Bensonhurst Embankment is a common walkway in Bensonhurst

Bensonhurst is a neighborhood located in the south-central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Bensonhurst runs from about 14th Avenue to 25th Avenue and from Gravesend Bay to 53rd Street, encompassing Bath Beach, New Utrecht, and part of Dyker Heights and bordered by the Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Gravesend, and Borough Park sections. For many generations of Jewish and Italian residents, Bensonhurst's geographic boundaries have been defined by the streets where the ethnic mix of Bensonhurst begins to fray. Interestingly, since about 1993, the rapid expansion of the population of Orthodox Jews in neighboring Borough Park, has encroached deeply into Bensonhurst, such that the ethnic geographic boundaries now begin from about 18th Avenue to 25th Avenue and from Gravesend Bay to 60th Street. This 1.4 square mile change represents an expansion of Borough Park and a shrinkage of Bensonhurst, as defined by traditional ethnic boundaries. It represents a historical parallel to the shrinkage of Manhattan's Little Italy as a result of the expansion and encroachment of neighboring Chinatown. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 181 KB) Summary Bensounhurst feautres a beautiful embrakement Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 181 KB) Summary Bensounhurst feautres a beautiful embrakement Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City... The Five Boroughs of New York City: 1: Manhattan 2: Brooklyn 3: Queens 4: Bronx 5: Staten Island In New York City, a borough is a unique form of government used to administer the five constituent counties that make up the city; it differs significantly from other borough forms of... Brooklyn (named for the Dutch city Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. ... Bath Beach is a community of Brooklyn, New York City, located at the southwestern edge of the mainland of the Borough on Gravesend Bay. ... New Utrecht New Utrecht is a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. ... Dyker Heights is a neighborhood in southwestern Brooklyn, New York, USA. It is sandwiched between Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst on Gravesend Bay(Lower New York Bay). ... Bath Beach is a community of Brooklyn, New York City, located at the southwestern edge of the mainland of the Borough on Gravesend Bay. ... Image:Br01 sm. ... Afternoon by the Sea (Gravesend Bay), a pastel by William Merritt Chase, ca 1888 shows traditional catboats in the bay and the Navesink Highlands across Lower New York Bay. ... Borough Park street covered with snow. ... Orthodox Judaism is the formulation of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmudic texts (The Oral Law) and as subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim. ... Borough Park street covered with snow. ... The Borough of Manhattan, highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... Food vendors line the streets of Little Italy. ... A Chinese lion helps usher in the 2006 Chinese New Year. ...

History

A view of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (Brooklyn College)

Bensonhurst derives its name from Arthur W. Benson, the former president of Brooklyn Gas, who in 1835 began buying farmland that formerly belonged to the Polhemuses family. Between 1835 and 1850 Benson divided the farmland into lots that were sold in the following decades as part of the newly created suburb of Bensonhurst^[1]. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 183 KB) Summary A spectacular view of Verezano-Narrows Bridge is available from the Embrakement in Bensonhurst Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 183 KB) Summary A spectacular view of Verezano-Narrows Bridge is available from the Embrakement in Bensonhurst Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of... Verrazano Bridge redirects here, for the bridge to Assateague Island, see Verrazano Bridge (Maryland) The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is a double-decked suspension bridge that connects the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City at the Narrows, the reach connecting the relatively protected upper bay with the... Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York. ... Arthur W. Benson (died 1889) was a president of Brooklyn Gas Light who developed Bensonhurst and Montauk, New York. ...

In the early 1900s, many Jews and Italians moved into the neighborhood, and prior to World War II the neighborhood was about equally Jewish and Italian. In the 1950s, there was an influx of immigrants from southern Italy and most of the Jewish population left the neighborhood, leaving the area predominantly Italian. In the 1990s, many Chinese and Russian immigrants began to arrive. Today, the Italian American community numbers over 50,000, or more than one-third of the population. Despite increasing diversity, Bensonhurst is still heavily Italian, as its Italian-speaking community remains over 20,000 strong, according to the census of 2000. Its main thoroughfare, 18th Avenue (also known as Christopher Columbus Boulevard) between roughly 60th Street and Bay Ridge Parkway, is lined with predominantly small, Italian family-owned businesses—many of which have remained in the same family for several generations. 86th Street is another popular thoroughfare stretching from 16th Avenue to Stillwell Avenue and lined by the arches of the elevated subway line BMT West End Line of the New York City Subway. The 86th Street elevated train was popularized in opening credits of Welcome Back Kotter, however the thoroughfare is not the icon of Italian American heritage and culture that 18th Avenue represents. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... An Italian-American is an American of Italian descent either born in America or someone who has immigrated. ... 2000 US Census logo The Twenty-Second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13. ... Route designation on BMT Triplex equipment The West End Line, now a subway line in Brooklyn, New York City, is a branch line from the Broadway (Manhattan)-Fourth Avenue (Brooklyn) subway, serving the communities of Borough Park, New Utrecht, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach and Coney Island. ... The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system operated by the New York City Transit Authority, an affiliate of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority as MTA New York City Transit. ...

Brooklyn's "Little Italy"

Apparent architectural example of Bensonhurst as a Little Italy

Bensonhurst was stereotyped as a haven for Mafia members (Gus Farace, a reputed mob associate suspected of murdering a federal drug-enforcement agent, was found shot to death in a parked car there on November 17, 1989, and two years later the neighborhood provided the setting for the mob-themed film Out for Justice starring Steven Seagal), many of whom are believed to maintain residences in Dyker Heights, a neighborhood adjacent to Bensonhurst. Despite this old stereotype, the reality is that the overwhelming majority of Bensonhurst residents (like the overwhelming majority of all Italian-Americans) have nothing to do with crime, organized or otherwise. Image File history File links BathAvenue1341. ... Image File history File links BathAvenue1341. ... The Sicilian Mafia (also referred to simply as the Mafia or Cosa Nostra), is a criminal secret society which first developed in the mid-19th century in Sicily. ... Costabile Farace (Costabile Farace Jr. ... 17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Out for Justice is a 1991 action film starring Steven Seagal. ... Steven Seagal (born April 10, 1952), is an American action movie actor, producer, writer, director, singer-songwriter, band leader, bodyguard, activist, and an active duty police officer in Louisiana. ... Dyker Heights is a neighborhood in southwestern Brooklyn, New York, USA. It is sandwiched between Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst on Gravesend Bay(Lower New York Bay). ...

Currently the neighborhood is undergoing a transformation; many of the original houses dating back over 90 years ago are being torn down and replaced by three-story brick apartment buildings and multi-family condominiums.

Visitors from throughout the New York City metropolitan area flock to the neighborhood each year in late August or early September to take part in the colorful Santa Rosalia Festival (commonly known simply as The Feast to locals), held on 18th Avenue from Bay Ridge Parkway (75th Street) to 69th Street. St. Rosalia is the patron saint of the city of Palermo and is sometimes venerated as the patron for the entire island of Sicily (a sizable portion of Bensonhurst's Italian American residents are of Sicilian heritage). The annual end-of-summer celebration attracts thousands. Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City... Santa Rosalia is the patron saint of Palermo, Sicily. ... For other uses, see Palermo (disambiguation). ... Sicily (Sicilia in Italian and Sicilian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,708 km² (9,926 sq. ... An Italian-American is an American of Italian descent either born in America or someone who has immigrated. ...

Immediately after Italy's victory at the 2006 FIFA World Cup a large portion of Bensonhurst's Italian American community, as well as several thousand participants from all over the tri-state area, participated in a large victory celebration. Several local cafés and businesses paid for a city permit to close 18th Avenue from commercial traffic. It was held on the same route as the St. Rosalia Feast, but stretched from 65th street to nearly 80th Street. The celebration began as soon as the Italian team won, until about 7:00 p.m., when the permit ran out. The FIFA World Cup Trophy, which has been awarded to the world champions since 1974. ...

Trivia

Locations

• Bensonhurst was the setting for "The Honeymooners" series, featuring actor/comedian Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden, a bus driver in Brooklyn during the 1950s.
• The television series Welcome Back Kotter was set in Bensonhurst.
• Saturday Night Fever was filmed in Bensonhurst's Philips Dance Studio.
• The famous chase scene in The French Connection rolls through Bensonhurst, on 86th Street and then, New Utrecht Avenue.
• Bensonhurst is one of the settings for the 1991 movie, Jungle Fever.
• Mirabelli's Famous Cream Soda had its roots in Bensonhurst.
• Lufthansa heist perpetrator and mobster Angelo John Sepe
• Joanna Lombardo, originally from Long Island, New Jersey (1965) was a distant relative of Chicago Outfit boss Joey Lombardo who was the girlfriend of Angelo John Sepe.
• Bensonhurst somehow inspired Oscar Benton and he created a beautiful Bensonhurst Blues

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Famous people

• Jen Lien Famous for making people feel "not notable" and generally lowering people's self esteem.
• Playwright Abe Burrows, writer of Guys and Dolls and Can-Can was a graduate of New Utrecht High School
• Vincent D'Onofrio, star of Law & Order: CI, was born in Bensonhurst.
• Harvey Fierstein, Elliott Gould, Richard Jeni, Rhea Perlman, Leah Remini, Carl Sagan, Ray Suarez grew up in Bensonhurst.
• Buddy Hackett grew up in the neighborhood and attended New Utrecht High School.
• Larry King, the famous talk show host, lived in Bensonhurst and graduated from Lafayette High School in 1951.
• Sandy Koufax, Major League Baseball pitcher and member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, attended Lafayette High School in Bensonhurst
• Adam Lazzara lead singer of Taking Back Sunday currently lives in Bensonhurst.
• Tony Mamaluke, ECW Superstar, was born in Bensonhurst.
• Robert Merrill, operatic tenor, grew up in Bensonhurst.
• Tony Sirico, actor of The Sopranos lives in Bensonhurst.
• The Howard brothers (Moe, Shemp, and Curly) of The Three Stooges fame were all from Bensonhurst.
• Philip Habib the Diplomat grew up in Bensonhurst.

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References

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External links

• NYCfoto.com - Photos of Bensonhurst
• Air visit of 'Bensonhurst' in Photographs
• A History of Bensonhurst - A History of the Neighborhood
• Brooklyn's Ethnic Neighborhoods - An ethnic picture of New York

• Bayridgetalk.com - Bay Ridge Community Message Board
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