Bensonhurst is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bordered on the northwest...
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"Bensonhurst Blues" is a song written by Artie Kaplan and Artie Kornfeld. It was originally released in 1971 on Kaplan's album Confessions Of A Male Chauvinist...
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Spike of Bensonhurst is a 1988 American comedy drama mafia film written and directed by Paul Morrissey and starring Sasha Mitchell. The film also features...
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Bensonhurst Park is a park in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, New York City. The park stretches from the north border at Cropsey Avenue to the south border at Lower...
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including Rags to Riches. He had the title role in the 1988 film Spike of Bensonhurst and in 1994's Class of 1999 II: The Substitute. He starred in Kickboxer...
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Chinatowns in Brooklyn (section Chinatown, Bensonhurst)
Chinatown area, forming three larger Chinatowns between Sunset Park, Bensonhurst, and Avenue U in Sheepshead Bay. While the foreign-born Chinese population...
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late the 2000s. The 19th Hole Crew, sometimes called Bensonhurst Crew, was based out of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn before it was merged into the Brooklyn faction...
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Bensonhurst Maternity Hospital was built in the mid-1920s "across Bay Parkway from JCH" (Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst). It had its share of families...
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Hamilton Bensonhurst Bath Beach New Utrecht Borough Park Mapleton lies mostly in Borough Park but its southern reaches are within Bensonhurst Dyker Heights...
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Murder of Yusef Hawkins (category Bensonhurst, Brooklyn)
City borough of Brooklyn, who was shot to death on August 23, 1989, in Bensonhurst, a predominantly Italian-American working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn...
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House of Bensonhurst, sometimes shortened to "the J" or "the JCH", was incorporated in 1927 and has helped over one million Jews in the Bensonhurst neighborhood...
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include central Flatbush, East Flatbush, Brownsville, East New York, Bensonhurst and Sheepshead Bay (particularly its Madison subsection). Many hospitals...
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homonymous album the Bensonhurst Blues, written by Artie Kaplan and Artie Kornfeld, and produced by the EMI Records. The Bensonhurst Blues, which is considered...
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Al Sharpton (section Bensonhurst)
group of 10 to 30 white Italian-American youths in Bensonhurst, a Brooklyn neighborhood. One Bensonhurst resident, armed with a handgun, shot and killed...
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New York trilogy Forty Deuce (1982), Mixed Blood (1985), and Spike of Bensonhurst (1988). From 1965 to 1973, Morrissey ran the publicity and filmmaking...
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Mary T. Codd, who received 3.41%. Frank J. Barbaro, Assemblyman from Bensonhurst Melvin Klenetsky Ed Koch, incumbent mayor Koch won the Democratic Primary...
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William DeMeo (category People from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn)
the role of Sammy Gravano in the 2018 film Gotti. DeMeo was raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and attended Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School. His...
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southwestern edge of the borough on Gravesend Bay. The neighborhood borders Bensonhurst and New Utrecht to the northeast across 86th Street; Dyker Beach Park...
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Dan Hedaya (category People from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn)
to a Sephardic Jewish family from Aleppo, Syria. Hedaya was raised in Bensonhurst. While a student at Tufts University, he began performing at the campus...
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Anthony Catanzaro Square Asser Levy Ascenzi Square Bath Beach Betsy Head Bensonhurst Bocchino-Dente Memorial Plaza Breukelen Ballfields Brooklyn Bridge Brooklyn...
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informant by fellow crime family members. Scibetta was born and raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, like his future brother-in-law Gravano. He was the only son...
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Sammy Gravano (category People from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn)
in September 2017. Salvatore Gravano was born on March 12, 1945, in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, to Giorlando "Gerry" and Caterina "Kay" Gravano. He was the...
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film, a collaboration with Will Ferrell's Funny or Die entitled "The Bensonhurst Spelling Bee" featuring Ripa, Consuelos, and their son, Michael. The...
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Morrissey cast Harvey in two of his films Mixed Blood (1985) and Spike of Bensonhurst (1988). Harvey attended South Philadelphia High School through the 11th...
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discovers that an Italian-American woman named Angela "Angie" Tucci from Bensonhurst has been hired as his temp secretary. Initially upset at being the only...
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Yeshiva Ohel Moshe (category Bensonhurst, Brooklyn)
Yeshiva Ohel Moshe is a Bensonhurst-based, Orthodox Jewish day school and shul (synagogue) founded in 1927. Since 1949, the school and the synagogue,...
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(established in 1941) allowed the use of FHA funding for defense housing in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, owing to the proximity of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Trump planned...
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Jerry Ferrara (category People from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn)
Power as Joe Proctor. Ferrara was born in New York City and grew up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. He is of Italian descent. He graduated from New Utrecht High...
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criminal and mobster who was born in Bushwick, Brooklyn and died in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. He was an associate of the Bonanno crime family who murdered...
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James Hiroyuki Liao (category People from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn)
game Ghost of Tsushima (2020). Liao was born on February 6, 1976, in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, New York. His father is Taiwanese, and his...
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