Borough Park, Brooklyn

Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in (or were notable for their ties to) Borough Park, Brooklyn.

It is economically diverse, and home to one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities outside Israel, with one of the largest concentrations of Jews in the United States, and Orthodox traditions rivaling many insular communities. As the average number of children in Orthodox and Haredi families is 6.72, Boro Park is experiencing a sharp growth in population.

The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community District 12, and its primary ZIP Code is 11219. It is patrolled by the 66th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. Politically, it is represented by the New York City Council's 38th, 39th, and 44th Districts.

Notable people with ties to Borough Park, Brooklyn, from Wikipedia:

• Chaim Zanvl Abramowitz (1902-1995), rebbe of Rybnitsa
• Helène Aylon (1931-2020), multi-media eco-feminist artist
• Milton Balkany (born 1946), conservative political activist and fundraiser from Brooklyn, New York, dubbed "the Brooklyn Bundler"
• Paul Bateson (born 1940) Radiological technician who, a few years after playing one in The Exorcist, at which time he lived in Borough Park, was convicted of murdering a film critic; he is also suspected in a series of unsolved serial killings of gay men in the late 1970s
• Richard J. Bernstein (born 1932), philosopher, Vera List Professor of Philosophy, and former dean of the graduate faculty at The New School
• David Bistricer (born 1949), real estate developer
• Jay Black (born 1938), singer
• Leslie Blau (1921-2021), author, historian, and survivor of the Holocaust
• Yaakov Bleich (born 1964), widely recognized as Chief Rabbi of Kyiv and all of Ukraine
• Bhikkhu Bodhi (born 1944), scholar-monk; president, Buddhist Publication Society
• Shmuel Brudny (1915-1981), Orthodox Jewish rabbi
• Gidone Busch (1968-1999), police-shooting victim
• Menachem Daum (born c. 1947), Holocaust survivor and documentary film-maker
• Sandy Deanne (born 1943), vocalist
• Alan Dershowitz (born 1938), law professor, litigator, and author
• Simcha Eichenstein, New York state assemblyman
• Simcha Felder, New York state senator
• Norman Finkelstein (born 1953), political scientist and pro-Palestine activist
• Joseph Flom (1923-2011), mergers and acquisitions lawyer
• Rachel Freier (born 1965), first Hasidic woman judge
• Linda Weiser Friedman (born 1953), professor and author
• Steven Gaines (born 1946), author, journalist, and radio show host
• David Geffen (born 1943), business magnate, producer, and philanthropist
• Eli Gerstner (born 1980), singer, songwriter, and producer
• Leon M. Goldstein (died 1999), President of Kingsborough Community College, and acting Chancellor of the City University of New York
• Dovid Grossman (1946-2018), Talmudic lecturer and Talmid Chochom who disseminated Torah worldwide
• Buddy Hackett, comedian and actor
• Shraga Feivish Hager, also known as the Kosover Rebbe; rebbe of the Kosov Hasidic dynasty, dayan ("rabbinic judge"), and orator
• Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam, the fifth and current rebbe of Bobov
• Naftali Halberstam, fourth rebbe of Bobov
• Shlomo Halberstam, third rebbe of Bobov
• Shmuel Dovid Halberstam, the Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe of Borough Park; younger son and one of the successors of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam, the previous Klausenberger Rebbe
• Maxwell S. Harris (1876-1933), lawyer and politician
• Yitzchak Meir Helfgot, cantor
• Henry Hoschander, rabbi and lecturer
• Ahmed Ibrahim, the Cupid Cabbie of New York
• Menashe Klein, rabbi of Ungvar
• Yossi Klein Halevi, author
• Elly Kleinman (born 1952), business executive and philanthropist
• Leiby Kletzky, 8-year-old Hasidic boy kidnapped, murdered, and dismembered by Levi Aron in July 201
• Aharon Kotler, rabbi and prominent leader of Haredi Judaism
• Sandy Koufax (born 1935), Hall of Fame major league baseball pitcher
• Moshe Koussevitzky, cantor and vocalist
• Bruce Kovner (born 1946), hedge fund manager and philanthropist
• Shulem Lemmer (born 1990), singer and entertainer
• Yaakov Litzman (born 1948), Israeli politician and former government minister
• Moshe Lobel, actor, filmmaker and musician
• Chaim Pinchas Lubinsky (1915-1985), mashgiach of the yeshiva in Bergen Belsen
• Zvi Hirsch Masliansky (1856-1943), Belarusian-born American rabbi, lecturer, and Zionist
• Naftuli Moster (born 1986), activist
• Chris Paciello, Cosa Nostra associate and nightclub owner
• Yaakov Perlow, rebbe of Novominsk
• Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, rebbe of Skulen
• Moshe Leib Rabinovich, rebbe of Munkacs
• Lou Reed, singer, songwriter, musician
• Sholom Rivkin (1926-2011), Israeli-born American rabbi
• Daniel Rogov (1935-2011), Israeli food and wine critic
• Yossele Rosenblatt, cantor and composer
• Yechezkel Roth, rabbi
• John Saxon (1936-2020), film actor
• Basya Schechter, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, cantor, and music teacher
• Eliezer Shlomo Schick (1940-2015), Hasidic rabbi and author
• Arnold Schuster, clothing salesman and amateur detective, involved in the capture of bank robber Willie "The Actor" Sutton, and for subsequently being the victim of a gangland murder by the Gambino crime family
• Moyshe Silk, Acting Assistant Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs
• Eliyahu Simpson, rabbi of the Nusach Ari Tzemach Tzedek Synagogue
• Aaron Teitelbaum, rebbe of Satmar
• Moshe Teitelbaum, rebbe of Satmar
• Zalman Teitelbaum, rebbe of Satmar
• Mordechai Dovid Unger, rebbe of Bobov 45
• Osher Weiss, rabbi
• Mendy Werdyger, singer and songwriter
• David Werner (born c. 1953), real estate investor
• Shraga Feivel Zimmerman, av beis din of the Federation of Synagogues in London
• Gavriel Zinner, rabbi and author of Nitei Gavriel
• Meir Zlotowitz, president of ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications
• Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft (1915-2005), Rav Hamachshir (kosher certifier) and was described as the "foremost authority on shechita" (kosher slaughter)

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borough_Park,_Brooklyn