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Eric Adams, 110th Mayor of New York City (2022–present); 18th Borough President of Brooklyn (2014–2021) [9] Hiroaki Aoki (Restaurant Management, 1963), Olympic wrestler and founder of the Benihana chain of restaurants; Charles Barron, New York City Council member representing the 42nd District of New York City; former Black Panther
Gibbs College, New York City/Melville (1911–2009) Globe Institute of Technology , Manhattan (1985–2016) Long Island Business Institute, Flushing (2001–2024) [ 10 ] [ 11 ]
CUNY Senior Colleges and Graduate Schools. Baruch College, Gramercy Park; Brooklyn College; City College, Harlem; College of Staten Island; CUNY Graduate Center, Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
These later became English settlements, and were consolidated over time until the entirety of Kings County was the unified City of Brooklyn. The towns were, clockwise from the north: Bushwick, Brooklyn, Flatlands, Gravesend, New Utrecht, with Flatbush in the middle.
The square is the site of a number of civic buildings including the classic facades and colonnaded entrances of the 1933-built United States Courthouse, fronted by the sculpture Triumph of the Human Spirit by artist Lorenzo Pace; the New York County Courthouse; the Church of St. Andrew; the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse – known before 2003 as the Foley Square Courthouse ...
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.
Midwood is a neighborhood in the south-central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.It is bounded on the north by the Bay Ridge Branch tracks just above Avenue I and by the Brooklyn College campus of the City University of New York, and on the south by Avenue P and Kings Highway.
Although New York City Deputy Municipal Reference Librarian Thelma E. Smith described the Kensington tracts from McDonald Avenue to Coney Island Avenue as a "sub-neighborhood" of Flatbush in a 1966 annotated bibliography of neighborhood histories and reportage for city officials, [26] The New York Times would characterize Ocean Parkway as the ...