooklyn Paper, a small New York City broadsheet journal, spent a week in Brooklyn, Iowa, posting daily reports on the city, its residents and the political process.

Brooklyn, Mississippi

Also located in Brooklyn are Forrest County Agricultural High School (grades 9-12) and South Forrest Attendance Center (grades 1-8).

Brooklyn, New South Wales

In January 1886, the Union Bridge Company from New York was awarded the contract to build a railway bridge across the Hawkesbury River.

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

Brooklyn, Portland, Oregon

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

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.

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.

David Karr

David Harold Karr, born David Katz (1918, Brooklyn, New York – 7 July 1979, Paris) was a controversial American journalist, businessman, and Communist.

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.

Edith Frost

Born in San Antonio, Texas, Frost moved to Brooklyn in 1990 where she played in the country bands the Holler Sisters, the Marfa Lights and Edith and Her Roadhouse Romeos.

Eli Gerstner

They have two children, Yaakov and Moishe, and live in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

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.

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 K. Edmondson

He also negotiated the donation of the privately owned Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana to Indiana University.

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.

Fulton Ferry

Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn, the neighborhood around the former ferry landing

Gary Blore

From 1977 until 1982, he served as a helicopter aircraft commander at Coast Guard Air Station Brooklyn, NY, and participated in the Mariel (Cuba) to Key West Cuban Exodus of 1980.

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.

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.

Greenpernt Oogle

Bullwinkle is kidnapped and taken to the island of New Greenpernt (whose king is from Brooklyn), which requires the services of his "weather-forecasting bunion" ever since their Oogle Bird was stolen.

Gus G. Widmayer

Widmayer was born August 24th at No. 142 George Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York, fourth of the five children of Francis J. Widmayer, Jr. (1929-2011) and Gertrude Marie (Catanese) (1930–2008).

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.

Head Home

Head Home is the second album and label debut from Brooklyn based alternative country band O'Death.

Henry Radusky

266 22nd Street (2002–04) - This building in Brooklyn's Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn neighborhood was designed for real estate developer Jack LoCicero.

Herman Slater

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

History of Jamaica

In New York, more than half the Jamaican expatriate population resides in Brooklyn.

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).

Infinity 16

In March 2007, the group won at the World Reggae Soundclash in Brooklyn, New York (in the International Cup‐Garrison Showdown category).

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.

Iris Cantor

Born Iris Bazel in 1931, the first daughter of Fay and Al Bazel, she grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City.

Jacob Bekenstein

Bekenstein received his undergraduate education in the Polytechnic University (now the Polytechnic Institute of New York University) in Brooklyn, New York.

Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan (born September 7, 1962) is an American novelist and short story writer who lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Jesuit Volunteer Corps

JVC serves others across four continents and can be found in inner-city neighborhoods like Brooklyn, New York, a rural reservation in South Dakota, and about 40 other sites throughout the U.S.

John F. Antisdel

Antisdel was born in Paris, New York, but moved with his family at age six to a farm near Brooklyn, Michigan in 1835.

John M. Coyne

John M. Coyne (born 1916) was the mayor of Brooklyn, Ohio from 1948 to 1999, the longest consecutive term of any mayor in United States history.

John William Warde

Warde was buried in Cemetery of the Evergreens, Brooklyn following a private funeral service at the New York and Brooklyn Funeral Home, located at 187 South Oxford Street in Brooklyn.

Joseph Troski

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

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.

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.

La Lima

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

Lapskaus Boulevard

Lapskaus Boulevard is the nickname of part of Eighth Avenue, in a historically Norwegian working-class section of bordering Bay Ridge, and Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York City.

Lieutenant Marvels

Brooklyn, New York City has its own Billy Batson, and he travels to the W.H.I.Z. radio station with two other Billy Batsons, one from the Western United States and one from the Southern United States, to visit the "real" Billy.

Lisa Batey

On Labor Day weekend in 2007, she first began lifecasting from Japan while simultaneously streaming live images from her apartment in Brooklyn; the following year, she moved to Japan.

Louis Marcus

Louis Marcus (b. January 9, 1880 in Brooklyn, New York) was elected in 1932 as the first (and to-date only) Jewish mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, and served until his death on July 6, 1936.

Mahmud Abouhalima

He flew to Brooklyn with his new wife and after his American tourist visa expired, applied for amnesty claiming to be an agricultural worker and was accepted as a permanent resident under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.

Mark Newgarden

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

Matt Dellinger

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

Mel Lipman

Melvin S. Lipman, aka Mel Lipman (born in 1936 in Brooklyn, New York) is an attorney, civil libertarian and humanist (nontheist/atheist) activist.

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.

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.

Neil deMause

Neil deMause (born November 19, 1965 in Manhattan, New York) is a Brooklyn-based freelance journalist who writes for books, magazines, and newspapers on mainly New York City's social policy issues.

Nelson Horatio Darton

He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and started working in his uncle's drug business at the age of 13, also becoming a practicing chemist.

Nicholas Santora

On August 17, 1981, Napolitano was asked to come to the basement of Bonanno associate Ron Filocomo in Flatlands, Brooklyn, where he was ambushed by Filocomo and capo Frank Lino, both of whom shot him to death.

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.

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.

Paul Laurence

Laurence had several hits with Brooklyn singer/Capitol recording artist Lillo Thomas: "(You're A) Good Girl," "Your Love's Got a Hold on Me," "(Can't Take Half) All of You" (a duet with Melba Moore), "Settle Down," "Sexy Girl" (Laurence/Timmy Allen), "I'm in Love"—not the Evelyn King hit—that went to number two R&B in spring 1987, and "Wanna Make Love (All Night Long)."

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.

Richard N. Haass

Haass was born in Brooklyn, the son of Marcella (née Rosenthal) and Irving B. Haass.

Robert Curry Cameron

On April 20, 1950, he discovered the minor planet (1575) Winifred at Brooklyn, Indiana.

Robert F. Travis

From February to May 1934, during the Air Mail scandal, Travis served as the engineering inspector for the Eastern Zone of the Army Air Corps Mail Operation (AACMO) based at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, and Mitchel Field, Long Island, in New York.

Robert J. McCormick

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

Ron Scapp

He is a founding member of Group Thought, a philosophy collective based in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Sam Coppola

He appeared in almost 70 films, beginning in 1968, but may be best remembered for his role as 'Dan Fusco', owner of the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, hardware and paint store, in Saturday Night Fever, who gave John Travolta sage but salty advice in the classic 1977 film.

Sam Levenson

Born Samuel Levenson, he grew up in a large Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn, New York.

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 Brooklyn

The revived term was less often applied to Park Slope and Sunset Park, which had come to regard themselves as distinct.

South Ferry

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

SS Naronic

Two of the bottles were found in the US, one on March 3 in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, and one in Ocean View, Virginia on March 30.

Sumner Avenue Line and New Lots Avenue Line

After crossing Fulton Street, buses use a number of streets through Crown Heights and Ocean Hill, eventually turning south on Ralph Avenue and southeast on East 98th Street.

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 World Calendar

The World Calendar is a proposed reform of the Gregorian calendar created by Elisabeth Achelis of Brooklyn, New York in 1930.

Thomas Sanzillo

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

Tom Baehr-Jones

Tom Baehr-Jones (born January 15, 1980 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American physicist who has made contributions in the field of Nanophotonics.

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.

Uncle Murda

Leonard Grant (born July 25, 1980), better known by his stage name, Uncle Murda, is an American rapper from the Pink Houses Projects of East New York.

Wardenclyffe Tower

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

William Odell

Odell's father was Rev Joseph Odell, a Primitive Methodist minister who had ministries in Wales, Leicester, where William was born, Brooklyn in the US, and Birmingham, where he was in charge of the Conference Hall and where William was educated at the King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys.

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.


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.

Arizona Beverage Company

The company roots trace back to 1971 when friends John Ferolito and Don Vultaggio opened a beverage distribution business in Brooklyn, New York.

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.

Brian Grosz

Brian Grosz is a singer/songwriter from Brooklyn, New York who plays deranged-alt folk reminiscent of Tom Waits, Mark Lanegan and PJ Harvey.

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, Connecticut

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

Burke Marshall

He was survived by his wife Violet P. Marshall, three daughters, Catie Marshall, Jane Marshall, both of Brooklyn, New York, and Josie Phillips of Plymouth, England, as well as four grandchildren: Ian Marshall Bakerman and Morgan Montgomery Bakerman of Catie Marshall and Nelson Bakerman; and James Marshall Phillips and Samuel Burke Phillips, who are the sons of Josie and Greg Phillips.

Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater

Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater (1991) is a book by Davi Napoleon about the onstage triumphs and the offstage turmoil at the Chelsea Theater Center of Brooklyn.

Claudia Shear

In Restoration, Shear plays "Giulia, a down-on-her-luck art restorer from Brooklyn who receives what could possibly be a career-reviving job of 'refreshing' Michelangelo’s David in time for its quincentennial celebration in Florence."

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

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.

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.

Excepter

Excepter is an experimental music group from Brooklyn, founded in 2002 by No-Neck Blues Band member John Fell Ryan.

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.

Getting Gotti

Getting Gotti is a 1994 TV film centered on a Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney named Diane Giacalone, and her attempts to build a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) case against John Gotti and the Gambino crime family.

Herbert L. Osgood

He attended graduate school at Amherst and Yale, and spent a year in Berlin, before returning to the United States to teach at Brooklyn High School and resume graduate studies at Columbia under Burgess, who had recently moved there.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lhamo

Brooklyn-based singer Doe Paoro trained there while living in the region, and blends the opera's vocally acrobatic stylings with elements of soul, dubstep, and R&B.

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.

Marlon Legere

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

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.

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.

Ron Greenwood

The Town Council of Loughton, where Greenwood lived during his time as West Ham manager, erected a blue plaque to his memory on one of his former houses in the town, 22 Brooklyn Avenue: this was unveiled by Sir Trevor Brooking and the Town Mayor, Chris Pond on 28 October 2008.

Roy Campanella Award

The Roy Campanella Award is given annually to the Los Angeles Dodgers player who best exemplifies the spirit and leadership of the late Hall of Fame Brooklyn Dodger catcher, Roy Campanella.

Sir Walter

Although there were important races in the state of New Maryland, it was the New York/New Jersey circuit which attracted the best horses from across the United States and the Metropolitan, Brooklyn and Suburban Handicaps were among the top events of the racing season.

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.

Weeks Marine

The company performed salvage and dredging work, installed navigational aids for the United States Coast Guard, and even constructed a breakwater to protect the air shaft leading from the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel to Governors Island.