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Thomas Hoepker: View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11 (2001) View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11 is a color photograph by German photographer Thomas Hoepker. It shows five people sitting on the banks of the East River in the Williamsburg neighborhood of the New York City Borough of Brooklyn while a cloud of smoke ...
Bill Wilson. Born. 1948 (age 75–76) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Occupation. Pastor. Bill Wilson (born 1948) [1] is the founder and senior pastor of Metro World Child, America's largest ministry to children with branches in various nations. He is a well-known speaker, author, pastor and advocate for poor, inner city children all over the world.
Hoe Avenue peace meeting. The Hoe Avenue peace meeting was an important gathering of gangs that took place in the Bronx, New York City, on December 8, 1971. [1][2][3] It was called to propose a general truce and an unprecedented inter-gang alliance. The impetus for the meeting was the murder of "Black Benjie", a peace keeper of the Ghetto Brothers.
Mau Maus was the name of a 1950s street gang in New York City. The book and the adapted film The Cross and the Switchblade and biography Run Baby Run document the life of its most famous leader Nicky Cruz. Their name was derived from the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya. Nicky Cruz wrote a book about his experiences called Run Baby Run.
Most was born to a Jewish family [1] in Brooklyn, New York City. He lived in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in 1970. He attended Lehigh University for three years from 1970 to 1973, but did not graduate. Originally intending to study engineering, he changed his major to business after his first semester.
Yasiin Bey was born Dante Terrell Smith on December 11, 1973, in Brooklyn, New York City, [8] the son of Sheron Smith and Abdulrahman Smith. [9] The eldest of 12 children and step-children, he was raised by his mother in Brooklyn, while his father lived in New Jersey.
Trevor George Smith Jr. [10] [11] [12] was born in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, on May 20, 1972, to Geraldine Green and Trevor Smith Sr., who both were immigrants from Jamaica.
Jemini the Gifted One. Thomas Smith, better known by his stage name Jemini the Gifted One, is a rapper from Brooklyn, New York. [1] He has most notably worked with Danger Mouse on the 2003 album Ghetto Pop Life, which features rappers such as The Pharcyde, Tha Alkaholiks, J-Zone, and Prince Po from Organized Konfusion.