Williamsburg, Brooklyn

In reading the 2011 New York Times article “At Front of Brooklyn Bus, a Clash of Religious and Women’s Rights”, author Christine Haughney brings to light a situation regarding a Brooklyn bus which is most commonly used to transport Hasidic Jews throughout the city, and while the bus is occasionally patronized by those who aren’t of the Jewish faith, traditional rules involving the separation of men and women are expected to be followed by all riders regardless of religious background. Not surprisingly

love her work. Not only did I end up enjoying most of her art but ended up loving the piece called Mannahatta. Without a doubt, it became one of my favorite sculptures right away. As stated by the Brooklyn Art Council, Zacarías was awarded a lobby commission at the William Vale Hotel in Williamsburg in 2015 (Marela). It turns out Zacarías found out she was pregnant the same week she ended up finding out she got the commission. According to Marela Zacarías’s website, Mannahatta was made in 2016 (Mannahatta)

What did you give him? What I bought last week, they told me it’s H. Who told you? I don’t remember. Brooklyn street kids are the only hardcore ones left. Manhattan has turned into a gentrified upper-middle class graveyard. Hardcore enough to find themselves with a dead rock n roller on a warm morning. You get used to anything when you’re poor, even death. The kids walked through Williamsburg wearing Johnny’s clothes and walking his dog. I loved Johnny I really did, said Genzales, his eyes heating

Early one morning in New York City’s borough of Brooklyn tragedy occurred when off duty NYPD officer Nicholas Batka lost control of his vehicle slamming into four pedestrians. The incident left one dead and three of the people in serious condition. It was found that Officer Batka was legally intoxicated when lost control of vehicle ending up on the sidewalk. The 28 year old officer has been supspend with no pay and is charged with manslaughter along, with 8 other charges. A few of the other charges

Kaminsky in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., to Polish-Jewish parents Maximillian Kaminsky and Kate "Kittie" Brookman. Brooks' grandfather, Abraham Kaminsky, was a herring dealer who immigrated in 1893. He and his wife Bertha raised their ten children on Henry Street on the Lower East Side of New York City. His father died of kidney disease at age 34. A year later, in 1930, Kittie Kaminsky and her sons Irving, Leonard, Bernard and Melvin were living at 365 S. 3rd St. in the Williamsburg neighborhood

Originally, the term “hipster” referred to “a black subculture figure of the late 1940s” (Grief 7), and transitioned to, “The White Negro” (Grief 7) who listens to Jazz in the 1950s. This term went through many phases and transitions as time progressed. Dick Hebdige states, “Subcultures represent ‘noise’ (as opposed to sound): interference in the orderly sequence which leads from real events and phenomena to their representation in the media” (Hebdige 90). In the past the hipsters were localized

Setting in The Chosen In The Chosen, the author Chaim Potok sets the story in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the 1940s where World War II and isolation have meaningful effects on the protagonists, Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter. Danny is the son of Reb Saunders, an important figure in the Hasidic Jewish community, while Reuven is the son of David Malter, a prominent Orthodox Jewish scholar. The story begins with a baseball game, kickstarting the book, as “Danny and [Reuven] would have never met if

The Influence of the Family Members on the Life of Francie Nolan The main character in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, is certainly the brilliant and resourceful Francie Nolan, however, three other characters in the novel deserve credit for guiding Francie through her troublesome childhood. Francie Nolan grows up in the slums of Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the early 1900s. Despite Francie’s lifestyle of poverty and distress, she manages to work several respectable jobs, attend college and

police corruption made by Patrolman Frank Serpico and Sergeant David Durk. Serpico discovered the widespread corruption from NYPD after he was assigned to work plainclothes. Serpico started working as a plainclothes police officer in the Bronx and Brooklyn to expose vice racketeering. He reported solid proof of across the board deliberate police corruption to his superiors but to no avail. Serpico later met David Durk, another cop, who helped him in his personal investigation of the police corruption

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith’s classic tale A Tree Grows in Brooklyn utilizes an assortment of intriguing, relatable characters to tell the emotional tale of a young girl, born into the depths of poverty, and to detail the traumatic life events that occur that shape her into her future self. Set in impoverished Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 1912, this story centers around the Nolan family: hardworking, tough mother Katie, impractical and romantic father Johnny, momma’s boy Cornelius “Neeley”,