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Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in (or were notable for their ties to) Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.
Boerum Hill is a small neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bounded by Schermerhorn Street to the north and Fourth Avenue to the east. The western border is variously given as either Smith or Court Streets, and Warren or Wyckoff Streets as the southern edge.
Smith Street and Atlantic Avenue are the neighborhood's main commercial districts. The Brooklyn High School of the Arts is in the neighborhood on Dean Street and Third Avenue. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community District 2 and is served by the NYPD's 84th Precinct.
Notable people with ties to Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, from Wikipedia:
- Jonathan Ames (born 1964), author
- Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), artist
- Lilly Burns, producer
- Michael T. Cahill, Dean of Brooklyn Law School
- Paul Dano (born 1984), actor
- Shaun Donovan (born 1966), former US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Director of the Office of Management and Budget
- Donato Giancola (born 1967), artist specializing in narrative realism with science fiction and fantasy content
- Duncan Hannah (1952-2002), artist and author
- Ethan Hawke (born 1970), actor
- Hugo Guinness (born 1959), artist and screenwriter
- Zoe Kazan (born 1983), actress
- Chuck Klosterman (born 1972), writer
- Heath Ledger (1979-2008), actor
- Jonathan Lethem (born 1964), writer, lived here as a child
- Emily Mortimer (born 1971), actress
- Alessandro Nivola (born 1972), actor
- Lynn Nottage (born 1964), playwright
- Sandra Oh (born 1971), actress
- Joan Osborne (born 1962), singer-songwriter
- Lana Parrilla (born 1977), actress
- Alex Rice (born 1972), actress
- Keri Russell (born 1976), actress
- Ryan Serhant (born 1984), actor, television personality, real estate agent
- Merritt Wever (born 1980), actress
- Michelle Williams (born 1980), actress