The neighborhood of Gravesend, Brooklyn, New York in the United States is said by some to have been named for 's-Gravenzande.
The victims, twin brothers George and Vincent Chin (16) and their brother Winston (13), were from Brooklyn, New York.
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.
Law clerk Lawrence "Larry" Jordan had recently graduated from law school and was an intern at the Brooklyn District Attorney office.
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.
Weisbogel died at age 74 or 75 and was buried in an unmarked grave at Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
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.
In 1956, Joe Profaci, in Brooklyn (New York City), was recorded talking about the export of Sicilian oranges with Nino Cottone, in Sicily.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Blahzay Blahzay was an East Coast hip hop group from Brooklyn, New York, consisting of DJ PF Cuttin and MC Out Loud.
Bloody Kisses is the third album by the Brooklyn band Type O Negative.
After emerging from the tunnel under Fourth Avenue, the two separate Sea Beach tracks rise on either side of a ramp which formerly connected to the original line to the Brooklyn shore at 65th Street in Bay Ridge.
Elijah Paine (1757–1842), a Federalist U.S. senator from Vermont (1795–1801) was born in town.
Also located in Brooklyn are Forrest County Agricultural High School (grades 9-12) and South Forrest Attendance Center (grades 1-8).
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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In January 1886, the Union Bridge Company from New York was awarded the contract to build a railway bridge across the Hawkesbury River.
Brooklyn, Hants County, Nova Scotia (for postal purposes it may also be referred to as Newport, Nova Scotia)
In 1868 Tibbets subdivided the property into smaller lots and allowed the Oregon Central Railroad to cross the property.
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.
The Christian Flag was first conceived on September 26, 1897, at Brighton Chapel on Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York in the United States.
Chubb Rock is featured in the new single "Summertime Anthem" by Eric Roberson in which they filmed the video on the streets of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, New York where he credited his wife and manager, KeKe Simpson, for putting the duo together.
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.
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.
She and her husband, Adonijah "Carl" Williams, have two children and reside in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
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.
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.
In the 1970s, he purchased Château Clarke which—despite substantial investment—never produced a wine classified as outstanding, although it eventually produced a kosher wine which was sold at a considerable profit in Brooklyn, New York amongst the Hasidic community with his wife Nadine acting as saleswoman.
Bruce was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Brooklyn, and Washington, D.C. In 1917 he left high school to join the Navy and was eventually chief radio electrician in the transatlantic communication service, serving at the Otter Cliffs Radio Station in Bar Harbor, Maine.
They have two children, Yaakov and Moishe, and live in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
The album was named after the recording studio in Brooklyn where it was recorded.
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.
"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.
Another ongoing dispute is the status of two inter-connected eruvin in Brooklyn: The Flatbush eruv and the Boro Park eruv.
Faustina Hodges taught music and also worked as a church organist in Brooklyn and Philadelphia, and began publishing songs and piano/organ music in the 1850s.
Flight of the Knife is the second album from the Brooklyn area indie rock artist Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears.
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.
He also negotiated the donation of the privately owned Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana to Indiana University.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match is the second album by Afuche, a band founded in Brooklyn in 2008.
In New York, more than half the Jamaican expatriate population resides in Brooklyn.
In March 2007, the group won at the World Reggae Soundclash in Brooklyn, New York (in the International Cup‐Garrison Showdown category).
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.
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.
Black was born in New York and grew up in Brooklyn in the neighborhood of Boro Park.
Jennifer Egan (born September 7, 1962) is an American novelist and short story writer who lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
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.
In 1894, he founded and was president of the Eagan Schools of Business in Hoboken, New Jersey, Union Hill, Hudson County, New Jersey, and Hackensack, New Jersey and Brooklyn.
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.
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.
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.
Jukeboxer is the moniker of Brooklyn-based musician Noah Wall.
The Municipality of the District of West Hants funded the system's eastern expansion from Wolfville through Hantsport to Brooklyn.
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.
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.
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.
Newgarden resides with children's illustrator and author Megan Montague Cash in an ex-funeral parlor in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and blogs for public radio’s TransportationNation.org.
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.
Meyer Seewald is a Crown Heights resident who started an organization dedicated to eradicating child sexual abuse (CSA) within the Orthodox Jewish Community.
Michael Chaim Nelson is a Councilman representing the New York City Council's 48th District, covering the Midwood, Sheepshead Bay, Homecrest, and Brighton Beach sections of Brooklyn.
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.
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.
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Price retained the northern part of his land and developed it as the suburb of Brooklyn.
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 are native New Yorkers: Telli grew up in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn while Jah-Jah was born and raised in The Bronx.
After they received word that Ocey was pregnant, the three sisters chased him to Canada and virtually kidnapped Ocey to Brooklyn.
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.
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.
On April 20, 1950, he discovered the minor planet (1575) Winifred at Brooklyn, Indiana.
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.
He was raised in Brooklyn, graduating from James Madison High School in 1965.
He is a founding member of Group Thought, a philosophy collective based in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
She works for both Brooklyn and Woodstock and promotes farm-based food and drink.
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.
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.
Shabazz the Disciple or Scientific Shabazz, is a rapper from the Red Hook Houses of Red Hook, Brooklyn.
The revived term was less often applied to Park Slope and Sunset Park, which had come to regard themselves as distinct.
South Ferry, Brooklyn, the former ferry landing at the foot of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn
The Flipmode Squad as a Brooklyn crew released their debut album The Imperial Album in 1998.
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.
He grew up in the dark streets of the Brooklyn district of New York, where he became an assistant in a boxing gym.
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.
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.
Celebs, performers, and newsmakers come to Cat's stoop in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn and sit for a 15-20 minute interview covering career highlights, life story, issues of the day and current projects.
The band nexus of operations for the period of 2002-2003 and again from 2006 to today is Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
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.
Hamm currently serves as the director of the Journalism and New Media Studies program at St. Joseph’s College, in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
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.
Born in Brooklyn, Connecticut, Hutchins was graduated from Amherst (Massachusetts) College in 1842.
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 is the fifth album by the Brooklyn band Type O Negative.
Xodus: The New Testament is the second album by Brooklyn-based hip hop group X Clan.
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.
He is the eldest son of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam, the first Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe, who in his will divided the leadership of the Klausenburger Hasidim between his two sons, Rabbi Zvi Elimelech and Rabbi Shmuel Dovid (the present Sanz-Klausenburger Rebbe of Brooklyn).
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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.
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 Michael Wolfe (born 29 April 1939, Brooklyn) is an American astrophysicist, professor and the former Director of the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences at the University of California, San Diego.
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.
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.
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 was founded by Northside Media Group (brothers Scott and Daniel Stedman, the same team behind the popular free alt-weekly L Magazine).
Valérian and Albert arrive at Kennedy Airport and travel to Schlomo Melsheim's house in Brooklyn.
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.
William B. Cronyn House, also known as the House at 271 Ninth Street, is a historic home located in Brooklyn, New York, New York
"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.
Born in Brooklyn, he attended public and parochial schools, graduated from St. James Academy in Brooklyn in 1916, and from the law department of Fordham University in 1925.
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.
Excepter is an experimental music group from Brooklyn, founded in 2002 by No-Neck Blues Band member John Fell Ryan.
In 1997, Adam Lasus moved to Brooklyn, New York and started the company.
He moved to the United States with his family in 1979 and lived in Sheapshead Bay Brooklyn.
Listeners in the United States who had never heard of Brooklyn Bounce before assumed it was an ode to Brooklyn.
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.
Early examples of parkour and buildering are also featured, including footage of urban acrobat John Ciampa, the "Brooklyn Tarzan".
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..
Head Home is the second album and label debut from Brooklyn based alternative country band O'Death.
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.
He served with distinction and saw action at the battles of Brooklyn, White Plains, Trenton, and Princeton.
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.
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.
By the age of 18, Troski began performing in clubs and restaurants throughout NYC's East Village and Brooklyn such as CBGB.
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.
Also a large population of limeños have residency in New York City, especially The Bronx and Brooklyn.
He initially resided in Brooklyn, and later moved to Florida to teach music at the University of Miami.
The wife of soccer star (and former Liberian presidential candidate) George Weah owns a business in Brooklyn and lives in Staten Island.
Marlborough Farms is the debut album from Brooklyn, New York indie pop band The Ladybug Transistor.
On September 10, 2004, Marlon Legere's mother Melva placed a call to the 67th precinct in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.
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.
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.
In 1972, Richard Nixon won Nassau, Suffolk and Queens and came within 14,000 votes of winning heavily Democratic Brooklyn.
An exhibit of his work was also on view at the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa from 2 March to 6 May 2007, organized by the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain (Paris), in collaboration with the National Gallery of Canada, the Brooklyn Museum and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
Since the early 50s, some kids growing up in the areas that make up South Brooklyn have affiliated under the name South Brooklyn Boys.
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.
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.
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.
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.