Midwood has a substantial population of Haredi Jews and Modern Orthodox Jews, many of whom live and worship in the side streets around Kings Highway

Midwood is a neighborhood located in the south central part of the Borough of Brooklyn, New York, USA, roughly halfway between Prospect Park and Coney Island. It is bounded on the north by Avenue I and the Brooklyn College campus of the City University of New York and on the south by Kings Highway. The eastern and western boundaries are Flatbush Avenue to the east, and Ocean Parkway to the west (tradition has the neighborhood ending at Coney Island Avenue, but real estate brokers say it now extends at least to Ocean Parkway, if not beyond). Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Haredi or Charedi Judaism, often also called ultra-Orthodox Judaism, is the most theologically conservative form of Orthodox Judaism. ... Modern Orthodox Judaism (or Modern Orthodox, also known as Modern Orthodoxy and sometimes abbreviated as MO) is a movement within Orthodox Judaism that attempts to synthesize traditional observance and values with the secular modern world. ... Neighbourhood is also a term in topology. ... A borough is a local government administrative subdivision used in the Canadian province of Quebec, in some states of the United States, and formerly in New Zealand. ... A map highlighting Brooklyn and the rest of New York City. ... Official language(s) English Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 455 km 530 km 13. ... Prospect Park is a 526 acre (2. ... Image of Coney Island (middle left of picture) taken by NASA. The peninsula at right is Rockaway, Queens. ... Brooklyn College of The City University of New York Brooklyn College of The City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York. ... The City University of New York (CUNY; acronym usually pronounced kyoo-nee or coo-nee), located in New York City, is the largest urban university in the United States, with more than 198,000 enrolled in degree programs, about 20,000 enrolled in non-degree programs and more than 200... Flatbush is a neighborhood of the Borough of Brooklyn, a part of New York City. ...

The name Midwood derives from the Dutch word Midwout (middle woods), the name the settlers of New Netherland gave the area of western Long Island, between the towns of “Boswijck” and "Brueckelen", because of its thick forests. Settlement began in 1652 but the area remained undeveloped for the most part until the 1920s when large tracts of developed houses and apartment buildings were built. The film industry established itself in the neighborhood about the same time when the Vitagraph company occupied a studio at Avenue M and East 14th Street. Scenes from films like "Hey Pop" and "Buzzin’ Around" starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle were filmed on streets in Midwood. New Netherland (Dutch: Nieuw-Nederland, Latin: Nova Belgica or Novum Belgium) was the territory claimed by the United Provinces (the Netherlands) on the eastern coast of North America in the 17th century. ... The four counties of Long Island. ... // Events April 6 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, and founded Cape Town. ... American Vitagraph was a United States movie studio, founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 and bought by Warner Brothers in 1925. ... Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle (1887-1933) in 1919 Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film comedian. ...

NBC set up studios in the neighborhood in 1953 from which the programs of Perry Como and Peter Pan with Mary Martin were broadcast. The same studios were used in more recent decades to broadcast the soap opera Another World, the situation comedy The Cosby Show and a few 1976 episodes of Saturday Night Live. The CBS soap As the World Turns currently tapes in the studio. Other entertainment figures who grew up in the neighborhood were novelist Eric Segal and Woody Allen, both of whom graduated from Midwood High School, and Arthur Miller who went to James Madison High School. Director Darren Aronofsky attended Edward Murrow High School, also in the area. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg also grew up in the neighborhood, attending Madison. The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Perry Como, born Pierino Ronald Como (May 18, 1912 – May 12, 2001) was an Italian American crooner during the latter half of the 20th century. ... Statue of Peter Pan in St. ... Mary Martin photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1949 Mary Martin born (December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990) in Weatherford, Texas was an American star of (mainly stage) musicals. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... Another World (AW) (sometimes called Another World: Bay City to distinguish it from its spinoffs in the 1970s and 1980s) was a Daytime Emmy-winning American soap opera which ran on the NBC television network (CTV in Canada) from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. ... Photo of the entire cast of The Cosby Show. ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute comedy-variety show from NBC which has been broadcast nearly every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975. ... CBS (formerly an acronym for Columbia Broadcasting System) is a major television network and radio broadcaster in the United States. ... As the World Turns (ATWT) is the second longest-running American television soap opera, airing each weekday on CBS. It debuted on Monday, April 2, 1956 at 1:30 in the afternoon. ... Woody Allen Woody Allen, (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935), is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, stand up comic, playwright, short story writer, and musician whose large body of work and cerebral style have made him one of the most widely respected and prolific filmmakers in... Midwood High School, at Brooklyn College, is a New York City Public High School located on Bedford Avenue. ... Arthur Miller in his later years Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and author. ...

Many Midwood residents moved to the suburbs in the 1970’s and the neighborhood and its commercial districts declined. Drawn by its quiet middle class ambiance, the area underwent a resurgence in the 1980s. New immigrants to the neighborhood consisted of people from the Soviet Union (the largest group) as well as people from China, Haiti, Israel, Pakistan, Guyana, Jamaica, Iran and India. The middle class (or middle classes) comprises a social group once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the peasantry. ...

The main shopping streets in the area are Kings Highway, Avenue J, Avenue M, and Flatbush, Nostrand, and Coney Island Avenues. A view of Kings Highway from the East 16th street intersection Kings Highway is a Business Improvement District that runs through Brooklyn of New York City. ...

References

• A Virtual Tour of New Netherland Consulted December 14, 2004
• Echoes Down the Corridor Consulted December 14, 2004
• Midwood section of Congressman Anthony D. Weiner Consulted December 14, 2004

External links

• e-midwood web site Click on one of the red lines on the map and see a panoramic view of what's across the street.
• Avenue J List of stores, community services, etc. by category.
• Avenue M List of stores, community services, etc. by category.