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no·ta·ble ===* Adjective: worthy of attention or notice; remarkable* noun: a famous or important person.=== no·to·ri·ous ===* Adjective: famous or well known, typically for some bad quality or deed. Please add the profiles of prominent people who were born in the U.S. City of New York, lived in New York, or for whom New York is a significant part of their identity. ===A===* Aaliyah (1979–2001) ...
Wikipedia Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Kings County, New York. It was granted National Historic Landmark status in 2006 by the U.S. Department of the Interior.Located in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, it lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park, between Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Borough Park, Kensington, and Sunset Park. Paul Goldberger in The New York T...
This project is the portal or master project for New York City. This project will include or link to sub-projects on New York City history and genealogy, AFTER 1674. Prior to 1674, see the New Amsterdam projects . New York City Projects State of New York The Bronx Manhattan Brooklyn Queens Staten Island
Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in Kings County, New York. History Although Brooklyn has been a borough of New York City for more than a century, it had a long and illustrious history as an independent city until that time. In 1890, the last census before it was annexed, Brooklyn ranked as the fourth largest city in the United States. The first settlement in what...
Please add profiles for people who lived in Flatbush. Drawing of the Lefferts family's Flatbush homestead Flatbush is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood consists of several subsections in central Brooklyn and is generally bounded by Prospect Park to the north, East Flatbush to the east, Midwood to the south, and Kensington and Parkville (which were ...
Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery resides in Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York. This small burying ground's oldest resident is Gerret Wolfertse van Couwenhoven . Gerret was rumored to have been killed by Indians. However he met his end, Gerret died in 1645 and was buried in Flatlands. The last burials took place in the early 1950s. "By any measure, the Flatbush Reformed Dut...
Wikipedia Brooklyn Law School (BLS) is a law school founded in 1901. It is located in Brooklyn Heights, New York City, in the United States, and has approximately 1,100 students. The Dean of the law school is Nicholas W. Allard, who assumed the role in 2012, as well as the role of president in 2014. Brooklyn Law School’s faculty includes 64 full-time professors, 6 emeriti faculty, and a numb...
Please add profiles for people who lived in Carroll Gardens. Carroll Gardens is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Taking up around 40 city blocks, it is bounded by Degraw and Warren Streets (north), Hoyt and Smith Streets (east), Ninth Street or the Gowanus Expressway (south), and Interstate 278, the Gowanus and Brooklyn–Queens Expressways (w...
Crypt for the Prison Ship Martyrs=* coordinates: 40° 41' 30" N. 073° 58' 32" W. Google Map * Type: Crypt (cemeteries, graveyards)* Location: Fort Greene Park, Myrtle to Dekalb Avenues, Edwards and Cumberland Streets* County: Kings. City: New York. Borough: Brooklyn. State: NY (New York) Country: US (United States)Please add Geni profiles of these American Patriots to this project (actions menu ...
Prison Ship Martyrs Monument=* coordinates: 40° 41' 30" N. 073° 58' 32" W. Google Map * Feature Class: Park. Park: Fort Greene Park. Location: Myrtle to Dekalb Avenues, Edwards and Cumberland Streets * County: Kings. City: New York. Borough: Brooklyn. State: NY (New York) Country: US (United States)Please add profiles to this project (actions menu > add profiles) of anyone associated with the m...
Wikipedia The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest bridges of either type in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. It has a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m), and was the first steel-wire suspension bridge constructed. It was originally referred to a...
Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, New York: This project is for the fans, staff and players.
The African Burial Ground of Flatbush was located in Kings County (Brooklyn), New York. Also known as the Colored Cemetery of Flatbush, this burying ground has no physical location today. Burials are known only through obituaries, death certificates and area biographies. "In 1810, the Long Island Star published an obituary for “a negro woman named Eve, aged near 110 years,” who died in the vi...
Gravesend was founded in 1645 by Lady Deborah Moody who led a group of religious dissenters fleeing persecution, in the Dutch colony of New Netherland. The people from Gravesend were granted religious freedom, which was unusual for that period. Lady Moody was the only woman to found a colonial settlement in early North America. She was the first female landowner in the New World. Lady Deborah h...
Wikipedia =Long Island University (LIU) is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution of higher education with locations and programs spanning the New York metropolitan area, overseas, and online. The university offers more than 500 academic programs at two main campuses, LIU Post and LIU Brooklyn, as well as non-residential programs at LIU Brentwood, LIU Riverhead, and LIU Hudson at Ro...
Pratt Institute is a private, nonsectarian, non-profit institution of higher learning located in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, United States, with a satellite campus located at 14th Street in Manhattan. It originated in 1887 with programs primarily in engineering, architecture, and fine arts. Comprising five schools, the Institute is primarily known for its highly ranked ...
Wikipedia =Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.The origin of Brooklyn College occurred in 1910 with the establishment of an extension division of the City College for Teachers. The school then began offer evening classes for first-year male college students in 1917. In 1930 by the New York City B...
Wikipedia =Founded in 1946, the New York City College of Technology (known colloquially as City Tech) is the City University of New York’s college of technology. Notable Alumni
New Lots Reformed Church and Cemetery is a historic Dutch Reformed church and cemetery at 630 New Lots Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn, New York. It was built in 1823–1824 and is a small, rectangular wood-frame building sheathed in clapboard. It has a pitched gable roof and sits on a rough stone foundation. Adjacent to the church is the cemetery divided into two sections. The older section da...
This project is for those buried in Old Trinity Church Cemetery, Brooklyn, Windham County, Connecticut. Find a Grave CT GenWeb
of the Rapelje family owned several large farms in New Lots Road, west of Elton. Peter Rapelje's grandfather took a number of photographs in 1913 of the houses which lined New Lots Road before the area was cleared for re-development. Peter shared these photos and history with us and this page is an attempt to share this information by reconstructing what New Lots Road was like in the 1870's.
Wikipedia Upsala College (UC) was a private college affiliated with the Swedish-American Augustana Synod (later the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church) and located in East Orange in Essex County, New Jersey in the United States. Upsala was founded in 1893 in Brooklyn, in New York City, and moved to Kenilworth, and finally to East Orange in 1924. In the 1970s, Upsala considered moving to Wa...
Wikipedia The New York University Tandon School of Engineering (commonly referred to as Tandon) is the engineering and applied sciences school of New York University. Tandon is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United States. The school dates back to 1854 when its predecessor institutions, the University of the City of New York School of Civil Engineering and A...
Wikipedia SUNY Downstate Medical Center, located in central Brooklyn, New York, is the only academic medical center for health education, research, and patient care serving Brooklyn’s 2.5 million residents. As of Fall 2011, it had a total student body of 1,738 and approximately 8,000 faculty and staff. Downstate Medical Center comprises a College of Medicine, Colleges of Nursing and Health Re...
Wikipedia Medgar Evers College is a senior college of The City University of New York (CUNY), offering baccalaureate and associate degrees. It was officially established in 1970 through cooperation between educators and community leaders in central Brooklyn. It is named after Medgar Wiley Evers, an African American civil rights leader who was assassinated on June 12, 1963. Notable Faculty
Wikipedia =Kingsborough Community College (KBCC), part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, is the only community college in Brooklyn, New York. Located in Manhattan Beach, the 71-acre campus overlooks Sheepshead Bay, Jamaica Bay, and the Atlantic Ocean. It is also located on the site of the old Manhattan Beach Air Force Station.In its early years, it also had an annex, known as th...
1846 Ship Brooklyn. New York harbor--Cape Horn South America--Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) to Yerba Buena (San Francisco)=This project is a sub project of the Mormon Pioneers (1847-1868) Master Project This page covers the Mormon Pioneers of 1846 on the Ship Brooklyn only. This dangerous trek of nearly 24,000 miles (39,000 km) would claim 10 lives of the ship's 238 passengers, nine of which were b...
yasss, genealogy kweens... = Broad City is an American television sitcom created by and starring Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson. It was developed from their independent web series of the same name, which was produced between 2009 and 2011.The sitcom, like the web series, is based on Glazer and Jacobson's real-life friendship, and their attempt to "make it" in New York. The sitcom premiered on C...
Fort Greene Park=* coordinates: 40° 69' 19" N. 073° 97' 54" W. Google Map * Class: Park. Location: Myrtle to Dekalb Avenues, Edwards and Cumberland Streets* County: Kings. City: New York. Borough: Brooklyn. State: NY (New York) Country: US (United States)Please add Geni profiles of those associated with Fort Greene Park to this project (actions menu > add profile). Must be set to public. ==Desc...
The Brooklyn Excelsiors were an amateur baseball team that played in Brooklyn, New York. Formed in 1854, the Excelsior ballclub featured stars such as Jim Creighton, Asa Brainard, and Candy Cummings.The team is known for originating the "Brooklyn-style" baseball cap, precursor to the modern cap.