Much of this area has been and still is referred to as either Bushwick, Williamsburg, or Greenpoint with the term East Williamsburg falling out of use until the 1990s.

Bushwick was once an independent town and has undergone various territorial changes throughout its history.

In addition to DOHMH ’ s lead prevention work, the Bushwick Initiative has benefited from a series of public health programs addressing pest control, infant health, and fitness.

After a lifetime in Manhattan and thirty-five years in its SoHo district, he has moved his studio christened Wordship to Ridgewood-SoHo, as he calls it, in Far-East Artists ' Bushwick.

In the fall of 2006, GIPEC announced that The Urban Assembly New York Harbor School, a small public high school in Bushwick, Brooklyn, would relocate to Governors Island.

There are several public housing projects in East Williamsburg, including the Williamsburg Houses, Borinquen Plaza Houses, Cooper Park Houses, John Francis Hylan Houses, and the Bushwick Houses.

By the mid-seventies, half of Bushwick ’ s residents were on public assistance.

Following events surrounding the New York City blackout of 1977 which marred the public perception of the Bushwick community, the communities of Ridgewood and Glendale expressed a desire to disassociate themselves from Bushwick.

It heads southwest along a private right-of-way, eventually joining an elevated structure above Palmetto Street and Myrtle Avenue in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bedford – Stuyvesant and Bushwick.

Many of the Bushwick Initiative ’ s efforts towards economic development are focused on revitalizing Knickerbocker Avenue, the primary commercial strip in the area.

The Dutch also purchased land during the 1630s from the Lenape in present-day Gowanus, Red Hook, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and Bushwick.

Upon their arrival in New Amsterdam, Huguenots were offered land directly across from Manhattan on Long Island for a permanent settlement and chose the harbor at the end of Newtown Creek, becoming the first Europeans to live in Brooklyn, NY, then known as Boschwick, today known as Bushwick.

Under the original plans, I-78 was to continue across Manhattan as the Lower Manhattan Expressway onto the Williamsburg Bridge, and then beyond I-278 on the never-built Bushwick Expressway through Brooklyn into Queens near the John F. Kennedy Airport.

Many prominent graduates attended the school including President Millard Filmore, William Brookfield, the founder of the Bushwick GlassWorks and William E. Leffingwell ( 1855 – 1927 ), State Assemblyman and founder of the Glen Springs Sanitarium.

Gleason was born at 364 Chauncey Street in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.

73 in Brooklyn and attended ( but did not graduate from ) John Adams High School in Queens and Bushwick High School in Brooklyn.

Nilsson was born in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, New York, in 1941.

Geto Boys ( originally spelled Ghetto Boys ) is a rap group from Houston, Texas, consisting of Scarface, Willie D, and Bushwick Bill.

A high-profile incident in which Bushwick Bill lost an eye in a shooting helped boost sales of the group's 1991 album, We Can't Be Stopped.

The album cover features a picture of the injured Bushwick being carted through a hospital by Scarface and Willie D. On the album's title track, the group responded to Geffen Records ending its distribution deal with Def American.

After Willie D left the group, Scarface and Bushwick Bill continued with the Geto Boys with the addition of Big Mike who made his debut appearance with the group on 1993's album, Till Death Do Us Part.

Subsequently, Big Mike was dropped and Willie D returned for 1996's critically acclaimed The Resurrection, and the 1998 followup Da Good Da Bad & Da Ugly, of which Bushwick Bill was not a part.

In 2010, Bushwick Bill was threatened with deportation to Jamaica.

In 1992, Scarface appeared ( along with Ice Cube and Bushwick Bill ) on the Kool G Rap & DJ Polo album: Live and Let Die.

West was born Mary Jane West in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York, delivered at home by an aunt who was a midwife.

The 20-story John Francis Hylan | John F. Hylan Houses in the Bushwick, Brooklyn | Bushwick section of Brooklyn, New York City

His biographical studies, Franz von Assisi ( 1856 ; 2nd ed., 1892 ), Bushwick Bill ( 1864 ; 2nd ed., 1892 ), Caterina von Siena ( 1864 ), Neue Propheten ( Die Jungfrau von Orleans, Savonarola, Thomas Münzer ) are judicious and sympathetic.

He was a long-time resident of the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn.

On December 4, 2010, Jeff Mangum played a surprise 10-song set of Neutral Milk Hotel songs in a Bushwick, Brooklyn loft building known as The Schoolhouse to a crowd of only 100 invited guests.

In the fall of 2009, a new free tuition school called the Pope John Paul II Family Academy opened at St. Barbara's School in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

In Ireland, Shane Butler said that AA “ looks like it couldn ’ t survive as there ’ s no leadership or top-level telling local cumanns what to do, but it has worked and proved itself extremely robust .” Butler attributed this to " AA ’ s ' inverted pyramid ' style of governance has helped it to avoid many of the pitfalls that political and religious institutions have encountered since it was established here in 1946.

Schaefer in particular has questioned how robust the claimed alignments in the Caracol are.

This terminology has gained in recent popularity when describing the entire range of robust, drystone structures which exist in later prehistoric Atlantic Scotland.

The application to education has a large robust research tradition similar to that of therapy with studies having begun in the late 1930s and continuing today ( Cornelius-White, 2007 ).

Top-down design has also proven to be robust against business changes.

Research work has shown a robust correlation between small tidally induced forces and non-volcanic tremor activity.

Despite the severe damage the economy of Georgia suffered due to civil strife in the 1990s, Georgia, with the help of the IMF and World Bank, has made substantial economic gains since 2000, achieving robust GDP growth and curtailing inflation.

A 2007 IMF report on the regulatory environment and anti-money laundering has once again endorsed Gibraltar ’ s robust regulatory environment.

While tensions remain ( for example, with Muslim immigrants and in the Basque region ), modern Spain has seen the development of a robust, modern democracy as a constitutional monarchy with popular King Juan Carlos, one of the fastest-growing standards of living in Europe, entry into the European Community, and the 1992 Summer Olympics.

The temple is described in the article as adapting " the robust typology of Mayan temples, with durasteel cladding specified for the external stone walls for improved defensive strength " and said to be a ziggurat that " is built above a Force-nexus and has ample room for training facilities, accommodation and the Jedi Archive.

It has a heavy and robust body with a large dorsal fin up to tall.

The Linnaean system has proven robust and it remains the only extant working classification system at present that enjoys universal scientific acceptance.

The quark model is a part of QCD, and it has been robust enough to survive the discovery of new " flavors " of quarks.

Like the giraffe, the Okapi has long legs and a robust body.

The sweep oared boat has to be stiffer to handle these unmatched forces, so consequently requires more bracing and is usually heavier – a pair ( 2 -) is usually a more robust boat than a double scull ( 2x ) for example, and being heavier is also slower when used as a double scull.

The robust private sector has also attracted foreign investment from the likes of General Motors and Dole Fruit.

This suggests that the " natural " interaction paradigm appropriate to a fully robust ubiquitous computing has yet to emerge-although there is also recognition in the field that in many ways we are already living in an ubicomp world.

Jones, whose voice has been described as a " full-throated, robust baritone ", became the frontman for Tommy Scott and the Senators, a Welsh beat group, in 1963.

It has features to appeal to users of all levels, from informative hypertext articles about astronomy, to robust control of telescopes and CCD cameras, and logging of observations of specific objects.

These two hippocampal activity modes can be seen in primates as well as rats, with the exception that it has been difficult to see robust theta rhythmicity in the primate hippocampus.

Fast food has been losing market share to so-called fast casual restaurants, which offer more robust and expensive cuisines.

The colour is not related to its suitability for cooking: The green-stalked rhubarb is more robust and has a higher yield, but the red-coloured stalks are much more popular with consumers.

Although sensitive to global business cycles, the economy of Norway has shown robust growth since the start of the industrial era.

The test has been replicated many times, and it has proven very robust.