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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.
1883 Brooklyn Bridge stampede: mass unrest 12 [116] 2003 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash: maritime 11 [117] 1975 LaGuardia Airport bombing: terrorism 11 [118] 1970 Trans International Airlines Flight 863: aircraft 11 [119] 1854 W. T. Jennings fire: fire 11 [92]: 29 1984 Palm Sunday massacre: homicide 10 [120] 1956 Bush Terminal explosion ...
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]
The alleged serial groper dubbed the “Park Slope Prowler” for his late-night assaults on women around Brooklyn’s Prospect Park was captured Thursday afternoon, police said.. William Nuesi ...
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]
Neighborhoods that were once considered dangerous are now much safer. Violent crime in the city has dropped by three quarters in the twelve years ending in 2005 with the murder rate at its lowest then level since 1963 with 539 murders that year, for a murder rate of 6.58 per 100,000 people, compared to 2,245 murders in 1990. [202]
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.
Asheville downtown safety has been the focus of public officials and police for months, but an investigation shows worse problems outside downtown.