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98 unusual facts about Brooklyn


A. R. Bernard

The Bernard's took their savings and rented a small storefront in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn.

Adam Gidwitz

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

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.

Air Wave

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

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.

Albert Weisbogel

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

Alf Goullet

That winter Goullet won the first Paris six-day race, paired with Joe Fogler of Brooklyn.

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.

Antonio Cottone

In 1956, Joe Profaci, in Brooklyn (New York City), was recorded talking about the export of Sicilian oranges with Nino Cottone, in Sicily.

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 Nowick

Nowick was born in Brooklyn, New York and received his BA degree in Physics in 1943 from Brooklyn College, and MA and PhD degrees in Physics from Columbia University in 1948 and 1950, respectively.

Barry Sumpter

Barry Sumpter (born November 11, 1965 in Brooklyn, Illinois) is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the San Antonio Spurs in the 3rd round (56th overall) of the 1988 NBA Draft.

Barth S. Cronin

He died on February 15, 1933, at his home at 8070 Narrows Avenue in Brooklyn, of a heart attack; and was buried at the Holy Cross Cemetery there.

Ben Shuldiner

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.

Brooklyn ship

Three ships of the United States Navy have borne the name Brooklyn, after the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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, 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.

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.

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.

Clifford J. Levy

They live with their three children: Danya, Arden and Emmett in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

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.

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.

Elizabeth Casado

Elizabeth Casado Irizarry was born on August 29, 1965 in 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.

Flight of the Knife

Flight of the Knife is the second album from the Brooklyn area indie rock artist Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears.

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.

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.

Frederic Archer

He studied music in London and Leipzig, and held musical positions in England and Scotland until 1880, when he became organist of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jay Black

Black was born in New York and grew up in Brooklyn in the neighborhood of Boro Park.

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 Lafayette Riker

At a meeting of the friends of Colonel Riker held on June 7, 1862 at the Everett House, New York, which was attended by, amongst others, George W. Morton, Ex-recorder Frederick A. Tallmadge, Mr. E. B. Wood of Kings County and several officers of the Anderson Zouaves, arrangements were made for his funeral.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Leonard Black

Black was the minister of the Third Baptist Church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1855.

Like So Many Things

The dramatic web series is about an unlikely connection between two strangers in Brooklyn.

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.

Marjorie Guthrie

She also founded the Marjorie Mazia School of Dance on Sheepshead Bay Road in Brooklyn, New York, which trained young dancers in Modern Dance and Ballet in the 1950s, '60s and '70s.

Mark Newgarden

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

Marvin Vincent

Vincent graduated from Columbia University in 1851, taught in the Columbia Grammar School, was professor of classics in the Troy Methodist University from 1858 to 1862; then acting pastor of the Pacific Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Brooklyn from 1862 to 1863; and pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Troy, New York, from 1863 to 1873.

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.

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.

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.

Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan

Monk and Sharona, meanwhile go to Brooklyn to question Elmer Gratnik, a Latvian exile who might have had a motive.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Raphaele Shirley

2007 - Sunken City Preludes - PowerHouse Projects - Brooklyn, NY.

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 Kimmel

He also produced and directed the Pleasure Blister cabaret series at downtown New York City nightclub Filter 14, and the New Lost City 2004 New Year's Eve extravaganza at the Lunatarium in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

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.

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.

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.

Sonseed

Sonseed was an American Roman Catholic pop band formed at the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Brooklyn, New York in the late 1970s.

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.

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.

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.

The Epochs

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

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.

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.

Waldo Hutchins

Born in Brooklyn, Connecticut, Hutchins was graduated from Amherst (Massachusetts) College in 1842.

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.

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.

Xodus

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


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.

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.

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 Station, Terminus Cosmos

Valérian and Albert arrive at Kennedy Airport and travel to Schlomo Melsheim's house in Brooklyn.

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.

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."

Conduit current collection

Trolley lines from Brooklyn and Queens also entered Manhattan under wire, but did not use city streets.

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

Deacon McGuire

After serving as player-manager of the Toronto franchise in the International League in 1889, he had a one-year stint with the short-lived Rochester Broncos, then joined the Washington Senators, where he would stay for eight years until being traded to the Brooklyn Superbas during the 1899 season; in 1899 and 1900 he was one of the two principal catchers for Brooklyn's NL champions.

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.

Edwin Arthur Kraft

Kraft was born in New Haven and studied music at Yale University under Horatio Parker before becoming became the organist at St. Thomas's Church in Brooklyn, N.Y. He then went to Europe for three years, studying organ with Grunecke in Berlin and Alexandre Guilmant and Charles-Marie Widor in Paris.

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.

Fireproof Recording

In 1997, Adam Lasus moved to Brooklyn, New York and started the company.

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.

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.

Hadestown

While most of the recording was produced by Mr. Sickafoose at Brooklyn Recording Studio in New York, the lead vocals were often produced elsewhere in the U.S..

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.

Interstate 78 in New York

I-478 is currently the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel and approaches, connecting I-278 in Brooklyn with the Battery in Manhattan; it was once planned to continue north along the unbuilt Westway to I-78 at the Holland Tunnel.

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.

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 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.

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.

Leo Portnoff

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

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.

Martin Bisi

In 1979, Martin Bisi started BC Studio with Bill Laswell and Brian Eno in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, where he recorded many of the No Wave, punk bands, and hip-hop of the early 1980s including Lydia Lunch, Foetus, Live Skull, and Afrika Bambaata.

Norton Records

Norton's Red Hook, Brooklyn warehouse and mail order operation was heavily water damaged by Hurricane Sandy (October 29, 2012).

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.

Politics of Long Island

In 1972, Richard Nixon won Nassau, Suffolk and Queens and came within 14,000 votes of winning heavily Democratic Brooklyn.

Rodney Street

Rodney Street, Brooklyn, a frontage road to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in New York City

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.

Samuel Gursky

Samuel Louis Gursky (born October 9, 1991) is a Brooklyn, NY Based freelance filmmaker and graduate of the School of Visual Arts for Film Production with a focus in Film Editing, he has done work for The Bamboozle Festival, producing The Gursky Project.

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 Hermitt

Rodrigo Lopresti built a recording studio in a tiny windowless closet of a Brooklyn apartment he shared with Francis Benhamou.

The Hermitt is a band from Brooklyn, New York with Rodrigo Lopresti as vocalist and guitarist, along with Patrick Galligan on drums, and Kevin Brady on bass.

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.

Vannie Higgins

On the night of June 18, 1932, after attending his daughter's tap dance recital at the Knights of Columbus clubhouse in Prospect Park, Higgins was gunned down in the street while trying to protect his 7-year-old daughter.

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.

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.