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Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in (or were notable for their ties to) Midwood, Brooklyn.
Midwood is a neighborhood in the south-central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded on the north by the Bay Ridge Branch tracks just above Avenue I and by the Brooklyn College campus of the City University of New York, and on the south by Avenue P and Kings Highway. The eastern border consists of parts of Nostrand Avenue, Flatbush Avenue, and Coney Island Avenue; parts of McDonald Avenue and Ocean Parkway mark the western boundary.
Midwood is part of Brooklyn Community District 14, and its primary ZIP Codes are 11210 and 11230. It is patrolled by the 70th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. Politically, Midwood is represented by the New York City Council's 44th, 45th, and 48th districts.
Notable people with ties to Midwood, Brooklyn, from Wikipedia:
- Woody Allen, writer and director; attended P.S. 99, graduated from Midwood High School, and once resided at both 1402 Avenue K, and 968 East 14th Street
- Darren Aronofsky, director, attended Edward R. Murrow High School (though he grew up in Manhattan Beach)
- Letty Aronson (born Ellen Letty Konigsberg), film producer and sister of Woody Allen
- Noah Baumbach, writer, director and independent filmmaker
- Didi Conn, actress, graduated Midwood High School
- Lou Ferrigno, actor, bodybuilder, grew up and lived on East 5th Street in West Midwood
- Patrick Fitzgerald, former US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, attended East Midwood Jewish Center and James Madison High School
- Annie Golden, actress, lead singer of the late 1970s band The Shirts; grew up and lived in Midwood
- Elliot Goldenthal, contemporary classical music composer; attended I.S. 240-Andres Hudde Junior High School
- Yosef Goldman, author
- Gil Hodges, baseball player and manager; parishioner of Our Lady Help of Christians Church at E. 28 St. & Avenue M; Brooklyn namesakes include the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge, Public School 193 in Midwood, a bowling alley in Mill Basin, and a portion of Bedford Avenue from Avenues L to N, near his home renamed Gil Hodges Way
- Lainie Kazan (born 1940), singer, actress (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
- Ivan Leshinsky (born 1947), American-Israeli basketball player
- Barry Manilow, pop singer and songwriter
- Arthur Miller, playwright, Death of a Salesman
- Isaac Mizrahi (born 1961), fashion designer, TV presenter and chief designer of the Isaac Mizrahi brand
- Joel Moses, Israeli-American computer scientist and MIT professor, attended Midwood High School
- David Peel (1942-2017), underground rock musician
- Bernie Sanders, politician, 2016 presidential candidate, and U.S. senator from Vermont; grew up on East 26th Street and attended James Madison High School
- Jack Sarfatti, theoretical physicist
- Chuck Schumer (born 1950), U.S. senator from New York
- Erich Segal, classics professor and novelist; graduated from Midwood High School
- Josh Silver, keyboardist and producer for the Gothic Metal band Type O Negative
- Tony Sirico, actor, "Paulie Walnuts" of HBO's The Sopranos; born in Midwood
- Peter Steele, lead singer, bassist, and composer for the Gothic Metal band Type O Negative; graduated from Murrow High School
- Chris Stein, of the pop band Blondie; attended P.S. 99 in the 1960s
- Tomys Swartwout, founding member of Midwout (Midwood); appointed a schepen (magistrate) to the Court of Midwout; a signer of the "Humble Remonstrance and Petition of the Colonies and Villages of this New Netherland Province" (December 11, 1653); one of the first campaigns for democratic rights in America
- Sy Syms (born Seymour Merinsky), philanthropist, founder and Chairman of the discount men's clothing retailer SYMS; graduated from Midwood High School
- Marisa Tomei, actress; graduated from Edward R. Murrow High School
- Michelle Trachtenberg, actress; attended P.S. 99
- Bruce Wasserstein, investment banker, businessman, and writer; born and raised in Midwood
- Adam Yauch, rapper and founding member of the Beastie Boys
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