During Louchenheim's brief regime, Columbia paid $ 410, 000 to A. H. Grebe's Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the network's flagship station.

In 1989, Keillor returned to radio with The American Radio Company of the Air ( renamed Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company in its second season ), broadcast originally from the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Also, while Keillor still sang and delivered a regular monologue on American Radio Company, Lake Wobegon was initially downplayed, as he felt it was " cruel " to talk to a Brooklyn audience about life in a small town.

Pfizer is named after German-American cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhart ( originally from Ludwigsburg, Germany ) who launched a fine chemicals business, Charles Pfizer and Company, from a building at the intersection of Harrison Avenue and Bartlett Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1849.

In 1980, David Jones ( director ), former Associate Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company chose to launch his new theatre company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music ( BAM ) with The Winter's Tale starring Brian Murray supported by Jones ' new company at BAM In 1983, the Riverside Shakespeare Company mounted a production based on the First Folio text at The Shakespeare Center in Manhattan.

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.

Brooklyn Center is home to regional favorite Surly Brewing Company.

* Karl G. Roebling ( 1882 – 1921 ), President of the John A. Roebling's Sons ' Company, builders of the Brooklyn Bridge.

The company was founded in 1910 as the Sperry Gyroscope Company by Elmer Ambrose Sperry to manufacture navigation equipment, chiefly his own inventions – the marine gyrostabilizer and the gyrocompass at 40 Flatbush Avenue Extension in Downtown Brooklyn.

One of the vegetable oil mills in Piqua burned down — a common fate for wooden buildings soaked with vegetable oil — and the owner, American Linseed Oil Company, dispatched Alfred Willard French, their Chief Engineer, from Brooklyn, New York, to organize and supervise the rebuilding of the oil mill.

When the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company electrified the steam railroads and connected Brooklyn to Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge at the beginning of the 20th century, Coney Island soon turned from a resort to a location accessible to day-trippers from New York City, especially those escaping the summer heat.

In 1907 she went to work for the Vitagraph Company in Brooklyn, New York acting as Moya, an Irish peasant girl in a one-reel version of Dion Boucicault's The Shaughraun.

* The Gretsch Company, manufacturers of drums, banjos and guitars, opens in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Company Flow is an American underground hip hop group from Brooklyn, New York City at one time associated with the independent record label Rawkus Records.

Company Flow reunited for a show on October 19, 2007 in Brooklyn, New York City as well as a show on July 16, 2011, and supported Portishead at the inaugural British ' I'll Be Your Mirror ' festival in July 23, 2011.

He has also directed productions of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, Stephen Sondheim's Company ( which had the first ever African American " Bobby "), Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus and his farewell duo of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night, which transferred to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

* Death By Audio, a Venue, Effect Pedal Company and Record Label in Brooklyn, NY

In 2002, Blockbuster acquired Movie Trading Company, a Brooklyn chain that buys, sells, and trades movies and games, to study potential business models for DVD and game trading.

Vitagraph Company, Brooklyn New York

* Youtube video of Vitagraph Film Company Brooklyn Today and a bit of the last film made there

On March 9, 1961, Anthony Anastasio, chief of the Brooklyn waterfront and its International Longshoremen's Association, marched in line with a picket group who identified themselves as “ The Federation of Italian-American Democratic Organizations .” In protest formation outside the American Broadcasting Company, ( ABC ) New York headquarters, they had come together to urge the public boycott of L & M, ( Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company ) products, and its Chesterfield King cigarettes, which sponsored " The Untouchables ".

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

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.

The breaking away from the prison house of Brooklyn is gradual.

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.

It is interesting that, although the percentage of married students is not appreciably higher at Brooklyn than elsewhere -- about 30 per cent of the women and 25 per cent of the men in the graduating class -- the anxiety of the unmarried has puffed up the estimate.

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

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

* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.

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.

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.

This technique, famously practiced by Eddie Stanky of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is where the runner does not break immediately for second when the pitcher commits to the plate.

Robert ( Bob ) M. Frankston ( born June 14, 1949 in Brooklyn New York ) is the co-creator with Dan Bricklin of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program and the co-founder of Software Arts, the company that developed it.

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

Several schools, faculties and universities in the Netherlands and Flanders are named after him, as is Erasmus Hall in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

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

The Saitta House, Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, New York, United States built in 1899 in architecture | 1899 is made of and decorated in wood.

Chadwick died at age 83 in Brooklyn, New York and is interred in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Krush attended Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, whose chess team is considered by many to be one of the top high school teams in the U. S.

* 1855 – In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published.

Tens of thousands of people lined the subsequent procession route to Robinson's interment site at Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, where he is buried next to his son Jackie and mother-in-law Zellee Isum.