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The 75th Precinct today, located on Sutter Ave., East New York, Brooklyn. In the 1980s, Brooklyn, New York was suffering from a crack epidemic.Michael Dowd worked in the NYPD's 75th Precinct in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn, which was considered to be one of the most dangerous precincts in the United States at the time.
Dowd was born on January 10, 1961, in Brooklyn, New York City, the third of seven children in an Irish Catholic family. [5] He grew up in Brentwood, Long Island, on a block mostly populated by the families of police officers and firefighters. [5] According to Dowd, he was a good student in high school. [5]
Battle for Brooklyn is a 2011 documentary that follows the stories of a Brooklyn neighborhood as the residents fight to save their homes from being destroyed by an impending real estate project. The film attempts to show the unjust outcomes that are possible when moneyed interests partner up with government entities to outweigh the rights of ...
In the late ’80s and early ’90s, Dowd was an officer at Brooklyn’s 75th Precinct, situated in a particularly rough neighborhood that led the city in homicides and police shootings.
The documentary focuses on the Brooklyn community's identification with the ball club, and with the perennial "wait till next year" attitude of both players and fans associated with the Dodgers' repeated inability to defeat the "upper class" New York Yankees for the World Series title, despite winning several pennants. The Brooklyn players ...
Brooklyn Matters is a 2007 documentary film, produced and directed by Isabel Hill and edited by Marian Sears Hunter. The film describes the fight against the Atlantic Yards development project in Brooklyn , New York .
The park hosting the World Baseball Classic Qualifiers in 2016, after it was resurfaced with artificial turf Detailed view of the stadium and field. In 2005 and 2014, MCU Park hosted the New York–Penn League All-Star Game. In early 2015, the New York University Violets moved in and made Maimonides
Washington Park was the name given to three Major League Baseball parks on two different sites in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, located at the intersection of Third Street and Fourth Avenue. The two sites were diagonally opposite each other, on the southeast and northwest corners. Gowanus House