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Downtown Brooklyn was founded by the poets Barbara Henning, Rudy Baron and Wayne Berninger. [1]The first annual issue appeared in 1992. [1]The magazine was published annually and was edited by faculty and students in the English Department at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University.
Downtown Brooklyn is the third-largest central business district in New York City (after Midtown and Lower Manhattan [2]), and is located in the northwestern section of the borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is known for its office and residential buildings, such as the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower and the MetroTech Center office complex.
The Nostrand Avenue station was constructed as part of the IND Fulton Street Line, the main line of the city-owned Independent Subway System (IND)'s main line from Downtown Brooklyn to southern Queens. [4] The groundbreaking for the line was held on April 16, 1929, at Fulton Street and Arlington Place, located at the site of the future station. [5]
1923 Brooklyn elevated train crash: rail 8 [132] 1902 1902 New York City Subway explosion: explosion 8 [133] 1870 First Orange Riot: mass unrest 8 [134] 1882 1882 Spuyten Duyvil train wreck: rail 8 [135] 1857 Dead Rabbits riot: mass unrest 8 [136] 2008 303 East 51st Street crane collapse: structural collapse 7 [137] 1915 1915 New York City ...
2008 – A Woman Among Boys: A Brooklyn Basketball Story [43] – As the only woman coach of a boys team in New York City's toughest AA basketball division, Ruth Lovelace faces unique challenges, but “Coach Love” has built the Kangaroos into a powerhouse – with playoff appearances in every year of her tenure. Players on her teams work to ...
New York City has seen a cycle of modest boom and a bust in the 1980s, a major boom in the 1990s, and mixed prospects since then. This period has seen severe racial tension, a dramatic spike and fall of crime rates, and a major influx of immigrants growing the city's population past the eight million mark.
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Brooklyn (co-extensive with Kings County), on the western tip of Long Island, is the city's most populous borough. Brooklyn is known for its cultural, social, and ethnic diversity, an independent art scene, distinct neighborhoods, and a distinctive architectural heritage. Downtown Brooklyn is the largest central core neighborhood in the outer ...