In 2005, Albert officially became the lead play-by-play man for the New Jersey Nets franchise and started calling their games in the 2005 – 2006 basketball season on the YES Network, often teaming with Brooklyn native and NBA veteran, Mark Jackson.

Minneapolis native Craig Finn of the Brooklyn band The Hold Steady claimed that The Replacements ' music, along with distaste towards the New York City music scene, was the impetus to form The Hold Steady.

A Brooklyn native, Turkle attended Abraham Lincoln High School and graduated as a valedictorian in 1965.

Bowen was a Woodstock native who became wealthy through the dry-goods business and publishing in Brooklyn, New York.

Among these native to Reading are Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder Carl Furillo, Baltimore Colts running back Lenny Moore, and Philadelphia 76ers forward Donyell Marshall.

The baseball field is named after Billy Cox, a town native who played third base for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers, and Baltimore Orioles in the 1940s and 50's.

On June 30, 1988 the Sunset Park Bus Depot in Brooklyn was renamed the Jackie Gleason Depot in honor of the native Brooklynite.

The crew was composed of Uniondale, New York, natives Charlie Brown ( Bryan Higgins ) and Dinco D ( James Jackson ); North Amityville, New York native Cut Monitor Milo ( Sheldon Scott ); and Busta Rhymes ( Trevor Smith, Jr .), who was originally from Brooklyn, New York but later moved to Uniondale.

A Brooklyn native, D ' Onofrio has twice participated in the annual event which benefits affordable housing for the Brooklyn community.

The zoot suit-clad Fleegle was a native of Brooklyn, and his burlesque New York accent was unmistakable — especially when addressing his " goil ," the zaftig Shoiley.

A Brooklyn native, he is a prominent Modern Orthodox theologian, historian, and philosopher.

" Ageloff returned to her native Brooklyn, New York in September that same year, and Mercader joined her, assuming the identity of Canadian Frank Jacson.

The protagonists were two Southern California policemen: the dark-haired Brooklyn transplant David Michael Starsky ( Paul Michael Glaser ) who was a streetwise detective and U. S. Army veteran with intense, sometimes childlike moods, and the blond Duluth, Minnesota native

In the summer of 2004, the jam band Phish began what was billed as its last tour with a two-night stand at MCU Park, with a guest appearance by rapper Jay-Z, a native of Brooklyn, on the second evening.

Benjamin is a native of Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in the Marine Park neighborhood, where he attended PS 222.

Frank Doubleday was a native of Brooklyn, New York, the son of a hatter and his wife.

In 2004, 40 Acres moved all of its operations to New York City with headquarters in Spike Lee's native borough of Brooklyn.

Kalter is a native New Yorker, born in 1943 in Brooklyn and raised in Little Neck and Cedarhurst.

Popular and most successful hip hop artists include Katutura native Jericho, Kanibal, Snazzy, BK ( Brooklyn & Kimorah ) ( Rapper and Singer ), Rizzy, A-51, a group of native Angolans, and D-Jay, who has lived most of his life between Walvis Bay and Chicago, United States.

Montreal-style bagels can be purchased at a deli called Mile End, in the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn, which was opened and is run by a Montreal native.

His insistence on the primacy of language and his forays into metafiction mark him as a postmodernist, but he is also known for his ear for American speech and his attention to the particularities of place, especially of his native Brooklyn.

A native of Brooklyn, New York, he batted left-handed and threw right-handed.

Only a native New Yorker could believe that New York is now or ever was a literary center.

Down in Concord, New Hampshire, was a flier in the right place at the right time: Robert S. Fogg, a native New Englander, had been a World War 1, flying instructor, barnstormer, and one of the original planners of the Concord Airport.

He is a native of New Orleans and attended Allen Elementary school, Fortier High school and Soule business college.

In 1886, Jules Marcou said Vespucci renamed himself from Alberigo Vespucci ( Albericus Vespucius ) to Amerigo Vespucci after meeting the native inhabitants of the eponymous Amerrique mountain ranges of Nicaragua that connect North America and South America, an important geographic feature of New World maps and charts.

16th-century European usage of American denoted the native inhabitants of the New World.

A native New Englander, Amos Bronson Alcott was born in Wolcott, Connecticut ( only recently renamed from " Farmingbury ") on November 29, 1799.

* Egg roll – While native Chinese spring rolls have a thin crispy skin with mushrooms, bamboo, and other vegetables inside, the Westernized version ( specifically the version found in such American Northeast metro areas as Boston and New York ) uses a thick, fried skin stuffed with cabbage and usually bits of meat or seafood ( such as pork or shrimp ), but no egg.

Records from the early 19th century survive to this day describing the distinct dialect that had surfaced in the colonies since first settlement in 1788, with Peter Miller Cunningham's 1827 book Two Years in New South Wales, describing the distinctive accent and vocabulary of the native born colonists, different from that of their parents and with a strong London influence.

Born in 1855, Dr Leonard Cockayne ( generally recognised as the greatest botanist who has lived, worked, and died in New Zealand ) worked extensively on native plants throughout New Zealand and wrote many notable botanical texts.

Even as early as the 1920s he held a vision for school students of New Zealand to be involved in planting native trees and plants in their school grounds.

This vision bore fruit and schools in New Zealand have long planted native trees on Arbor Day.

Louisiana Creole ( also called French Créole ) refers to native born people of the New Orleans area who are descended from the Colonial French and / or Spanish settlers of Colonial French Louisiana, before it became part of the United States in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase.

In New Zealand scientists discovered that three genera of native bees have evolved to open flower buds of the native mistletoe Peraxilla tetrapetala.

However, when observing the native bees in the Canterbury province in the South Island, the scientists were astonished to see the bees biting the top off the buds, then pushing with their legs, occasionally popping open the buds to allow the bees to harvest the nectar and pollen, and therefore aid in the pollination of the mistletoe which is in decline in New Zealand.

With native and provincial assistance, the Army conquered New France in the Seven Years ' War and subsequently suppressed a Native American uprising in Pontiac's War.

A. schoenoprasum is the only species of Allium native to both the New and the Old Worlds.

Chives are the only species of Allium native to both the Old World and the New World.

Many regions, notably Canada, Australia, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore and the Caribbean, have developed their own native varieties of the language.

So it was that New Castle lawyer Thomas McKean denounced the Stamp Act in the strongest terms, and Kent County native John Dickinson became the " Penman of the Revolution.

* 1512 – The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regard to native Indians in the New World.

Runyon's stories also employ occasional rhyming slang, similar to the cockney variety but native to New York ( e. g.: " Miss Missouri Martin makes the following crack one night to her: ' Well, I do not see any Simple Simon on your lean and linger.