Hatless, in an overcoat of rough blue wool, I was given a proud farewell by my mother and father, and I set out into the strangely still streets of Brooklyn.

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.

In the matter of money State's most unrelenting watchdog during the Eisenhower years was Representative John J. Rooney, of Brooklyn, who controlled the purse for diplomatic administrative expenses.

Prior to that he was associated with Long Island University in Brooklyn.

It was built mainly to satisfy public demand for creation of a grade-separated right of way for the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad ( later Long Island Rail Road ) on its way to the South Ferry at the foot of Atlantic Street ( later Atlantic Avenue ), where passengers could catch ferries to Manhattan.

King was a major shareholder in the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad ( later the Long Island Rail Road ) and therefore had a conflict of interest and stood to benefit by the compensation payments to the railroad from the tax assessment.

Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York on January 17, 1899.

When Al was 11, the Capone family moved to 38 Garfield Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

After he inadvertently insulted a woman while working the door at a Brooklyn night club, Capone was attacked by her brother Frank Gallucio ; and his face was slashed three times on the left side.

After a series of rival leagues were organized but failed, ( most notably the American Base Ball Association, which spawned the clubs which would ultimately become the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers ) the current American League, evolving from the minor Western League of 1893, was established in 1901.

She emigrated from England with her parents in 1871 when she was 18, where they settled in Brooklyn, New York.

The Chicago Cubs retired numbers are commemorated on pinstriped flags flying from the foul poles at Wrigley Field, with the exception of Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers player whose number 42 was retired for all clubs.

Rosendale cement was extremely popular for the foundation of buildings ( e. g., Statue of Liberty, Capitol Building, Brooklyn Bridge ) and lining water pipes.

Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, New York ,.

In 1883 the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway was opened, which had a most curious feature: though it was a cable car system, it used steam locomotives to get the cars into and out of the terminals.

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.

David Daniel Kaminsky was born to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn.

Wallach was born in Red Hook, Brooklyn at 166 Union St., the son of Polish Jewish immigrants Bertha ( née Schorr ) and Abraham Wallach.

Unemployment ended and the city was the gateway for military supplies and soldiers sent to Europe, with the Brooklyn Navy Yard providing many of the warships and the garment trade provided uniforms.

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.

He was founder of Astral Oil Works in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, New York.

The play is a series of scenes and songs, and was first staged at public swimming pool in Brooklyn.

Born in Brooklyn, Kushner was educated at Columbia University and later obtained his rabbinical ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary ( JTS ) in 1960.

Though Spider could remove Johnny's implant, this may cause both the loss of this invaluable data as well as Johnny's life ; instead, Spider directs Johnny to " Jones " that resides at Heaven, the Lo-Tek base built on the underside of the Brooklyn Bridge.

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 September 5, 1908, the Brooklyn Dodgers ' Nap Rucker blanked the Boston Doves with a flawless pitching performance, despite errors that allowed three Doves to reach base.

Located at the base of Lighthouse Hill with New Dorp and Oakwood to the east, Richmondtown has seen much new home construction since the mid-1960s, and ranks as one of the most popular destinations for families seeking to relocate to Staten Island from New York City's other boroughs, especially Brooklyn.

After his 1946 military discharge he returned to Brooklyn and saw play as a catcher in 1947, joining the team's already solid nucleus of Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Carl Furillo ; but the emergence of Roy Campanella made it evident that Hodges had little future behind the plate, and he was shifted by manager Leo Durocher to first base, where his play came to be regarded as exemplary.

In Game 5 he struck out, flied to center and lined to third base in Yankee Don Larsen's perfect game, and Brooklyn went on to lose in seven games.

CGAS Brooklyn continued to operate from NAS New York and the installation also served as a base for units of the New York Air National Guard during the Cold War.

The department's aviation base, with its fleet of Bell 412 and Augusta A119 Koala helicopters, is housed in space leased from the National Park Service that was once the United States Coast Guard Air Station Brooklyn, and is also now headquarters for the New York City Police Department Emergency Service Unit.

When classes resumed on September 21, 2001, students were moved to Brooklyn Technical High School while the Stuyvesant building served as a base of operations for rescue and recovery workers.

Some of the most important donors are Washington A. Roebling, the man who built the Brooklyn Bridge, who gave 16, 000 specimens to the collection, Frederick A. Canfield, who donated 9, 000 specimens to the collection, and Dr. Isaac Lea, who donated the base of the museum ’ s collection of 1312 gems and minerals.

His candidacy split the Democratic base vote with United States Representative Elizabeth Holtzman of Brooklyn and gave D ' Amato a plurality victory by a margin of 1 %.

Having escaped the authorities, he set up a base in a derelict graveyard in Brooklyn, where he battled Spider-Man and then escaped.

A New York Sun article on Jan. 31, 2008, noted that the " amped-up academic program at the artist-chic Berkeley Carroll School in Park Slope, Brooklyn, has been expanding the school's family base: Not just brownstoners, but many Manhattanites now attend.

The Knicks-Nets contest may develop into a full derby since the current Brooklyn Nets play in the New York borough of Brooklyn, an area also within the Knicks ' fan base.

In addition to quick acceleration and braking (), use of PCC technology meant that Bluebirds could share a significant parts and maintenance base with the Brooklyn transit company's planned PCC trolley fleet, achieving economies of scale and efficiency.

The natural harbor at the base of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the New Jersey ports at Newark and Elizabeth provided almost unlimited capacity for trading ships and protection from storms.

This image shows Red Hook Brooklyn from the base of the Brooklyn Bridge to the end of the Island.

" Santa Fe filmmakers Jon Moritsugu and Amy Davis veer ( very slightly ) from their underground experimental base with a music video released today for popular Brooklyn experimental ( see!

In a third and deciding game with Excelsior of Brooklyn, Excelsior was leading 8 – 6 and had men on base, but was forced to withdraw by a rowdy crowd of Atlantic partisans and gamblers.

* Brooklyn Atlantics – a vintage base ball club

Nichols got his start at third base for the Brooklyn Atlantics of the National Association.

With New York trailing the Brooklyn Dodgers, 4 – 1, in the ninth inning, Mueller singled Alvin Dark to third base.