Perhaps the Jewish students at Brooklyn College -- constituting 85 per cent of those who attend the day session -- can serve as a paradigm of the urban, lower-middle class Jewish student.

The consequence of this is that the girls at Brooklyn College outnumber the boys and do somewhat better academically.

Brooklyn College students have an ambivalent attitude toward their school.

This is particularly acute for those who attended Midwood High School directly across the street from Brooklyn College.

For most Brooklyn College students, college is at once a perpetuation of their ethnic attachments and a breaking away from the cage of neighborhood and family.

Brooklyn College is unequivocally Jewish in tone, and efforts to detribalize the college by bringing in unimpeachably midwestern types on the faculty have been unavailing.

A freshman girl's father not too long ago called a dean at Brooklyn College and demanded the `` low-down '' on a boy who was going out with his daughter.

Under pressure from parents, the majority of Brooklyn College girls major in education since that co-ordinates best with marriage plans -- limited graduate study requirement and convenient working hours.

Although Brooklyn College does not yet have a junior-year-abroad program, a good number of students spend summers in Europe.

And acculturation into the world at large is likely to occur for the Brooklyn College student after college rather than during the four school years.

Brooklyn College is Marjorie Morningstar territory, as much as the Bronx or Central Park West.

The Brooklyn College student shows some striking departures from prevailing collegiate models.

Brooklyn College is distinctive for not having an official drinking place.

The Fort Lauderdale encampment for drinking is foreign to most Brooklyn College boys.

During the period the Board existed, Brooklyn College ( 1930 ), Queens College ( 1937 ) and a number of other four-year colleges and two-year community colleges were created.

In 1961, the New York State Legislature established the City University of New York, uniting what had become seven municipal colleges at the time: The City College of New York, Hunter College, Brooklyn College, Queens College, Staten Island Community College, Bronx Community College and Queensborough Community College.

*( 1930 ) Brooklyn College ( formed by the merger of Hunter and City Colleges ' Brooklyn campuses )

They currently study at one of the participating senior CUNY colleges ( Queens, Hunter, Staten Island, Lehman, Baruch, Brooklyn, and City ), as well as taking part in cross-campus activities and programs.

Their first actual multi-song concert billed as Jan and Dean took place in 1978 in New York City at The Palladium as part of the Murray the K Brooklyn Fox Reunion Show.

The " I coulda been a contenda " scene from On the Waterfront, according to the author of Brooklyn Boomer, Martin H. Levinson, is " one of the most famous scenes in motion picture history and the line itself has become part of America's cultural lexicon.

In the primary logo, designed by sports cartoonist Ray Gatto, each part of the skyline has special meaning — at the left is a church spire, symbolic of Brooklyn, the borough of churches ; the second building from the left is the Williamsburg Savings Bank, the tallest building in Brooklyn ; next is the Woolworth Building ; after a general skyline view of midtown comes the Empire State Building ; at the far right is the United Nations Building.

Brooklyn, a large municipality southeast of Lake Merritt, was part of what was then called the Brooklyn Township.

1915. Stengel was an outfielder on several teams in the National League beginning on September 17, 1912: the Brooklyn Dodgers from-17 ; the Pittsburgh Pirates in and ; the Philadelphia Phillies in and part of ; the New York Giants from 1921 to ; and the Boston Braves in and.

He returned to that venue in the summer of 2007 for two concerts, part of the multicultural " Celebrate Brooklyn " concert series.

Grade school students attend Brooklyn Elementary School, a part of the MSD of Martinsville.

* Brooklyn – A hamlet on Route 12 in the north-central part of the town, and north of East Otto village.

It is part of a school district that also includes nearby Cuyahoga Heights and Brooklyn Heights.

* Otto Eppers-Cartoonist and Illustrator who as part of a stunt successfully jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge at 17 years of age.

He was part of the rear guard covering the retreat from Brooklyn, and was wounded at the Battle of Brandywine while facing Hessian troops under General Knuphausen at Chadds Ford.

Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct, built by John A. Roebling, famed engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge, was constructed in 1848 as part of the canal.

Formerly it was an island, separated from the main part of Brooklyn by Coney Island Creek, which was partially tidal mudflats, but it has since been developed into a peninsula.

Most of the Motor Parkway in Queens ( west of Winchester Boulevard, whose widening destroyed an overpass ) exists as a bicycle trail from Cunningham Park to Alley Pond Park, part of the Brooklyn – Queens Greenway.

Based in part out of Midnight Rose candy store in Brooklyn, Murder Inc. hit men used a wider variety of weapons, including ice picks, to murder their victims.

He would be part of the 1925 Exposition International in Paris, and the International Exhibition of Modern Art at the Brooklyn Museum in 1926-1927.

Harold Dubinsky was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1914, the son of ethnic Jews who emigrated to America from Ukraine, then part of the Russian empire.

One of his paintings, The Holy Virgin Mary, a depiction of the Virgin Mary, was at issue in a lawsuit between the mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art when it was exhibited there in 1999 as a part of the " Sensation " exhibit.

While lending production to 1986 ’ s Reign in Blood, Rick Rubin was also helming production of the Beastie Boys debut album Licensed to Ill. Rubin felt the track " No Sleep till Brooklyn " needed a guitar solo, so he offered King several hundred dollars to lay down the part.

In 1938, the Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, and New York Yankees baseball teams did their part to promote the upcoming fair by wearing patches on their jerseys featuring the Trylon, Perisphere, and " 1939 " on their left sleeve.

It was proposed that Pyle could have his " New York " franchise but it would be located in Brooklyn, which was a part of New York City.

More than 25 carefully selected cities were visited, including New York, Brooklyn, Long Island City, Newark, Elizabeth, Stamford, Waterbury, New Haven, Bridgeport, Boston, Cambridge, Worcester, and Waltham.

The Mayor declined in two interviews with reporters yesterday to confirm or deny the reports that he had decided to run and wanted Mr. Screvane, who lives in Queens, to replace Abe Stark, the incumbent, as the candidate for President of the City Council and Mr. Beame, who lives in Brooklyn, to replace Mr. Gerosa as the candidate for Controller.

The Cobble Hill Tunnel ( popularly the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel ) of the Long Island Rail Road is an abandoned railroad tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, New York City.

In exchange for building the tunnel, the City of Brooklyn granted the B & J permission to operate its steam locomotives on Atlantic Street west of Fifth Avenue ( then Parmentier's Garden / Gowanus Lane ), all the way to Brooklyn's South Ferry ( the present location of Brooklyn's Pier 7 ).

In 1861, the New York State Legislature voted to ban railroad locomotives from within the limits of the City of Brooklyn.

Born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City to Italian immigrants, Capone became involved with gang activity at a young age after being expelled from school at age 14.

Bronx Local: While hundreds of songs about New York City, Manhattan and Brooklyn can be found in Wikipedia's List of songs about New York City and also in Marc Ferris's 5-page, 15-column list of " Songs and Compositions Inspired by New York City " in The Encyclopedia of New York City ( 1995 ), only a handful refer to The Bronx.

New York City Guide: A Comprehensive Guide to the Five Boroughs of the Metropolis: Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Richmond ( 1939 ) online edition

* B52 ( New York City bus ) in Brooklyn

:* New York City has numerous Bastille Day celebrations each July, including Bastille Day on 60th Street hosted by the French Institute Alliance Française between Fifth and Lexington Avenues on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Bastille Day on Smith Street in Brooklyn, and Bastille Day in Tribeca.

In fall 1957, for example, nearly 36, 000 attended Hunter, Brooklyn, Queens and City Colleges for free, but another 24, 000 paid tuition of up to $ 300 a year — the equivalent of $ 2, 411. 98 in 2011.

Dave Winer ( born May 2, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York City ) is an American software developer, entrepreneur and writer in New York City.

Winer was born on May 2, 1955, in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Eve Winer, Ph. D., a school psychologist, and Leon Winer, Ph. D., a former professor of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business who died October 3, 2009.

Frederik Pohl, in his autobiography The Way the Future Was, said that the origins of the Futurians started with the Science Fiction League founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1934, the New York City local chapter of which was called the " Brooklyn Science Fiction League " or BSFL, and headed by G. G. Clark.

The cafeteria of the Red Hook, Brooklyn IKEA in New York City.

The Papyrus can be viewed at the Brooklyn Children's Museum, New York City.