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Of the 55 local Brooklyn routes operated by the New York City Transit Authority, roughly 35 are the direct descendants of one or more streetcar lines, and most of the others were introduced in full or in part as new bus routes by the 1930s. Only the B32, the eastern section of the B82 (then the B50), the B83, and the B84 were created by New ...
Borough Park [6] (also spelled Boro Park [7] [8]) is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City.The neighborhood is bordered by Bensonhurst to the south, Dyker Heights to the southwest, Sunset Park to the west, Kensington and Green-Wood Cemetery to the northeast, Flatbush to the east, and Mapleton to the southeast.
Ferry service linking Manhattan and Brooklyn launched in 1814, and Brooklyn's population exploded from 4,000 to nearly 100,000 by 1850. [ citation needed ] Fort Greene was known as The Hill and was home to a small commuter population, several large farms—the Post Farm, the Spader farm, the Ryerson Farm, and the Jackson farm—and a burial ground.
During his life, "Joey" Amberg amassed a lengthy criminal record. On January 11, 1914, Amberg was arrested by Detective Capone in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The police had searched for him in connection with a shooting. On October 7, 1913, Amberg had shot two men, Joseph Schaefer and David Goldstein, both of Brooklyn, New York City. Goldstein had ...
The New York City teachers' strike of 1968 was a months-long confrontation between the new community-controlled school board in the largely black Ocean Hill–Brownsville neighborhoods of Brooklyn and New York City's United Federation of Teachers. It began with a one day walkout in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district.
Pages in category "People from Brownsville, Brooklyn" The following 93 pages are in this category, out of 93 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Brownsville affair, or the Brownsville raid, was an incident of racial discrimination that occurred in 1906 in the Southwestern United States due to resentment by white residents of Brownsville, Texas, of the Buffalo Soldiers, black soldiers in a segregated unit stationed at nearby Fort Brown.
Abraham Reles, the son of Jewish immigrants from Galicia, [1] was born in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York, on May 10, 1906. His father, Sam, worked in one of the garment trades until sometime during the Great Depression. His father's last known occupation was peddling knishes on the streets of Brownsville.