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Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in (or were notable for their ties to) East New York, Brooklyn.
East New York is a residential neighborhood in the eastern section of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, United States. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are roughly the Cemetery Belt and the Queens borough line to the north; the Queens borough line to the east; Jamaica Bay to the south, and the Bay Ridge Branch railroad tracks and Van Sinderen Avenue to the west. Linden Boulevard, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Atlantic Avenue are the primary thoroughfares through East New York.
East New York was founded as the Town of New Lots in the 1650s. It was annexed as the 26th Ward of the rapidly growing City of Brooklyn in 1886, and became part of New York City in 1898. During the latter part of the twentieth century, East New York came to be predominantly inhabited by African Americans and Latinos.
East New York is part of Brooklyn Community District 5, and its primary ZIP Codes are 11207, 11208, and 11239. It is patrolled by the 75th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) property in the area is patrolled by P.S.A. 2. Coverage by the Fire Department of New York is provided by Battalions 39 & 44. Politically it is represented by the New York City Council's 37th and 42nd Districts.
Notable people with ties to East New York, Brooklyn, from Wikipedia:
- AZ (born 1972), rapper
- Lloyd Blankfein (born 1954), investment banker who served as the CEO and chairman of Goldman Sachs from 2006 to 2018
- Steve Buscemi (born 1957), actor and filmmaker
- Lou Fine (1914-1971), comic book artist
- Sylvia Fine (1913-1991), lyricist, composer, and producer, and the wife of the comedian Danny Kaye
- Martin Goldstein (c. 1905-1941), member of a gang of hitmen, known as Murder, Inc.
- John Gotti (1940-2002), mob boss
- Henry Hill (1943-2012), mobster
- Danny Kaye (1911-1987), actor, comedian, singer and dancer
- Joe Kubert (1926-2012), Polish-born American comic book artist, art teacher and founder of The Kubert School
- Jeru the Damaja (born 1972), rapper
- Clara Lemlich (1886-1982), leader of the Uprising of 20,000, and the massive strike of shirtwaist workers in New York's garment industry in 1909
- Yaakov Litzman (born 1948), Israeli politician and government minister
- Masta Killa (born 1969), rapper
- Uncle Murda (born 1980), rapper
- Nelson Peltz (born 1942), billionaire businessman and investor
- Darren Robinson (1967-1995), founding member of The Fat Boys and pioneer of beatboxing
- Angelo Ruggiero (1940-1989), member of the Gambino crime family
- Binyumen Schaechter (born 1963), composer, arranger, conductor, musical director and performer
- Willa Schneberg (born 1952), poet
- Gary Schwartz (born 1940), art historian
- Allie Sherman (1923-2015), National Football League player and head coach
- Jerry Stiller (1927-2020), comedian and actor
- Country Yossi (born 1949), Orthodox Jewish composer, singer, radio show host, author and magazine publisher