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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.
The area is a growing hub for education. In 2017, New York University announced that it would invest over $500 million to renovate and expand the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and its surrounding Downtown Brooklyn-based campus. [3] Downtown Brooklyn is part of Brooklyn Community District 2 and its primary ZIP Codes are 11201 and 11217. [1]
For years enormous attention followed the criminal trials resulted when a woman known as the Central Park Jogger was badly beaten and raped. [5] The illegal drug trade flourished, causing the murder rate to soar, and dividing the city into areas ruled by different drug lords. It became known as the crack epidemic. [6]
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 ...
The Theodore Roosevelt United States Courthouse is a courthouse in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City, that houses the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. It is across the street from the Federal Building and Post Office, which houses, among other things, the Eastern District of New York's bankruptcy court.
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Olafur Eliasson's Waterfalls under the Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn has played a major role in various aspects of American culture including literature, cinema and theater as well as being home to the Brooklyn Academy of Music and to the second largest public art collection in the United States which is housed in the Brooklyn Museum.
Asheville downtown safety has been the focus of public officials and police for months, but an investigation shows worse problems outside downtown.