Gluck, Robert. "The ‘Cinematic Zionism’ of Mel Brooks", The Algemeiner, August 3, 2012. Accessed November 29, 2017. "According to Wakeman, after World War II, Brooks started working in various Borscht Belt resorts and nightclubs as a drummer and pianist. Another Williamsburg resident, Buddy Rich, taught Brooks how to play drums, and he started earning money that way at age 14."
Murray, J. J. "Until I Saw Your Smile", p. 16. Kensington Books, 2014. ISBN9780758277282. Accessed January 18, 2018. "He looked toward the bridge, shaking his head, wondering why Coming to America, supposedly set in Queens, was primarily filmed on South 5th Street in Williamsburg. It made me laugh to see Billyburg in that movie. Eddie Murphy is really trying to find his queen in Williamsburg, not Queens."
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Mitchell, Eric. "An Owner's Profile: Stuart Subotnick", The Blood-Horse, November 12, 2001. Accessed January 19, 2018. "Stuart Subotnick readily admits he knew nothing about Thoroughbreds or racing in the beginning. Horses were as foreign as hayrides to the Brooklyn, N.Y., native who grew up in a federally subsidized housing project in Williamsburg."
Blady, Ken. The Jewish Boxers Hall of Fame, p. 237. SP Books, 1988. ISBN9780933503878. Accessed July 2, 2016. "A native of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, Solly Krieger was born on March 28, 1909."
Williamsburg, Brooklyn Public Library. Retrieved November 20, 2008. "By 1917, the neighborhood had the most densely populated blocks in New York City."
About 2 Broke GirlsArchived June 8, 2016, at the Wayback Machine., CBS. Accessed June 3, 2016. "2 Broke Girls is a comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who meet waitressing at a diner in trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and form a bond over one day owning their own successful cupcake business."
Interview With Barry Manilow, Larry King Live, May 17, 2012. Accessed July 2, 2016. "MANILOW: Well, the Mayflower is an apartment building on the CD, but it was actually an apartment building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn called the Mayflower. KING: Did you live in it? MANILOW: Yes, my family lived in it."
Sacks, Ethan. "'Amazing Spider-Man 2' star Dane DeHaan based his character on Brooklyn hipsters", New York Daily News, May 1, 2014. Accessed May 12, 2016. "Amazing Spider-Man 2 star Dane DeHaan, says he based his performance as Harry Osborn ? a childhood friend of Spider-Man's alter ego who becomes the bad guy Green Goblin in the movie opening Friday ? on the hipsters and "trust fund babies" he meets in Williamsburg, where the 27-year-old lives."
Farrell, Bill. "Homecoming In B'klyn Red Carpet For Native Comic Duo", New York Daily News, June 5, 2000. Accessed January 19, 2018. "As a couple and as individuals, Stiller and Meara have plenty of reasons to be proud. Born in East New York, Stiller was constantly on the move with his family - from East New York to Williamsburg."
Maeder, Jay. "How Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn became a literary sensation", New York Daily News, August 14, 2017. Accessed January 18, 2018. "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was the tender, courage-awash story of the Nolan family ? impossible Johnny, the singing waiter who drank up his tips; patient, suffering Katie, the hard-working janitress who kept home and hearth together; and ceaselessly pensive daughter Francie, ever buried in library books and dreaming of clean skies somewhere beyond the grime of Williamsburg."
Idov, Michael. "Clash of the Bearded Ones; Hipsters, Hasids, and the Williamsburg street.", New York (magazine), April 11, 2010. Accessed May 12, 2016. "The Satmars came to the neighborhood from Hungary and Romania after World War II, led by revered rabbi Joel Teitelbaum.... For years, the invisible border between South and North Williamsburg used to be, aptly enough, Division Avenue, which separated the Hasidim from the Hispanics."
Gates, Anita. "A Musical's Star Plays, and Admires, Warhol", The New York Times, December 11, 2009. Accessed November 29, 2017. "Mr. Harrison made his Broadway debut in 2004, filling in as the Munchkin character Boq in Wicked. After Pop! ends its Yale Rep run, he hopes to work again in New York. He lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with his cats, Ella and Aggie."
Staff. "Daniel Fuchs, Novelist And Screenwriter, 84", The New York Times, August 11, 1993. Accessed May 29, 2017. "Mr. Fuchs turned to screenwriting after the commercial failure of 'The Williamsburg Trilogy', his novels in the 1930s about growing up in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. The books ? Summer in Williamsburg, Homage to Blenholt, and Low Company ? were critically praised, but sold poorly."
Shepard, Richard F. "Bringing Brooklyn Of The 1940s Back To Life For The Chosen", The New York Times, May 16, 1982. Accessed May 29, 2017. "Putting the period to a period film is a demanding business, an expensive one, too, that becomes even more challenging if the period is one that lies within the memory of living man. The Chosen, at the Beekman and Cinema 3, is a case in point, a movie that recalls a Brooklyn of the late 1940s, and does so with such fidelity that the tree-lined quiet streets of Williamsburg and the particular Jewish life on them seem to have emerged intact from a just-opened time capsule."
Canby, Vincent. "Film: Once Upon A Time In America", The New York Times, June 1, 1984. Accessed January 18, 2018. "The screenplay, by Mr. Leone and five others, cannot be easily synopsized. It begins in the 1920s in a long prologue set in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, the jungle where the five young friends, including Max and Noodles, learn their trade as petty thieves and arsonists."
LaGorce, Tammy. "Who Says You Can't Leave Home? Armor for Sleep", The New York Times, December 9, 2007. Accessed June 3, 2016. "As listeners will discover if they cue up 'Williamsburg,' a song on the new album that skewers the hipster scene in that Brooklyn neighborhood, the Secaucus stops may reflect more than a desire to be near the ones they love. "
The Physical LandscapeArchived April 18, 2016, at the Wayback Machine., Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Accessed May 12, 2016. "Built in 1903, the Williamsburg Bridge had a greater effect on the ability of immigrants to leave the Lower East Side. In the early 20th century, the bridge was seen as a passageway to a new life in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, by thousands of Jewish immigrants fleeing the overcrowded neighborhood."
The Physical LandscapeArchived April 18, 2016, at the Wayback Machine., Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Accessed May 12, 2016. "Built in 1903, the Williamsburg Bridge had a greater effect on the ability of immigrants to leave the Lower East Side. In the early 20th century, the bridge was seen as a passageway to a new life in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, by thousands of Jewish immigrants fleeing the overcrowded neighborhood."
About 2 Broke GirlsArchived June 8, 2016, at the Wayback Machine., CBS. Accessed June 3, 2016. "2 Broke Girls is a comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who meet waitressing at a diner in trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and form a bond over one day owning their own successful cupcake business."
