Brownsville is a residential neighborhood in eastern Brooklyn in New York City. The neighborhood is generally bordered by Crown Heights to the northwest;...
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Ka (rapper) (redirect from Brownsville Ka)
on August 11, 1972, in New York City and grew up in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. He initially developed an interest in hip hop as a child...
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Bruce Carrington (category Boxers from Brooklyn)
Carrington Jr. is an American professional boxer. Growing up in Brownsville, Brooklyn Carrington admitted his parents did a very good job from keeping...
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Henry Hill (category People from Brownsville, Brooklyn)
consisting of Henry and his seven siblings, grew up in Brownsville, a working-class neighborhood of Brooklyn. Hill was dyslexic and performed poorly at school...
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(separated from Bushwick in 1840, annexed to Brooklyn in 1854) Bedford-Stuyvesant Boerum Hill Brooklyn Heights Brownsville Carroll Gardens City Line Clinton Hill...
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Sean Price (category People from Brownsville, Brooklyn)
was also close friends with actor Ryan Phillippe. Price lived in Brownsville, Brooklyn. He was a Muslim, having converted in 2009. Studio albums Monkey...
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Abe Reles (category People from Brownsville, Brooklyn)
the son of Jewish immigrants from Galicia, was born in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York, on May 10, 1906. His father, Sam, worked in one...
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5 - Queens (QNS) & Brooklyn (BK) Division 6 - Brooklyn (BK) Division 7 - Brooklyn (BK) & Staten Island (SI) Division 8 - Brooklyn (BK) Division 9 - Manhattan...
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Mike Tyson (category People from Brownsville, Brooklyn)
Bedford-Stuyvesant until their financial burdens necessitated a move to Brownsville when Tyson was 10 years old. Throughout his childhood, Tyson lived in...
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Bern Nadette Stanis (category People from Brownsville, Brooklyn)
Night. One of five children, Stanis was born and raised in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York City. Her paternal grandparents were from Carriacou...
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Allan Lichtman (category People from Brownsville, Brooklyn)
the impeachment of Donald Trump. Lichtman was born in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School...
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Phil Silvers (category People from Brownsville, Brooklyn)
Phil Silvers (born Phillip Silver; May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedic actor, known as "The King of Chutzpah". His...
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Vince Edwards (category People from Brownsville, Brooklyn)
1968 war film The Devil's Brigade. Edwards was born in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York City, New York, to Julia and Vincento Zoine, an Italian-American...
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Ronnie Lichtman (category People from Brownsville, Brooklyn)
University and Stony Brook University. Ronnie Lichtman was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Her late father, Emanuel Lichtman, was an optometrist and her late...
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whites and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis (Yale University Press, 2003). online Pritchett, Wendell E. Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the changing...
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Al Davis (boxer) (category People from Brownsville, Brooklyn)
grew up in the rough and tough, then-predominantly Jewish Brownsville section of Brooklyn. His father ran a produce pushcart and later owned a candy...
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Al Lewis (category People from Brownsville, Brooklyn)
Ted Lewis, his son, firmly said his father was born in 1923 in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York. Other sources placed his birth in Wolcott, New York,...
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the warehouse." Stephen Jacob Smith (14 May 2013). "Closing in on Brownsville: Brooklyn Gentrification Nears the Final Frontier". Observer. Sharp, Sonja...
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Junius Street station (category Brownsville, Brooklyn)
Located at the intersection of Junius Street and Livonia Avenue in Brownsville, Brooklyn, it is served by the 3 train at all times except late nights, when...
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Jelani Alladin (category People from Brownsville, Brooklyn)
Award-winning miniseries Fellow Travelers. Alladin grew up in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. He attended high school in New Canaan,...
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Joseph C. Amberg (category Criminals from Brooklyn)
alongside associate Morris Kessler. The pair were ambushed in a Brownsville, Brooklyn auto repair garage and, after being ordered to line up against the...
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Christopher Bouzy (category People from Brownsville, Brooklyn)
platform. Christopher Bouzy was born on May 22, 1975. He grew up in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in what he described as a lower-middle-class upbringing, with his...
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by H. Fox & Company in Brooklyn, New York starting c. 1900. It was said to be invented in a basement in Brownsville, Brooklyn, according to David Fox...
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Louis Capone (category People from Brownsville, Brooklyn)
where he grew up in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn. As an adult, Capone moved to Brownsville, Brooklyn. Capone was described as a suave, well-groomed...
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Nicholas Corozzo (category People from Brownsville, Brooklyn)
Nicholas Corozzo was born at 1825 Pitkin Avenue in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. Corozzo's first headquarters was located in a small candy...
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1968 New York City teachers' strike (redirect from Oceanhill-Brownsville)
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...
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RZA (category People from Brownsville, Brooklyn)
50 Greatest Producers Ever. Diggs was born on July 5, 1969, in Brownsville, Brooklyn. He was named after the Kennedy brothers Robert and John Fitzgerald...
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Saratoga Avenue station (IRT New Lots Line) (category Brownsville, Brooklyn)
Located at the intersection of Saratoga Avenue and Livonia Avenue in Brownsville, Brooklyn, it is served by the 3 train at all times except late nights, when...
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Riddick Bowe (category People from Brownsville, Brooklyn)
Tyson. "We went to school together in the sixth grade in P.S. 396 (in Brownsville.) I really didn't know him," Bowe recalled. Bowe was training at the...
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