Brownsville, Brooklyn
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ZIP Codes | 11212, 11233 |
Area codes | 718, 347, 929, and 917 |
Brownsville is a residential
to the west.The 1.163-square-mile (3.01 km2) area that comprises Brownsville has 58,300 residents as of the
Brownsville is part of Brooklyn Community District 16, and its primary ZIP Code is 11212.[1] It is patrolled by the 73rd Precinct of the New York City Police Department.[5] Politically it is represented by the New York City Council's 42nd and 41st Districts.[6]
History
Early development
The area that would become Brownsville was first used by the Dutch for farming, as well as manufacturing stone slabs and other things used to construct buildings.
In 1858, William Suydam parceled the land into 262 lots, providing simple two- to four-room accommodations for workers who were living there. However, Suydam vastly underestimated how undesirable the area was, and ran out of funding in 1861.[12]: 11 After failing to pay his mortgages, the land was auctioned off in 1866 to Charles S. Brown of Esopus, New York.[13] Believing the area to be useful for development,[13] Brown subdivided the area and began calling it "Brownsville", advertising the area's wide open spaces to Jews who lived in Lower Manhattan.[7][12]: 11 There were 250 houses in "Brown's Village" by 1883,[12]: 11 most of them occupied by factory workers who commuted to Manhattan.[12]: 11 The first houses in the area were built by Charles R. Miller.[13]
Through the 1880s, the area was a marshy floodplain that was used as a dumping ground. Fumes from the glue factories along Jamaica Bay would usually blow upwind into Brownsville.[12]: 11 This place was inconveniently far enough from Manhattan that the affluent refused to move to Brownsville, but the land was cheap enough that tenements could be built for the poor there.[7]
Jewish neighborhood (1880s-1950s)
Brownsville was predominantly Jewish from the 1880s until the 1950s.[7] In 1887, businessman Elias Kaplan showed the first Jewish residents around Brownsville, painting the area as favorable compared to the Lower East Side, which he described as a place where one could not get away from the holds of labor unions.[12]: 12 Kaplan built a factory and accommodations for his workers, then placed a synagogue, named Ohev Sholom, in his own factory.[12]: 12 Other manufacturers that created low-tech products like food, furniture, and metals followed suit throughout the next decade, settling their factories in Brownsville. This led to much more housing being built there. The area bounded by present-day Dumont, Rockaway, and Liberty Avenues, and Junius Street, quickly became densely populated, with "factories, workshops, and stores" located next to housing.[12] The farm of a local farmer, John J. Vanderveer, was cut up into lots and given to Jewish settlers[13] after he sold it in 1892.[14] Within three years of the first lot being distributed, there were 10,000 Jews living in Brownsville.[13] By 1904, the lots comprising the former Vanderveer farm were entirely owned by Jews, who were spread out across 4 square miles (10 km2).[13]
An estimated 25,000 people lived in Brownsville by 1900, most of whom lived in two-story wooden frame accommodations built for two families each. Many of these buildings were grossly overcrowded, with up to eight families living in some of these two-family houses.[12]: 13 They were utilitarian, and according to one New York Herald article, "grossly unattractive".[13] Many of these houses lacked amenities like running water, and their wood construction made these houses susceptible to fires. New brick-and-stone houses erected in the early 1900s were built with indoor plumbing and less prone to fire.[12]: 13, 15 The quality of life was further decreased by the fact that there was scant infrastructure to be found in the area,[13] and as a result, the unpaved roads were used as open sewers.[12]: 13 Compounding the problem, land prices were high in Brownsville (with lots available for $50 in 1907, then sold for $3,000 two years later), so in order to make their land purchases worthwhile, developers were frequently inspired to build as many apartments on a single lot as they possibly could.[12]: 13–15 Within twenty years of the factories' development, the area acquired a reputation as a vicious slum and breeding ground for crime. By 1904, 22 of the 25 housing units in Brownsville were tenement housing; three years later, only one of these 25 housing units was not a tenement.[12]: 15 It became as dense as the very densely packed Lower East Side, according to one account.[7] This also led to dangerous conditions; a 1935 collapse of a tenement stairway killed two people and injured 43 others.[15] This overcrowding was despite the availability of empty space in the fringes of Brownsville. There were also no playgrounds in the area, and the only park in the vicinity was Betsy Head Park.[12]: 16–17
In the early 20th century, the vast majority of Brownsville residents were born outside the United States; in 1910, 66% of the population were first-generation immigrants, and 80% of these immigrants were from Russia.[12] By 1920, over 80,000 of the area's 100,000 inhabitants were Russian Jews, and Brownsville had been nicknamed "Little Jerusalem".[16]: 108 In the 1930s it was considered the most densely populated district in all of Brooklyn.[17]: 435 Brownsville was also considered to have the highest density of Jews of any place in the United States through the 1950s.[16]: 108 The population remained heavily Jewish until the middle of the century, and the neighborhood boasted some seventy Orthodox synagogues.[17]: 500 Many of these synagogues still exist in Brownsville, albeit as churches.[18]
Brownsville was also a place for radical political causes during this time. In 1916, Margaret Sanger set up the first birth control clinic in America on Amboy Street.[7][17]: 500 Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the neighborhood elected Socialist and American Labor Party candidates to the state assembly. Two Socialist candidates for mayor in 1929 and 1932 both received roughly a quarter of Brownsville residents' mayoral votes. Socialist attitudes prevailed among Brownsville residents until World War II.[12]: 38 The area's Jewish population participated heavily in civil rights movements, rallying against such things as poll taxes, Jim Crow laws, and segregation in schools.[16]: 110
The area was fairly economically successful in its heyday. In 1942, there were 372 stores, including 8 banks and 43 stores selling menswear, along a 3-mile (4.8 km) stretch of Pitkin Avenue, which employed a combined 1,000 people and generated an estimated $90 million annually (equal to about $1,678,000,000 today if adjusted for inflation).[12]: 31 [19] The median income of $2,493 in 1933 (about $58,678 today) was twice that of a family living in the Lower East Side, who earned a median of $1,390 (about $32,717 today) but lower than that of a middle-class family in outer Brooklyn ($4,320, inflation-adjusted to $101,681) or the Bronx ($3,750, inflation-adjusted to $88,265).[12]: 32 [19] The Fortunoff's furniture chain had its roots on Livonia Avenue, its flagship store overshadowed by the tracks of New York City Subway's New Lots Line from 1922 to 1964, eventually expanding elsewhere in the New York metropolitan area.[8][20] At one point in the 1943 published book, New York City Market Analysis, it had described Brownsville as having a variety of small industry unlike Lower East Side. The book also mentioned the Jewish populations were a mix of Russian, Austrian, and Polish immigrants and were 80% of the foreign born population in the neighborhood.[21]
In the 1930s, Brownsville achieved notoriety as the birthplace of Murder, Inc.,[7] who contracted to kill between 400 and 1,000 people through the 1940s.[22] The organizations' criminal businesses also extended to nearby neighborhoods of Ocean Hill and East New York. The members mainly consisted of Jewish and Italian Americans as these neighborhoods during that time were mainly populated by Jewish and Italian enclaves. A film about the organization, Murder Inc., was produced and released in 1960.[23]
Late 20th century
African Americans had begun moving into Brooklyn in large numbers in the early 20th century. The adjacent Bedford-Stuyvesant was the first large African American community of Brooklyn. In the 1930s, Brownsville began to receive growing numbers of African Americans. Most of the new residents were poor and socially disadvantaged, especially the new African-American residents, who were mostly migrants from the Jim Crow-era South where they were racially discriminated against.[16]: 110 In 1940, black residents made up 6% of Brownsville's population. The 1943 book New York City Market Analysis indicated the small but growing African American population was concentrated in the central portion of the neighborhood while most of the neighborhood was still populated by Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Although integration did take place in the neighborhood, there were racial tensions as well.[21][24] By 1950, there were double the number of blacks, most of whom occupied the neighborhood's most undesirable housing.[12]: 84 At the same time, new immigration quotas had reduced the number of Russian Jews who were able to immigrate to the United States.[16]: 110
Spurred on by urban planner Robert Moses, the city replaced some of Brownsville's old tenements with public housing blocks.[19] Although the neighborhood was racially segregated, there were more attempts at improved quality of life, public mixing, and solidarity between black and Jewish neighbors than could be found in most other neighborhoods. However, due to socioeconomic barriers imposed by the disparities between the two populations, most of these improvements never came.[12]: 6, 95–98 Compounding the matter, the newly arrived African-American residents were mainly industrial workers who had moved to Brownsville just as the area's factories were going out of business, so the black residents were more economically disadvantaged than the Jews who had historically lived in Brownsville. Finally, although both blacks and Jews living in Brownsville had been subject to ethnic discrimination, the situation for blacks was worse, as they were banned from some public places where Jews were allowed, and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) generally behaved more harshly toward blacks than toward Jews.[16]: 110
The breaking point for the area's Jewish population came about in the 1950s, when the New York City Housing Authority decided to build more new public housing developments in blighted portions of Brownsville. The Jewish population quickly moved out, even though the new NYCHA developments were actually in better condition than the old wooden tenements.[12]: 5 Citing increased crime and their desire for social mobility, Jews left Brownsville en masse, with many black and Latino residents moving in, especially into the area's housing developments.[12]: 5 [25]: 19 For instance, in the Van Dyke Houses, the black population in 1956 was 57% and the white population that year was 43%, with a little over one percent of residents receiving welfare benefits. Seven years later, 72% of the residents were black, 15% Puerto Rican, and the development had the highest rate of per-capita arrests of any housing development citywide.[16]: 110
Through the 1960s, its population became largely African American, and Brownsville's unemployment rate was 17 percent, twice the city's as a whole.[19] The newly majority-black Brownsville neighborhood had few community institutions or economic opportunities. It lacked a middle class, and its residents did not own the businesses they relied upon.[25]: 19 In his book Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto, W.E. Pritchett described the neighborhood as a "ghetto" whose quality of life was declining by the year. The NYCHA housing encouraged the creation of an African-American and Latino population that was poorer than the Jewish population it replaced.[12]: 5–6 In 1965, sociologist and then-future U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a report about black poverty entitled The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, in which he cited the fact that the 24% of the nation's black communities were single-mother families, an attribute closely tied to poverty in these communities.[26] At that time, Brownsville and East New York's single-mother rate was almost twice the national rate, at 45%. Backlash against the report, mainly on accusations of victim blaming, caused leaders to overlook Moynihan's proposals to improve poor black communities' quality of life, and the single-mother rate in Brownsville grew.[16]: 116
In 1966, black and Latino residents created the Brownsville Community Council in an effort to reverse the poverty and crime increases. The BCC secured welfare funding for 3,000 people, secure housing tenancies for 4,000 people, and voting rights for hundreds of new registrants. It closed down a block of Herzl Street for use as a play area, and it created the biweekly Brownsville Counselor newspaper to inform residents about government programs and job opportunities.[12]: 200–204 However, in spite of the BCC's efforts, crime went up, with a threefold increase in reported homicides from ten in 1960 to over thirty in 1966; a doubling of arrests from 1,883 in 1956 to over 3,901 in 1966; and claims that there could actually have been more than six times as much crime than was reported. Multiple robberies of businesses were reported every day, with robbers simply lifting or bending the roll-down metal gates that protected many storefronts. City officials urged people to not use public transportation to travel to Brownsville.[12]: 205
Brownsville began experiencing large-scale rioting and social disorder around this time. These problems manifested themselves in September 1967. A riot occurred following the death of an 11-year-old African American boy named Richard Ross, who was killed by an African-American NYPD detective, John Rattley, at the corner of St. Johns Place and Ralph Avenue. Rattley believed Ross had mugged a 73-year-old Jewish man.
By 1970, the 130,000-resident population of Brownsville
Meanwhile, rioting and disorder continued. In June 1970, two men set fire to garbage bags to protest the New York City Department of Sanitation's reduction of trash collection pickups in Brownsville from six times to twice per week. In the riots that followed this arson, one man was killed and multiple others were injured.[12]: 239 [37] In May 1971, the mostly black residents of Brownsville objected to reductions in Medicaid, welfare funds, and drug prevention programs in a peaceful protest that soon turned violent.[38] In the ensuing riot, protesters conflicted with police, with windows being broken, children stealing rides aboard buses, housewives tipping over banana stands, and the New York City Fire Department fighting over 100 fires in a single night.[19][35] By then, people were afraid to go out at night, yet the 400 or so white families in south Brownsville were primarily concerned about housing remaining affordable.[35] The streets had empty storefronts, with one block of Pitkin Avenue having over two-thirds of its 16 storefronts lying vacant.[12]: 240 In 1970, Mayor John Lindsay referred to the area, which had been the city's poorest for several years, as "Bombsville" because of its high concentration of empty lots and burned-out buildings.[37]
Improvement and current status
After a wave of arson throughout the 1970s ravaged the low-income communities of New York City, many of the residential structures in Brownsville were left seriously damaged or destroyed, and Brownsville became synonymous for urban decay in many aspects.[12]: 6–7 Even at the beginning of this arson wave, 29% of residents were impoverished, a number that would increase in later years.[39] The city began to rehabilitate many formerly abandoned tenement-style apartment buildings and designate them low-income housing beginning in the late 1970s. Marcus Garvey Village, whose townhouse-style three-story apartment buildings had front doors and gardens, was an example of such low-income development that did not lower crime and poverty, as was intended; instead, the houses became the home base of a local gang, and poverty went up to 40%.[39] However, the East Brooklyn Congregations' Nehemiah Housing, which also constructed buildings in East New York and Spring Creek, served to help residents find affordable housing with a good quality of life.[12]: 258–259 [40]
The neighborhood's crime rate decreased somewhat by the 1980s. Many subsidized multi-unit townhouses and newly constructed apartment buildings were built on vacant lots across the 1,200-acre (490 ha) expanse of the neighborhood, and from 2000 to 2003, applications for construction of residential buildings in Brownsville increased sevenfold.[36] By 2015, many community organizations had been formed to improve the quality of life in parts of Brownsville. Changes included temporary markets being erected there as well as commercial developments in residential areas.[41]: 8 (PDF p. 5)
However, these improvements are limited to certain sections of Brownsville. In 2013, 39% of residents fell below the poverty line, compared to 43% in 2000,[19] but the poverty rate of Brownsville is still relatively high,[36][42] being twice the city's overall rate as well as 13% higher than that of nearby Newark, New Jersey.[19] Brownsville families reported a median income of $15,978 as of 2008, below the United States Census poverty threshold.[43] There is a high rate of poverty in the neighborhood's northeastern section, which is inhabited disproportionately by African-Americans and Latinos. The overall average income in Brownsville is lower than that of the rest of Brooklyn and the rest of New York City.[41]: 8 (PDF p. 5)
The reasons for Brownsville's lack of wholesale gentrification are numerous. One reporter for the magazine The Nation observed that the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pico-Union, which had a poverty rate similar to Brownsville's in 2000, had become a Businessweek "next hot neighborhood" by 2007. Brownsville had not seen a similar revitalization because, unlike Pico-Union, it had not been surrounded by gentrified neighborhoods; did not have desirable housing; and was not a historic district or an area of other significance.[19] In addition, Brownsville is unlike similar neighborhoods in New York City that had since gentrified. The South Bronx's coastline gave way to attractions like Barretto Point Park; Bedford-Stuyvesant offered brownstone townhouses comparable to those in affluent Park Slope, Fort Greene, and Prospect Heights; and Bushwick and Greenpoint became popular places for young professional workers once Williamsburg had become highly sought due to its waterfront location and proximity to Manhattan.[19] By contrast, Brownsville is surrounded by other high-poverty, high-crime neighborhoods like East New York, Ocean Hill, and East Flatbush.[19] Its high concentration of public housing developments has traditionally prevented gentrification in this area.[19] Brownsville is still majority African-American and Latino, with exactly two Jewish-owned businesses in Brownsville in 2012.[44]
A columnist for The New York Times, writing for the paper's "Big City" section on 2012, stated that the many improvements to the city's overall quality of life, enacted by then-mayor Michael Bloomberg since 2002, "might have happened in Lithuania for all the effect they have had (or could have) on the lives of people in Brownsville."[45] On the other hand, the area's lack of gentrification might have kept most of residents' money within the local Brownsville economy. The area's largest employer is supposedly the United States Postal Service, and the lack of mobility for many residents encourages them to buy from local stores instead.[45] Kay Hymowitz wrote in her 2017 book, The New Brooklyn: What It Takes to Bring a City Back, that Brownsville was "the permanent ghetto" and that despite the gentrification in other Brooklyn neighborhoods, Brownsville contained a "concentrated, multigenerational black poverty" that caused its development to "remain static".[16]: 107–108
Geography and land use
The total land area is 1.163 square miles (3.01 km2), and the
Residential development
As of 2008, there were a total of 28,298 housing units in Brownsville.
Public housing developments include:[52]
- 104–114 Tapscott Street; one 4-story building.[49]
- Brownsville Houses; 27 buildings, 6- and 7 stories tall.[49]
- Glenmore Plaza; four buildings, 10, 18 and 24 stories tall.[49]
- Howard Avenue; five buildings, 3 stories tall.[49]
- Howard Avenue-Park Place; eight buildings, 3 stories tall.[49]
- Howard Houses; ten buildings, 7- and 13 stories tall.[49]
- Hughes Apartments; three 22-story buildings.[49]
- Lenox Road-Rockaway; three buildings, total 74 units.[49]
- Marcus Garvey (Group A); three buildings, 6 and 14 stories tall.[49]
- Ralph Avenue Rehab; five 4-story buildings.[49]
- Reverend Randolph Brown; two 6-story buildings.[49]
- Seth Low Houses; four buildings, 17 and 18 stories tall.[49]
- Sutter Avenue-Union Street; three rehabilitated tenement buildings, 4 and 6 stories tall.[49]
- Tapscott Street Rehab; eight 4-story rehabilitated tenement buildings.[49]
- Tilden Houses; eight 16-story buildings.[49]
- Van Dyke I; 22 buildings, 3 and 14 stories tall.[49]
- Van Dyke II; one 14-story building.[49]
- Woodson Houses; two buildings, 10 and 25 stories tall.[49]
The Livonia Avenue Initiative, a multi-phase project situated along Livonia Avenue, is intended to create 791 apartments or houses for low-income residents.[54] The initiative includes Livonia Commons, a proposed mixed-use project on the north side of Livonia Avenue. Livonia Commons' postmodern buildings will contain 270 apartments for lower-income citizens and 11,000 square feet (1,000 m2) of commercial space at ground level.[55] The initiative's 21,000 square feet (2,000 m2) of community space will host a senior center and two concentrations of school classrooms, operated by two different groups. There would also be a gym, a swimming pool, a darkroom, and some studios.[55] The entire Livonia Commons project would add 71,700 square feet (6,660 m2) of mixed-use space in multiple buildings.[54] As of 2016[update], there were 242 apartments being built, in addition to 468 affordable-housing units that had already been built in the East New York/Brownsville area.[56]
Closer to the border with Ocean Hill, there are many limestone and brownstone townhouses in addition to tenements.[36] In Brownsville, about 71% of rental housing is poorly maintained, more than the citywide rate of 56% and the boroughwide rate of 59%.[57]: 9
Empty lots
Many of Brownsville's empty lots are now
From 2013 to 2015, NYCHA sold developers 54 lots in Brownsville, totaling 441,000 square feet (41,000 m2). Some of these lots contained parks or parking lots.[41]: 12 (PDF p. 7) [62] In December 2014 the HPD issued requests for qualifications to determine which developers could build new affordable housing on one of 91 empty HPD-owned lots in Brownsville.[41]: 10–11 (PDF p. 6) [63] After controversy arose over the fact that some of these lots were actually garden sites, the HPD rescinded approval to build on 34 garden sites in Brownsville, while nine other garden sites in the area were approved for redevelopment.[61]
Points of interest
The Loews Pitkin, an opulent 85-foot-high (26 m), 2,827-seat movie theater built in 1929, was among 22 theaters in the area; the rest of the theaters had either been demolished or converted into stores.[7] The Loews Pitkin, named after theater entrepreneur Marcus Loew, had fallen in disuse by the 1970s before being revitalized in the late 2000s.[7][53] The theater's decaying interior was used as a church and a furniture store before Poko Partners bought the space in 2008 and redeveloped the theater into a charter school and retail space for $43 million.[53] The theater was renovated in response to residents' requests for more retail space, and as part of the theater's refurbishment, the charter school would open in 2012 along with 60,000 square feet (5,600 m2) of retail space.[53]
The NYPD's 65th Precinct (originally the 73rd Precinct), built in 1901, covered most of the area until its closure in the mid-1980s. The old 65th Precinct building at 1546 East New York Avenue was then sold to a family with the last name of Chen.
One block of Livonia Avenue from Barbey Street to Schenck Avenue is designated as "African Burial Ground Square", commemorating an African burial ground at the site that was discovered in 2010.
Hyman Spitz Florists, one of the businesses that dates back to Brownsville's initial settlement, was founded in 1898.[7] It persisted at the same address, 1685 Pitkin Avenue, until 2004. Hyman Spitz Florists had helped provide flowers for such occasions as Donald and Ivana Trump's wedding.[7][67]
Demographics
Based on data from the
The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 76.1% (44,364)
The entirety of Community Board 16, which comprises Brownsville, had 84,525 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 75.1 years.[57]: 2, 20 This is lower than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.[69]: 53 (PDF p. 84) [70] Most inhabitants are middle-aged adults and youth: 28% are between the ages of 0–17, 27% between 25 and 44, and 23% between 45 and 64. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 11% and 12% respectively.[57]: 2
As of 2016, the median
New York City Department of City Planning showed that in the 2020 census data, there were 40,000+ Black residents and 10,000 to 19,999 Hispanic residents. Each the White and Asian populations were less than 5000 residents.[72][73]
Police and crime
The NYPD's 73rd Precinct is located at 1470 East New York Avenue.[5] NYCHA property in the area is patrolled separately by Police Service Area #2 (P.S.A. 2).[74]
Brownsville has consistently been considered the
The social problems associated with
Fire safety
A 21,000-square-foot (2,000 m2), $32 million FDNY facility was completed at 1815 Sterling Place in 2019.
Parks, open spaces, and recreation
Parks
Just east of the
Betsy Head Park is located in a lot on the north side of Livonia Avenue bounded by Strauss Street and Thomas S. Boyland Street.[92] Opened in 1915, it is named after Betsy Head, a rich Briton, who died in 1907.[92] In 1936, a new Olympic-size swimming pool, one of 11 across the city, was added as part of a Works Progress Administration project.[93] In 2008, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Betsy Head Play Center as the first individual city landmark in Brownsville.[93]
At Livonia Avenue and Powell Street, Livonia Park is named after Livonia, in the Baltic region in what is now Latvia and Estonia. Livonia Avenue itself is so named for the same reason.[94] According to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, the park honors Livonia and its native people, the Livonians. The Livonians were never fully independent, instead being alternatively led by the Teutonic Order, Sweden, and the Russian Empire. The Kingdom of Livonia was a nominal state of Russia from 1570 to 1578 during the Livonian War, but did not actually gain independence.[94] Eventually, the Livonians were assimilated into the larger Latvian population, keeping parts of their language and a few other cultural vestiges. The Russian Empire became communist as part of the October Revolution in 1917, and Latvia and Estonia gained independence soon after, only to become part of communist Russia again until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.[94] The park itself was designated on August 15, 1969, as part of NYCHA's development of the Tilden Houses.[8][94] There are trees, benches, gaming spaces, a drinking fountain, and many grassy plots within the park.[94] The red-and-white bricks in Livonia Park feature the colors of the Latvian flag.[8]
Recreation
Brownsville also has its own recreation facility with indoor swimming pools, outdoor athletic fields, and a playground. The Brownsville Recreation Center at the corner of Linden Boulevard, Mother Gaston Boulevard, and Christopher Avenue. Like all other indoor pools in the city, the Brownsville Recreation Center requires a NYC Parks pool membership.[95] It was opened in 1953 as the Brownsville Boys' Club, a "one-room clubhouse" affiliated with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Over the next two years, the club raised $1.5 million in funds, and the city opened a brand-new recreation facility.[96] Improvements were made to the center in the late 1990s and 2000s, including $265,000 of general repairs in 1996; $400,000 of heat and air conditioning refurbishments in 1998; and a $1.5 million renovation in 2008 that entailed installing a new playground, improving amenities such as benches and lighting, and replacing the athletic field with artificial turf.[96]
The "Soul in the Hole" is a famous basketball court in Brownsville. The Hole is known for street basketball,[97] and the New York Daily News characterizes it as having the "toughest" streetball competition in Brooklyn.[98] It is located in the Brownsville Houses along Rockaway Avenue between Riverdale and Livonia Avenues.[99] Famous players who played there included Fly Williams.[100]
Other open spaces
The traffic triangle bounded by Pitkin and East New York Avenues and Legion Street was originally named Vanderveer Park after Peter L. Vandeveer, the former owner of the land constituting that triangle.[101] Vanderveer donated the land in 1896, and in 1911, it was renamed Zion Park in recognition of the Jewish community.[101][102] The Zion Park War Memorial, a monumental wall based on a design by sculptor Charles Cary Rumsey and architect Henry Beaumont Herts, was installed in the triangle and dedicated in 1925.[101] During the 1970s, the monument was heavily vandalized, but it was restored and cleaned up by the 1990s.[101] This monument features a star of David. The bas relief sculptures are mounted on a limestone stele and side pylons.[101][103]
The Wyckoff Triangle, bounded by New Lots, Riverdale, and Van Siclen Avenues, is named after local property owner Hendrick Wyckoff, who ceded the land used for the traffic triangle.[8] During the American Revolutionary War, Wyckoff was a spy for the colonists rebelling against the British. Through the 1920s, Wyckoff's family maintained the park, which is now privately maintained because it is too small to be a NYC Parks public space.[8]
Politics and government
Brownsville is a heavily Democratic area; in the 2012 presidential campaign, President Barack Obama "won what was very close to a unanimous vote" in the neighborhood.[104]
The neighborhood is part of New York's 9th congressional district, represented by Democrat Yvette Clarke as of 2013[update].[105] It is also part of the 20th State Senate district, represented by Democrat Zellnor Myrie,[106][107] and the 55th State Assembly district, represented by Democrat Latrice Walker.[108][109] Brownsville is located in New York's 41st City Council district, represented by Democrat Darlene Mealy.[110]
In the
Health care
Brownsville suffers from major
Eighty percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is lower than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 79% of residents described their health as "good", "very good", or "excellent", slightly more than the city's average of 78%.[57]: 13 For every supermarket in Brownsville, there are 15 bodegas.[57]: 10
Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center is located in the neighborhood. The hospital has suffered from violence; in 2014, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a citation to the hospital for "willful" failure to protect hospital employees after an extensive series of incidents of violence against hospital workers took place.[117]
Brownsville has one of the highest rates of psychiatric hospitalization in the city,[118] with 1,727 such hospitalizations per 100,000 adults.[69]: 46 (PDF p. 77)
The area has also historically suffered from high levels of childhood
: 8 (PDF p. 5)Education
Brownsville has significantly high
Brownsville generally has a lower ratio of college-educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018[update]. While 21% of residents have a college education or higher, 27% have less than a high school education and 52% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 40% of Brooklynites and 38% of city residents have a college education or higher.[57]: 6 The percentage of Brownsville students excelling in reading and math has been increasing, with reading achievement rising from 26 percent in 2000 to 31 percent in 2011, and math achievement rising from 20 percent to 38 percent within the same time period.[83]
Brownsville has the second-highest rate of student
Schools
Public schools are operated by the New York City Department of Education. Due to the area's high population density, there are 39 public and charter schools serving elementary and middle school students in Brownsville.[126] Numbered public primary schools include P.S. 150 Christopher; P.S. 156 Waverly; P.S. 165 Ida Posner; P.S. 184 Newport; P.S. 189 Lincoln Terrace; P.S. 219 Kennedy-King; P.S. 284 Lew Wallace; P.S. 298; P.S. 327 Dr Rose B English; P.S. 332 Charles H Houston School; I.S. 392; P.S. 396 Special Education School; P.S. 398 Walter Weaver; P.S. 41 Francis White; P.S. 770 New American Academy; and P.S/I.S. 323 Elementary School.[126] Until 2008, the neighborhood was also served by P.S. 183, the Daniel Chappie James Elementary School.[127]
There are three high schools in Brownsville; two are housed in the same building at 226 Bristol Street. Teachers Preparatory opened in September 2001, while Frederick Douglass Academy VII opened in September 2004. Teachers Preparatory School serves 6th through 12th graders with 99% minority enrollment,[128] receiving a grade of "A" on both its middle school and high school report cards for 2008.[129] FDA VII serves 9th through 12th grades with 99% minority enrollment.[18] The third high school is Brownsville Academy, which is a Diploma Plus transfer school serving 10th through 12th grades with a 100% minority enrollment.[130] It received a "Well Developed" score for 2008–2009.[131] It also received a grade of B on its 2007–2008 report card.[132] Brownsville Academy, a relatively small school with 205 students as of 2016–2017, is located at 1150 East New York Avenue, close to the Crown Heights border.[133]
Libraries
The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) has two branches in Brownsville. The Brownsville branch is located on 61 Glenmore Avenue, near Watkins Street. It opened in 1905 and used a second-floor space of another building. The current 10,550-square-foot (980 m2) branch opened in 1908.[134]
The Stone Avenue branch is located at 581 Mother Gaston Boulevard. When it opened in 1914 as the Brownsville Children's Library, it was among the world's first children's libraries, as well as one of the last Carnegie libraries in Brooklyn. The branch was renovated in 2014.[135]
Transportation
Public transportation
In 2011, 72% of residents used public transportation, up from 66% in 2000. More than 85% of residents live within 0.5 miles (0.80 km) of the subway.[34][83]
Streets
The street grid aligns with the general East New York street grid, which contains streets that generally run north–south, though ten streets from the slightly diagonal street grid of Canarsie extend into Brownsville. The easternmost of these streets, East 98th Street, serves as the ending point for many main thoroughfares in central Brooklyn, including Church Avenue, Kings Highway, and Sutter Avenues.[8]
As a result of its Jewish heritage, there are several streets named after Jewish community figures in the western portion of Brownsville. In 1913, nine years after writer
One of Brownsville's main thoroughfares, Pitkin Avenue,[140] is named after businessman John R. Pitkin of Connecticut. Pitkin developed East New York starting in 1835.[7]
Hopkinson Street, originally named after Declaration of Independence signer Francis Hopkinson,[141] was renamed in honor of State Assemblyman Thomas S. Boyland, who served the neighborhood from 1977 until his death in 1982.[8] Incidentally, many places in Brownsville, including two schools and a housing development, are named after Boyland and two of his family members (his brother William F. Boyland Sr. and his nephew William Boyland Jr.), who also went into politics and represented Brownsville in various levels of local government.[142]
Stone Avenue was renamed after Rosetta Gaston (1895–1981), founder of the Brownsville Heritage House on the avenue, as Mother Gaston Boulevard after her death.[143] Mother Gaston, as she was called, operated the Heritage House inside the Stone Avenue Library, a Jacobean Revival-style library built in 1914 by William Tubby.[144]
In popular culture
The 1934 novel Call It Sleep, by Henry Roth, is about the Schearl family, who moves from Brownsville back to the Lower East Side. The main character, young David Schearl, must endure the "terror of poverty" on the Lower East Side. Brownsville, by contrast, is described in the book as a vast improvement over the Lower East Side.[12]: 15 [145] In addition, Alfred Kazin wrote about 1920s-era Brownsville in his memoir A Walker in the City.[12]: 16 [45]
Notable people
- Masta Ace (born 1966), rapper[146]
- NFLAll Pro defensive tackle
- Albert Anastasia (1902–1957), mobster[147]
- Maurice Ashley (born 1966), chess grandmaster[148]
- Eric Adams (born 1960), 110th mayor of New York City since 2022[149]
- Ralph Bakshi (born 1938), film director[150]
- Daniel Benzali (born 1950), Golden-Globe nominated actor[151]
- Christopher Bouzy (born 1975), tech entrepreneur and founder of Bot Sentinel[152]
- Riddick Bowe (born 1967), boxer[153]
- Harry Boykoff (1922–2001), NBA basketball player[154]
- Shannon Briggs (born 1971), boxer[155]
- Egbert B. Brown (1816–1902), Union general
- Andrew Dice Clay (born 1957), comedian[156]
- Mickey Cohen (1913–1976), gangster[157]
- Aaron Copland (1900–1990), composer[34]
- Bummy Davis (1920–1945), boxer[158]
- Vince Edwards (1928–1996), actor[159]
- Melech Epstein (1889–1979), journalist and historian[160]
- Meade Esposito (1907–1993), Brooklyn Democratic leader[161]
- Fyvush Finkel (1922–2016), actor[162]
- Max Fleischer (1883–1972), animator[163]
- Brian Flores (born 1982), NFL coach[164]
- John Forté (born 1975), rapper[165]
- NBA player[166]
- Nelson George (born 1957), author[167]
- Marty Glickman (1917–2001), sportscaster[168][169]
- Don Goldstein (born 1937 or 1938), All American and Pan American champion basketball player[170]
- Sid Gordon (1917–1975), 2x All Star baseball player[171]
- Solomon Grayzel (1896–1980), historian[172]
- Arnold Greenberg (1932–2012), co-founder of Snapple[173]
- Yoel Halpern (1904-1986), rabbi[174]
- Larry Harlow (1939–2021), salsa music performer, composer, and producer[175]
- the Vario Crew and Lucchese crime family[176]
- NBA Hall of Fame player and coach[177]
- Moe (1897–1975), Curly (1903–1952), and Shemp Howard (1895–1955), who were brothers and members of The Three Stooges[16]: 110
- Thirstin Howl the 3rd, rapper[178]
- NBA player[179]
- Daniel Jacobs (born 1987), boxer[180]
- NBA player[181]
- Zab Judah (born 1977), boxer[182]
- KA (born 1972), rapper[183]
- Donald Kagan (1932–2021), historian[184]
- Danny Kaye (1911–1987), entertainer[7][34][16]: 110 [169]
- Alfred Kazin (1915–1998), writer and literary critic[185][16]: 110 [169]
- Larry King (1933–2021), television and radio host[34][16]: 110
- Alvin Klein (c. 1938 – 2009), theater critic for The New York Times[186]
- Meyer Lansky (1902–1983), noted underworld figure[16]: 30
- Steve Lawrence (born 1935), singer[169]
- Thomas A. LaVeist (born 1961), Dean of Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine [187]
- Leonard Marsh (1933–2013), co-founder of Snapple[188]
- Zero Mostel (1915–1977), actor[16]: 110 [169]
- M.O.P., hip hop duo[189]
- Eddie Mustafa Muhammad (born 1952), former boxer[190]
- Alex B. Novikoff (1913–1987), cell biologist[191]
- O.G.C., hip hop group
- Abraham Osheroff (1915–2008), political activist[192]
- Joseph Papp (1921–1991), theatrical producer/director[7]
- Bruce Pasternack (1947–2021), business author[citation needed]
- Norman Podhoretz, writer[34][193][16]: 110
- Sean Price (1972–2015), rapper[194]
- Killah Priest (born 1970), rapper[citation needed]
- Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898–1988), physicist and 1944 Nobel Prize Laureate for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance[195]
- Paul Rand (1914–1996), graphic designer[196]
- Willie Randolph, former baseball player, manager, and coach
- Abe Reles, mobster
- Representativz, hip hop duo
- Robert Rosen(1934–1998), American theoretical biologist
- RZA, rapper, member of the Wu-Tang Clan
- Meyer Schapiro, art historian, member of the faculty of Columbia University for 45 years[197][16]: 110
- NBAplayer
- Al Sharpton, minister
- Allie Sherman (1923–2015), National Football League player and head coach
- Amote Sias, educator and activist
- Phil Silvers, comic[169]
- Heltah Skeltah, hip hop group
- Jimmy Smits, actor
- Bern Nadette Stanis, actress[198]
- Smif-N-Wessun, hip hop duo
- Sparky D (1965), MC & rapper
- Joe Tacopina (born 1966), criminal defense attorney
- Sid Tanenbaum (1925–1986), professional basketball player[199]
- Mel Taylor (1933-1996), longtime drummer, percussionist and member of the instrumental and surf-rock band The Ventures
- Herb Turetzky (1945–2022), official scorer for the Brooklyn Nets for 54 years, including all of its incarnations, starting with the franchise's inaugural game in 1967.[200]
- Mike Tyson (born 1966), boxer[201][202]
- Dwayne "Pearl" Washington (1964–2016), late professional basketball player[203]
- Allen Weisselberg (born 1947), businessman and chief financial officer of The Trump Organization[204]
- NBA player.[205]
- Nicole Willis (born 1963), singer-songwriter[citation needed]
- NFL linebacker[206]
- Terry Winters (born 1949), artist[207]
- Max Zaslofsky (1925–1985), professional basketball player and coach[208]
- Howard Zinn (1922–2010), historian[34][16]: 110
Notes
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Further reading
- Landesman, A.F. (1971). Brownsville: the birth, development, and passing of a Jewish community in New York. Bloch Pub. Co. ISBN 9780819701510.
- Berube, Maurice R.; Gittell, Marilyn, eds. (1969). Confrontation at Ocean Hill-Brownsville; the New York school strikes of 1968. Praeger.
- Dubowsky, H.L. (1976). A Community Study of Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York. Hy L. Dubowsky.
- Glauber, R. (1963). All Neighborhoods Change: A Survey of Brownsville, Brooklyn, U.S.A.
- Urban renewal in Brownsville; the management of urban renewal in Brownsville area 15, 1960–1973. New York (State); State Study Commission for New York City; Housing and Development Administration Study Group. 1973.
- Jackson, K.T.; Manbeck, J.B.; Citizens Committee for New York City (2004). The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn. The neighborhoods of New York City. Citizens for NYC. ISBN 978-0-300-10310-6.
External links
- "What happened when a Brooklyn neighborhood policed itself for five days" The New York Times re Brownsville, June 2023)