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Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in (or were notable for their ties to) Ocean Hill, Brooklyn.
Ocean Hill is a subsection of Bedford-Stuyvesant in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 16 and was founded in 1890. The ZIP code for the neighborhood is 11233. Ocean Hill's boundaries start from Broadway and the neighborhood of Bushwick in the north, Ralph Avenue and the neighborhoods of Bedford-Stuyvesant proper and Crown Heights to the west, East New York Avenue and the neighborhood of Brownsville to the south, and Van Sinderen Avenue and the neighborhood of East New York to the east.
Notable people with ties to Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, from Wikipedia:
- Anton Coppola (1917-2020), opera conductor and composer
- Steve Cuozzo (born 1950), writer/editor for the New York Post
- Meade Esposito (1907-1993), politician who was a Brooklyn Democratic Party leader and political boss
- Walter R. Hart (1894-1969), judge for the Second Judicial District
- Red Holzman (1920-1998), Basketball Hall of Fame NBA 2-time All-Star & coach
- Harry Maione (1908-1942), contract killer and gangster who served as a hitman for Murder, Inc. and was born in and led a gang in Ocean Hill
- Samuel D. Wright (1925-1998), politician who served in the New York State Assembly and the New York City Council