Sometimes erroneously thought to include all or parts of such neighborhoods as Bath Beach, Dyker Heights, and Borough Park, or to be defined by the streets where the concentration of Italian residents is most dense, Bensonhurst actually has clearly defined borders, with Gravesend to the southeast, Midwood to the east, Borough Park to the north, Dyker Heights to the west, and Bath Beach to the southwest.

Bensonhurst has a large Italian-American population and is usually considered the main " Little Italy " of Brooklyn.

Nearby in southern Brooklyn in Bensonhurst, below the D-line elevated subway along on 86th Street between 18th Avenue and Stillwell Avenue, has now emerged a third Chinatown in Brooklyn.

* Batman villain Harley Quinn has been established as being from Bensonhurst, going home to visit her family for Christmas in Gotham City Sirens # 7.

* Brooklyn 11223, an American reality TV Series about a divided group of friends, has also been filmed in parts of Bensonhurst.

* Mob Wives ( of New York ) has filmed in Bensonhurst at the local Boxing Joint, Evolution Boxing, where Drita D ' Avano is trained by Anthony Pezzolanti.

Raised in Bensonhurst, New York, Colacello graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1969, and also has an MFA degree in film criticism from Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts.

The Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst, known as " the J ", was incorporated in 1927 and has helped over one million Jews in the Bensonhurst section of New York City's borough of Brooklyn.

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 & is known as the hometown of notorious soap opera Hospital mobster, Sonny Cortinthos.

* In the Ang Lee film Taking Woodstock, it is established that Eli Teischberg and his family knew Michael Lang, the organizer of the Woodstock music and art festival, from their childhood in Bensonhurst.

* Bensonhurst is mentioned in the 2002 Spike Lee film 25th Hour during Edward Norton's monologue in which he criticises contemporary New York City.

* Bensonhurst is mentioned in the 2010 film White Irish Drinkers when 2 Italians come into an Irish bar.

Spike of Bensonhurst is a 1988 comedy-drama and mafia film directed by Paul Morrissey and starring Sasha Mitchell.

In the film, the protagonist, Spike Fumo, is a young Italian man who lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn and aspires to be a boxer.

He had a starring role in the 1988 film Spike of Bensonhurst and in 1994's Class of 1999 II: The Substitute.

The film chronicles the experiences of students at three schools in the neighborhoods of Tribeca, Bensonhurst and Washington Heights.

Before tenth grade, Koufax's family moved back to the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn.

Playing into the stereotype of Bensonhurst, they are told that they don't serve their kind and to go back to Bensonhurst.

The Genoveses made good on their veiled threat in April 1986, when DeCicco was killed by a car bomb outside of Castellano's former social club in Bensonhurst, then operated by Gambino capo James Failla.

He had a sister, Carol, and the family lived in a modest apartment near the Atlantic Ocean, in Bensonhurst, a Brooklyn neighborhood.

* August 23 – Yusef Hawkins is shot in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York, sparking racial tensions between African Americans and Italian Americans.

In Italian American communities in the United States, the July feast is generally dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel while the September feast, beginning in August, brings large numbers of visitors annually to the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn in New York City.

* Lafayette High School ( New York City ), in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn

New York City's newest Chinatowns have recently sprung up in Elmhurst, Queens north of Queens Boulevard on Broadway, on Avenue U in the Homecrest section of Brooklyn, as well as in Bensonhurst, also in Brooklyn.

Peter and his parents first settled in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn in 1953 where he attended Lafayette High School ( New York City ).

On April 13, 1986, a car bomb meant for Gotti exploded outside a Bensonhurst, Brooklyn social club.

The Gravano family lived in Bensonhurst, a largely Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn.

Vincent D ' Onofrio was born in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, to Gennaro ( Gene ) D ’ Onofrio, an interior designer and theater production assistant, and Phyllis, a waitress and restaurant manager.

The Kramdens and Nortons lived in an apartment house at 328 Chauncey Street in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, NY.

** Bensonhurst, Brooklyn

Trevor was born as Claire Wemlinger in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York in 1910 ( some sources state 1909, 1911 or 1912 ), the only child of Noel and Betty Wemlinger, a Fifth Avenue merchant tailor and his wife, and grew up in Larchmont, New York.

* August 23, 1989 – Yusuf Hawkins an African-American 16-year old student is set upon and murdered by a white mob in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn in one of the city's worst-ever racial attacks.

Moses Horwitz was born on June 19, 1897, in Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood of Bensonhurst, to Solomon Horwitz and Jennie Gorovitz.

Bensonhurst is a neighborhood located in the southwestern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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 Polhemus family.

Between 1835 and 1850 Benson divided the farmland into generous lots that were sold in the following decades as part of the newly created suburb of Bensonhurst by the Sea ( current day Bath Beach section ), which was annexed into the 30th Ward of Brooklyn in the 1890s.

On April 13, 1986, while approaching his car after leaving a meeting at the Veterans & Friends Social Club on 86th St. in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Frank DeCicco was killed by a car bomb explosion.

With the migration of the Cantonese in Brooklyn now to Bensonhurst, and along with new Chinese immigration, other small clusters of Chinese people and businesses have grown in other parts of Bensonhurst as well integrating with other ethnic groups and businesses.

As an alternative, Koufax started playing basketball for the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst local community center team.

Before the opening credits begin, a dedication to Yusuf Hawkins is shown, who was killed on August 23, 1989, in Bensonhurst, New York, by neighborhood folk who believed the youth was involved with a white girl in the neighborhood, though he was actually in the neighborhood to inquire about a used car for sale in the area.

Meanwhile, Angie returns to her Bensonhurst home, and cooks dinner for her father Mike ( Frank Vincent ) and her two brothers Charlie ( David Dundara ) and Jimmy ( Michael Imperioli ).

The Mafia had been in Bensonhurst for a long time ; several " wiseguys " hung around a bar that a young Gravano and his father frequently passed.

In exchange for a promise to be designated co-leaders of the Gambino family after the assassinations, Failla and Marino provided intelligence and tipped off the plotters to the planned meeting in Bensonhurst.

This provides convenient commutes into Manhattan's Chinatown for the growing Bensonhurst Chinese population.

* 1987 Salvatore La Puma for The Boys of Bensonhurst

Hedaya was raised in Bensonhurst, and worked as a junior high school teacher for many years before deciding to pursue acting full-time.

Rabbi Akiva Ehrenfeld was the one who encouraged Rabbi Scheinberg to relocate his yeshiva to Jerusalem from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, offering attractive terms for apartments and land for the yeshiva.

The same year, the Sbarro family opened their first Salumeria ( an Italian grocery store ) at 1701 65th Street and 17th Avenue in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, which became popular for its fresh food and genuine Italian fare.