Brownsville is a residential neighborhood in eastern Brooklyn in New York City. The neighborhood is bordered by Crown Heights to the northwest; Bedford–Stuyvesant and the subsection of Ocean Hill to t
The Samuel J. Tilden Houses, one of many NYCHA public housing developments located in Brownsville, circa 2005
A street market on Belmont Avenue in 1962, when the neighborhood still had a large Jewish presence.
Local retail; the Riverdale Towers sit in the background.
Henry Hill Jr. was an American mobster who was associated with the Lucchese crime family of New York City from 1955 until 1980, when he was arrested on narcotics charges and became an FBI informant. H
Brownsville, Brooklyn
…Larry Harlow (1939–2021), salsa music performer, composer, and producer Henry Hill (1943–2012), mobster associated with the Vario Crew and Lucchese crime family Red Holzman (1920–1998), NBA Hall of Fame player and coach…