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Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in (or were notable for their ties to) Marine Park, Brooklyn.
Marine Park is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood lies between Flatlands and Mill Basin to the east, and Gerritsen Beach, Midwood, and Sheepshead Bay to the south and west. It is mostly squared off in area by Gerritsen Avenue, Flatbush Avenue, Avenue U and Kings Highway. The neighborhood's eponymous park is the largest public park in Brooklyn. Charles Downing Lay won a silver medal in town planning at the 1936 Olympics for the planning of Marine Park.
Marine Park is largely inhabited by people of ethnic groups such as Italian Americans, Irish Americans, Greek Americans, and Jewish Americans. The area is part of Brooklyn Community Board 18.
Notable people with ties to Marine Park, Brooklyn, from Wikipedia:
- Joel Benjamin (born 1964), chess Grandmaster
- Harvey Pitt (1945-2023), lawyer and SEC chairman
- Charlie Shrem (born 1989), entrepreneur and bitcoin advocate
- Gil Student (born 1972), book editor of the Orthodox Union's Jewish Action magazine and former managing editor of OU Press
- Joe Torre (born 1940), former Major League Baseball player and manager for the Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, New York Yankees, and Los Angeles Dodgers, respectively, current baseball executive
- Frank Torre (1931-2014), former Major League Baseball player for the Milwaukee Braves and * Philadelphia Phillies, older brother of former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre
- Terence Winter (born 1960), writer and producer of television and movies