The three Fugees reunited and performed on September 18, 2004 at the concert in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn featured in the film Dave Chappelle's Block Party ( 2004 ), headlining a star-studded bill that included Kanye West, Mos Def, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, The Roots, Talib Kweli, Common, Big Daddy Kane, Dead Prez, Cody ChestnuTT and John Legend.

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.

Brooklyn has 16 City Council members, the largest number of any of the five boroughs.

He also created an honor program that was used in New Jersey and in the Brooklyn Council called " Senior Division ".

The Mayor, New York City Comptroller, Speaker of the City Council and Brooklyn Borough President are ex officio members of the Board.

In a National Research Council study of baccalaureate origins of Ph. D. recipients between 1920 and 1995, Brooklyn College ranked 19th in the nation.

The neighborhood is part of New York's 12th congressional district, State Senate Districts 17 and 25, State Assembly District 50, City Council District 33, and Brooklyn Community Board 1.

They are funded by the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development, NYC Department For the Aging, State of New York, New York City Council, legislators and Brooklyn Borough President.

Inc., Council of Senior Centers and Services of New York City, Inc. and the Greater Southern Brooklyn Health Coalition.

A couple of decades after the birth of his daughter Sarah, Joris Jansen Rapelje removed to Brooklyn, where he was one of the Council of twelve men, and where he was soon joined by son-in-law Hans Hansen Bergen.

Through various community organizations including, but not limited to, the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, the Central Brooklyn Coordinating Council, and the NAACP, and through their local elected officials, the residents of Central Brooklyn approached the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York with this request.

The Town Council of Loughton, where Greenwood lived during his time as West Ham manager, erected a blue plaque to his memory on one of his former houses in the town, 22 Brooklyn Avenue: this was unveiled by Sir Trevor Brooking and the Town Mayor, Chris Pond on 28 October 2008.

Coney Island USA is funded, in part, by the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, the Fund for the City of New York ; the Independence Community Foundation, the Lemberg Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York Community Trust, the New York Council for the Humanities, the New York State Council on the Arts, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, New York City Councilman Domenic Recchia and its members.

Other commercial art work was done " for such varied employers as the Brooklyn Dodgers, Glamour magazine, the CIO, Macy's, The New York Times, the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, The Book and Magazine Guild, the American Jewish Labor Council, New Masses, the Saturday Evening Post, Ice Cream World, and Listen magazine.

He was the author of The Plymouth Silver Wedding ( New York, 1873 ); The Brooklyn Congregational Council ( 1876 ); King's Guide to Regimental Courts-Martial ( 1882 ); and edited Proceedings of the Army of the Potomac ( 1879 –' 87 ).

An anti-merger congregation in Brooklyn filed suit against the CC moderator, Helen Kenyon, in 1949 to legally stop the merger proceedings ; the major legal contention made by the church and the anti-union advocates was that the CC General Council possessed no authority to enter into a merger as a national entity.

* Sal F. Albanese, who was elected to the New York City Council in 1982, representing part of Brooklyn.

He worked as a probation and parole officer in Baltimore and was involved in the local improvement association, the Roland Terrace Democratic Club and became president of the Greater Brooklyn Park Council.

After a seven-year break from the movie industry, Cates returned to the independent film genre to co-star in Sinner, for which she won a Best Actress award at the Brooklyn Arts Council International Film & Video Festival.

* Best Actress in a Leading Role, Sinner, 41st Annual Brooklyn Arts Council International Film & Video Festival

Clarke was formerly a member of the New York City Council, representing the 40th council district in Brooklyn.

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 ).

With the assistance of a Brooklyn Union Gas Co. ( now National Grid ) engineering crew, he then broke through the massive concrete bulkhead wall, which is several feet thick.

After his initial stint with small-time gangs that included the Junior Forty Thieves and the Bowery Boys, Capone joined the Brooklyn Rippers and then the powerful Five Points Gang based in Lower Manhattan.

E trains were extended to Euclid Avenue, Brooklyn, replacing the then suspended train ( the and trains replaced it as the local north of 59th Street – Columbus Circle on nights and weekends, respectively ).

He received his degree in 1923 and then built up a successful law practice before serving as a Kings County ( Brooklyn ) Court judge.

Low-temperature x-ray diffraction was pioneered in Lipscomb's laboratory at about the same time as parallel work in Isadore Fankuchen ’ s laboratory at the then Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.

* The electrified Atlantic Branch runs from Atlantic Terminal in Downtown Brooklyn east to Jamaica, where it meets the Main Line, and then heads southeast to end at the Montauk Branch at Valley Stream.

The industry, which had relocated to Brooklyn and other places on Long Island while the law was in effect, then returned to New York.

For instance, in 1902, steel cables supporting the Brooklyn Bridge were first covered in linseed oil then wrapped in duck tape before being laid in place.

First established as a shipbuilding facility in 1801, the Brooklyn Navy Yard employed 70, 000 people at its peak during World War II and was then the largest employer in the borough.

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

* 1896 – Jesse W. Reno builds first escalator at Coney Island, and then reinstalls it on the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Richie then murders a woman at a traffic stop and steals her car, and then begins heading off into Brooklyn alongside his goons, who are horrified by what he does but continue to work alongside him.

Tiffany started out as a painter, but became interested in glassmaking from about 1875 and worked at several glasshouses in Brooklyn between then and 1878.

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.

Shortly after, the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, founded in 1784, relocated from Brooklyn, New York, to New Brunswick, and shared facilities with Queen's College ( and the Queen's College Grammar School, as all three institutions were then overseen by the Reformed Church in America ).

In 1993 Adrian Noble won a Globe Award for Best Director for his Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation, which then was successfully brought to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1994.

Following the Atlantic City run, the show played in Newark and then Brooklyn before opening on Broadway, where it ran for 202 performances.

Rick Cummins, Theatre writer / composer of many Off-Broadway shows, including 4 stage adaptations of " THE LITTLE PRINCE "; and ( with Michael Harron ), co-author of " TINY TIM ' S CHRISTMAS CAROL ," the Pennsylvania Rep Company's original stage musical which began at East Stroudsburg University, then played at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Sherman Theatre, Shawnee Playhouse, and other venues.

While visiting relatives in Brooklyn, New York City, he spent a month in the studio of John Quincy Adams Ward, then began to work on commissions, and at the age of 23 received from the town of Concord an order for his well-known statue The Minute Man, which was unveiled April 19, 1875, on the centenary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

Originally from Marcy Houses, a housing project in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, the future " Jay-Z " then known as Shawn Carter, was abandoned by his father and in 1982, he shot his brother in the shoulder for stealing his jewelry.

He befriended two other future rabbinical leaders then studying philosophy in Berlin: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, later to become rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University in New York City, and Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson who would become rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch in Brooklyn.