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Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in (or were notable for their ties to) Kensington, Brooklyn.
Kensington is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, located south of Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery. It is bordered by Coney Island Avenue to the east; Fort Hamilton Parkway and Caton Avenue to the north; McDonald Avenue and 36th Street to the west; and Ditmas Avenue or Foster Avenue (if including Parkville, a micro-neighborhood largely subsumed under Kensington's imprimatur) to the south. Kensington and Parkville are bordered by the Prospect Park South and Ditmas Park subsections of Flatbush to the east; Windsor Terrace to the north; Borough Park to the west; and Midwood to the south.
Kensington is a predominantly residential area, with housing types that include brick rowhouses, detached one-family Victorians, and apartment buildings. Pre-war brick apartment buildings dominate the Ocean Parkway and Coney Island Avenue frontage, including many that operate as co-ops. The neighborhood has a diverse population with residents of many ethnicities. The main commercial streets are Coney Island Avenue, Church Avenue, Ditmas Avenue, and McDonald Avenue. Ocean Parkway bisects the neighborhood east–west. Kensington's ZIP Code is 11218 and it is served by the NYPD's 66th Precinct.
Notable people associated with Kensington according to Wikipedia:
- Yisroel Belsky (1938-2016), Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas a senior kashrut advisor at the Orthodox Union and a leading Jewish halachic decisor
- Bryce Dessner (born 1976), composer and guitarist
- Jo Freeman (born 1945), feminist scholar
- Sid Luckman (1916-1998), Hall of Fame quarterback for the Chicago Bears from 1939 to 1950; led them to four NFL championships; according to the 1940 Federal Census, Luckman lived at 318 East 8th Street in Kensington
- Bruce Morrow (born 1935), radio disc jockey known as "Cousin Brucie"
- Gedalia Schorr (1910-1979), Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and a leading Jewish scholar
- Albert Shanker (1928-1997), president of the United Federation of Teachers from 1964 to 1985 and president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) from 1974 to 1997
- Sufjan Stevens (born 1975), singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
- Frank Terpil (1939-2016), rogue CIA agent, arms trader, international felon
- Nisson Wolpin (1932-2008), editor of The Jewish Observer