Brownsville, Brooklyn (English Wikipedia)

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Eric A. Goldstein & Mark A. Izeman, The New York Environment Book (Natural Resources Defense Council/Island Press, 1990), p. 172: "Four low-income areas in Brooklyn—Bedford-Stuvyesant, Brownsville, Bushwick, and Fort Greene—have recorded almost 50 percent of the reported cases of lead poisoning in New York City from 1970 to 1988. This figure reflects the concentration of older and often deteriorated housing in what is sometimes referred to as the city's 'lead belt.'".
McLoughlin, Tim. Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth, p. 66. Akashic Books, 2008. ISBN 9781933354149. Accessed June 15, 2016. "The proprietor of Murder Inc. was a Brownsville homeboy by the name of Albert Anastasia, a.k.a. 'Lord High Executioner.'"
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Rosenthal, Nan; and Winters, Terry. Terry Winters: Printed Works, p. 6. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001. ISBN 9780300090833. Accessed July 29, 2016. "Winters was born in 1949 and grew up in Brooklyn, for the first decade of his life in Brownsville, then a large lower-middle-class Jewish community, and later in the slightly more upscale neighborhoods of Midwood and Flatbush."

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Spellen, Suzanne (January 5, 2015). "Building of the Day: 630 New Lots Avenue". Brownstoner. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
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Cromie, Robert. "Zalofsky – the Dizzy Dean of Basketball Minus Sound" Archived December 6, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, Chicago Tribune, February 14, 1949. Accessed July 29, 2016. "Zaslofsky was born in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn and at 6 got a basketball from his father."

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Long, Colleen and Tom Hays. "Crime is down, but decline lags in NY neighborhood". Archived December 31, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Associated Press at Houston Chronicle. December 30, 2013. Retrieved on December 30, 2013.

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O'Connor, Ian (May 18, 2018). "The Patriots' next coaching star? His odds were incredibly long". ESPN. Retrieved February 11, 2019. He grew up in the housing projects of Brownsville, Brooklyn, maybe the toughest neighborhood in New York, so there was nothing about Bill Belichick or the Patriot Way that could ever shake him.

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Talty, Alexandra (July 31, 2014). "Learning In Brownsville, New York: Challenges For A Community Organizer". Forbes. Retrieved October 4, 2016.

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"Brownsville Boom Brings Wealth to Speculators". New York Herald. April 6, 1904. Retrieved September 7, 2017 – via fultonhistory.com.

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"Brooklyn, NY Brownsville Tenement Collapse, Jan 1935". GenDisasters ... Genealogy in Tragedy, Disasters, Fires, Floods. January 2, 1935. Archived from the original on June 27, 2022. Retrieved October 4, 2016.

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Meredith Kolodner, At a school in Brooklyn's poorest neighborhood, literacy is up and disciplinary problems are down Archived September 18, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Hechinger Report, Teachers College, Columbia University (November 4, 2015).

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Kirsch, Jonathan. "Mickey Cohen's colorful life of crime" Archived September 14, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, August 22, 2012. Accessed June 15, 2016. "Meyer Harris Cohen was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in imperial Russia, immigrated with his family to the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn and reached Los Angeles' Jewish point of entry in Boyle Heights in 1915."

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"Herb Turetzky, the only scorekeeper Nets ever needed, has passed" Archived April 9, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, NetsDaily.com, April 5, 2022. Accessed April 7, 2022. "A native of Brownsville, Brooklyn, Turetzky joined the franchise by chance."

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Elizabeth Blair, From 'Good Times' To 'Honey Boo Boo': Who Is Poor On TV? Archived November 3, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, NPR, Morning Edition (August 5, 2014): "I too was raised in the projects in Brooklyn, N.Y., in the Brownsville neighborhood."

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