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Bensonhurst, Brooklyn

Bensonhurst is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bordered on the northwest by 14th Avenue, on the northeast by 60th Street, on the southeast by Avenue P and 22nd Avenue (Bay Parkway) and on the southwest by 86th Street. It is adjacent to the neighborhoods of Dyker Heights to the northwest, Borough Park and Mapleton to the northeast, Bath Beach to the southwest, and Gravesend to the southeast.

Bensonhurst
Bay Parkway in Bensonhurst
Etymology: Egbert Benson
Location in New York City
Coordinates: 40°36′11″N 74°00′07″W / 40.603°N 74.002°W / 40.603; -74.002Coordinates: 40°36′11″N 74°00′07″W / 40.603°N 74.002°W / 40.603; -74.002
Country United States
State New York
CityNew York City
BoroughBrooklyn
Community DistrictBrooklyn 11[1]
Area
 • Total7.6 km2 (2.95 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[2]
 • Total104,934
 • Density14,000/km2 (36,000/sq mi)
Ethnicity
 • Asian43.9%
 • White34.8%
 • Hispanic17.2%
 • Black1.0%
 • Other2.5%
Economics
 • Median income$51,667
Time zoneUTC−5 (Eastern)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP Codes
11204, 11214
Area code718, 347, 929, and 917
Websitewww.bensonhurst.nyc

Bensonhurst contains several major ethnic enclaves. Traditionally, it is known as a Little Italy of Brooklyn due to its once large Italian-American population.[4] Bensonhurst today has the largest population of residents born in China and Hong Kong of any neighborhood in New York City and is now home to Brooklyn's second Chinatown.[5] The neighborhood accounts for 9.5% of the 330,000 Chinese-born residents of the city, based on data from 2007 to 2011.[6]

Bensonhurst is part of Brooklyn Community District 11, and its primary ZIP Codes are 11204 and 11214.[1] It is patrolled by the 62nd Precinct of the New York City Police Department.[7] Politically it is represented by the New York City Council's 43rd, 44th, and 47th Districts.[8]

Etymology and history

 
Stillwell Avenue at Bay Parkway and Bay Ridge Parkway

Bensonhurst derives its name from Egbert Benson (1789–1866), whose children and grandchildren sold his lands to James D. Lynch, a New York real estate developer. Lynch bought the old farmlands from the Benson family in the mid-1880s, and by 1888, began selling private lots in an area dubbed as Bensonhurst-by-the-Sea, now Bath Beach.[9] The first sale of lands in "The New Seaside Resort" area was advertised in the July 24, 1888, issue of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.[10]

Through the mid-20th century, Bensonhurst developed as an Italian and Jewish enclave. Despite a wave of commercial development in the 1980s, some land had remained undeveloped by then.[11] By the early 2000s, condominiums were being built in Bensonhurst, and it had turned into a diverse community of Chinese, Italian, Mexican, Middle-Eastern, and Russian residents.[12] The neighborhood, along with adjoining neighborhoods have been called "Brooklyn’s Chinatown".[13]

Demographics

Based on data from the 2010 United States Census, the combined population of Bensonhurst West and Bensonhurst East was 151,705, an increase of 8,499 (5.9%) from the 143,206 counted in 2000. Covering an area of 1,890.81 acres (765.18 ha), the neighborhood had a population density of 75.7 inhabitants per acre (48,400/sq mi; 18,700/km2).[2]

The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 48.7% (73,933) White, 0.7% (1,081) African American, 0.1% (121) Native American, 35.7% (54,099) Asian, 0% (38) Pacific Islander, 0.2% (319) from other races, and 1.2% (1,831) from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 13.4% (20,283) of the population.[3]

The entirety of Community Board 11 had 204,829 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 83.8 years.[14]: 2, 20  This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.[15]: 53 (PDF p. 84) [16] Most inhabitants are middle-aged adults and youth: 20% are between the ages of 0–17, 31% between 25 and 44, and 26% between 45 and 64. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 8% and 15% respectively.[14]: 2 

As of 2016, the median household income in Community District 12 was $53,493.[17] In 2018, an estimated 23% of Bensonhurst residents lived in poverty, compared to 21% in all of Brooklyn and 20% in all of New York City. Less than one in ten residents (8%) were unemployed, compared to 9% in the rest of both Brooklyn and New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 52% in Bensonhurst, about the same as the citywide and boroughwide rates of 52% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, as of 2018, Bensonhurst is considered to be low-income and not gentrifying relative to the rest of the city.[14]: 7 

As of the 2020 census data from NYC Dept. Of City Planning, there were 46,000 Asian residents surpassing the remaining White residents of 30,000 to 39,999 for the first time in history. The Hispanic population has also grown significantly to between 10,000 to 19,999 residents.[18][19]

Ethnic enclaves

 
18th Ave and 66th St

In the early 20th century, many Italians and Jewish migrants moved into the neighborhood, and prior to World War II, the neighborhood was about equally Jewish and Italian.[20] In the 1940s an influx of immigrants from southern Italy moved in, leaving the area predominantly Italian.

Around 1989, an influx of immigrants from China and the former USSR began to arrive, mainly from Southern China, Russia, Ukraine, and Armenia. In the 2000s, Bensonhurst rapidly grew in cultural diversity. Bensonhurst is home to many ethnic Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Albanian, Greek, Georgian, Uzbek, Arab, Egyptian, Lebanese, Pakistani, Mexican, and Guatemalan Americans.[12]

In 2000, the New York City Department of City Planning determined that just over half of the residents were born in another country.[20] By 2013, then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the city's foreign-born population had reached a record high, and that Bensonhurst had the city's second-highest number of foreign-born people with 77,700 foreign born immigrants in the neighborhood, just after Washington Heights.[21]

Little Italy

 
18th Avenue and Bay Ridge Parkway

With a large Italian-American population, Bensonhurst is usually considered the main "Little Italy" of Brooklyn.[22][23] The Italian-speaking community was over 20,000 strong in the census of 2000. The Italian-speaking community, though, is becoming "increasingly elderly and isolated, with the small, tight-knit enclave in the city slowly disappearing as they give way to demographic changes."[24] Despite changing demographics over the recent years, Bensonhurst is home to one of the largest Italian speaking communities outside of Italy and is home to the largest Sicilian and Neapolitan speaking communities outside of Sicily and Naples, respectively.

Its main thoroughfare, 18th Avenue (also known as Cristoforo Colombo Boulevard) between roughly 60th Street and Shore Parkway, is lined with predominantly small, Italian family-owned businesses—many of which have remained in the same family for several generations. 86th Street is another popular local thoroughfare, located under the elevated BMT West End Line.[11]

The annual Festa di Santa Rosalia (commonly known as "the Feast" to locals), is held on 18th Avenue from Bay Ridge Parkway (75th Street) to 66th Street in late August or early September. "The Feast" is presented by Bensonhurst resident and marketer Franco Corrado, as well as by the Santa Rosalia Society, on 18th Avenue. Born in Rome in 1955, Corrado has been an active social member of the Italian-American community for the past 20 years. St. Rosalia is the patron saint of the city of Palermo and is sometimes venerated as the patron for the entire island of Sicily. The annual end-of-summer celebration attracts thousands. Bensonhurst also hosts a Columbus Day parade.

Like Lower Manhattan's Little Italy, Bensonhurst's Little Italy and its Italian-American population is declining, with the rapid expansion of its Chinatown and Chinese population.[25]

Little Hong Kong/Little Guangdong

 
The D train of the New York City Subway system connects Brooklyn's Bensonhurst Chinatown to Manhattan's Chinatown.

Below the West End Line, served by the D train along 86th Street between 18th Avenue and the intersection with Stillwell Avenue,[26] is a small emerging Brooklyn Chinatown.[27][28] It remains intermixed with Italian, Jewish, and Russian residents,[29] but in the 2010s, most of the new businesses between 18th Avenue and 25th Avenue, have been Chinese. 86th Street is home to a growing number of Chinese restaurants, including the 86 Wong Chinese Restaurant (one of the earliest Chinese businesses established in Bensonhurst), as well as Chinese grocery stores, salons, bakeries, and other types of businesses.[30] The subway directly connects to Manhattan's Chinatown, and indirectly to the Chinatown in Sunset Park, which is served by the N, ​Q, and ​W trains at the 8th Avenue station.

With the large migration of the Cantonese and some Fuzhouese people in Brooklyn now to Bensonhurst, as well as new Chinese immigration, other clusters of Chinese businesses and residences have also started to emerge in other parts of Bensonhurst such as 18th Avenue and Bay Parkway, creating other newer small emerging Chinatowns in Bensonhurst in addition to the one on 86th Street under the D train. These are connected to the Sunset Park Chinatown by the N, ​Q, and ​W trains.[31][32][33][34][35][36]

The newly emerging Chinese enclaves in sections of Bensonhurst, and another one in Homecrest/Sheepshead Bay, are primarily Cantonese populated and are more of extensions of the Western Cantonese section of Manhattan's Chinatown or Little Hong Kong / Little Guangdong or Cantonese Town. However, there are also small numbers are Fuzhou- and Mandarin-speakers.

The Flushing-based New World Shopping Center, which owns and operates a Chinese supermarket called Jmart Supermarket inside their shopping center, opened a second branch of Jmart Supermarket in Bensonhurst in 2018. It is the neighborhood's largest Chinese Asian style supermarket.[37] The Jmart is located in a former Waldbaum's.[38]

Bensonhurst's Chinese population was 31,658 in 2015, with this population being primarily Cantonese-speaking from Mainland China's Guangdong Province and Hong Kong. The majority of Brooklyn's Cantonese population is concentrated in Bensonhurst, and is slowly replacing Manhattan's Chinatown as the largest primary Cantonese cultural center in New York City resulting in Bensonhurst increasingly becoming the main largest attraction for newly arriving Cantonese immigrants into New York City with Homecrest/Sheepshead Bay as a smaller secondary attraction.[39]

In 2011, the New York Daily News reported that Manhattan's Chinatown Chinese population dropped from 34,554 to 28,681 from 2000 to 2010, and that it is continuing to decline due to the gentrification going on in Lower Manhattan, which has spurred the increasing growth of newer Chinatowns in Brooklyn including in Queens.[40] As of the 2010s, the current Chinese population in Bensonhurst has grown so much that it is enough to create another large Chinatown surpassing Manhattan's Chinatown and nearly being as big as Sunset Park's Chinatown.[41][42] However, unlike in Sunset Park where the Chinese community is highly concentrated, the Chinese community in Bensonhurst is split into several sections, such as 18th Avenue, Bay Parkway, and 86th Street.[39][43][44]

Brooklyn's Asian population, mainly Chinese, has grown substantially in the Sunset Park area, as well as in Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights, and Borough Park. In Bensonhurst alone, from 2000 to 2010, the Asian population increased by 57%. The study showed that Asians very often live in houses that are divided into studio apartments, which means the Asian population could be higher than indicated on censuses.[40][45]

Based on data from the 2020 United States census, the Asian population in Bensonhurst grew to 46,000, surpassing the Asian populations in Sunset Park of 31,000 and in the original Manhattan's Chinatown of 27,000. Bensonhurst has the third-largest Asian population of any New York City neighborhood, behind Elmhurst with a population in excess of 55,000 and Flushing with 54,000. While the original Chinatown in Manhattan saw a decline in the Asian population, all these other neighborhoods have continued to experience Asian population increases.[46][47]

For the first time as of the 2020 census data from NYC Dept. Of City Planning, the Asian population(46,000 residents) in Bensonhurst now constitute a more than 50% majority in the neighborhood now surpassing the remaining White population (30,000 to 39,999 residents). Nearby adjacent neighborhoods of Gravesend has 26,700 Asian residents and Dyker Heights has between 20,000 to 29,999 Asian residents and Bath Beach has between 10,000 to 19,999 Asian residents. The Asian population in the Dyker Heights/Bensonhurst/Gravesend/Bath Beach area all together approximately made up around roughly 102,700 residents more or less and remain primarily Chinese speaking.[18][19][48]

There is a small significant amount of Vietnamese Chinese residents integrated into the community, particularly west of Bay Parkway going towards Dyker Heights.[49][50][51][52]

Chinese translation terms Bensonhurst as 本森社区.

New York City's largest Hong Kong community

Bensonhurst and the nearby neighborhood of Bath Beach collectively have the largest concentration of Hong Kong immigrants in New York City.

Land use and terrain

Many of Bensonhurst's houses are attached or semidetached, though fully detached houses can be found in the west near Dyker Heights. These are mostly 20th-century houses made of brick, stucco, and stone, with aluminum siding facades. There are also clusters of apartment buildings throughout the neighborhood. After rezoning in the 2000s, many short single-family homes were torn down[53] and replaced by three-story brick apartment buildings and multi-family condominiums.[20]

They are sometimes called "Fedders Houses" for their distinctive, standard air conditioner sleeves.[54] From 2002 to 2005, 1,200 new housing units in Bensonhurst were approved to accommodate the growing population, which includes many foreign-born residents. With an increase in the area's real estate values, long-time homeowners sold their houses.[20]

 
Sons of Israel Synagogue

As no official neighborhood designations are used in New York City, Bensonhurst does not have any official boundaries.[55] Still, parts of Bath Beach, Mapleton, Dyker Heights, Gravesend, and Borough Park are sometimes considered parts of Bensonhurst.[20][56] However, Bensonhurst-proper includes the area bounded by 86th Street, 14th Avenue, 60th Street, McDonald Avenue, Avenue P, Stillwell Ave. and Bay Parkway.[57]

Police and crime

The NYPD's 62nd Precinct is located at 1925 Bath Avenue.[7]

The 62nd Precinct ranked 4th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010. Historically, Bensonhurst has had lower crime than other neighborhoods in Brooklyn, though its mostly White and Asian population has made the area susceptible to racially-motivated crimes, such as the murder of Yusef Hawkins in 1989.[58]

As of 2018, with a non-fatal assault rate of 23 per 100,000 people, Bensonhurst's rate of violent crimes per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 152 per 100,000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole.[14]: 8 

The Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 87.4% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 2 murders, 20 rapes, 120 robberies, 148 felony assaults, 178 burglaries, 482 grand larcenies, and 67 grand larcenies auto in 2018.[59]

Fire safety

The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) operates two firehouses in the area.[60] Engine Co. 330/Ladder Co. 172 is located at 2312 65th Street.[61] Engine Co. 253 is located at 2429 86th Street.[62]

Health

As of 2018, preterm births and births to teenage mothers are less common in Bensonhurst than in other places citywide. In Bensonhurst, there were 84 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 12.5 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).[14]: 11  Bensonhurst has a high population of residents who are uninsured, or who receive healthcare through Medicaid.[63] In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 13%, which is higher than the citywide rate of 12%.[14]: 14 

The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in Bensonhurst is 0.007 milligrams per cubic metre (7.0×10−9 oz/cu ft), lower than the citywide and boroughwide averages.[14]: 9  Sixteen percent of Bensonhurst residents are smokers, which is higher the city average of 14% of residents being smokers.[14]: 13  In Bensonhurst, 21% of residents are obese, 12% are diabetic, and 16% have high blood pressure—compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively.[14]: 16  14% of local children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.[14]: 12 

Ninety percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is slightly higher than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 65% of residents described their health as "good," "very good," or "excellent," less than the city's average of 78%.[14]: 13  For every supermarket in Bensonhurst, there are 27 bodegas.[14]: 10 

The Bay Ridge/Dyker Heights/Bensonhurst area does not have any hospitals. However, the Coney Island Hospital, NYU Langone Hospital – Brooklyn, and Maimonides Medical Center are located in nearby neighborhoods.[63]: 19–20 

Post offices and ZIP Codes

Bensonhurst is covered by ZIP Codes 11204 north of Bay Ridge Parkway, and 11214 south of Bay Ridge Parkway.[64] The United States Postal Service's Parkville Station is located at 6618 20th Avenue.[65] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[66] Another post office, the Bath Beach Station, is located at 1865 Benson Avenue.[67]

Notable landmarks

 
Lenny's Pizza

Parks

Education

Bensonhurst generally has a lower ratio of college-educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018. While 36% of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher, 26% have less than a high school education and 38% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 40% of Brooklynites and 38% of city residents have a college education or higher.[14]: 6  The percentage of Bensonhurst students excelling in math has been increasing, with math achievement rising from 50 percent in 2000 to 71 percent in 2011, though reading achievement within the same time period stayed steady at 52%.[70]

Bensonhurst's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is lower than the rest of New York City. In Bensonhurst, 12% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, compared to the citywide average of 20% of students.[15]: 24 (PDF p. 55) [14]: 6  85% of high school students in Bensonhurst graduate on time, higher than the citywide average of 75% of students.[14]: 6 

Schools

The New York City Department of Education serves Bensonhurst.[71]

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn operates Catholic schools in the borough. Our Lady of Guadalupe School in Bensonhurst was nicknamed "OLG" in the neighborhood. In 2012 the school had 217 students, but by 2019 enrollment was 120. That year its fund balance was $559,633 and its deficit was $215,377.[72] It closed in 2019.[73]

Libraries

The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) operates two libraries in Bensonhurst. The Highlawn branch is located at 1664 West 13th Street, near the intersection with Kings Highway. The branch was renovated in 2005–2006. Unlike most other BPL branches, it contains a circular reading room with multicolored walls.[74]

The New Utrecht branch is located at 1743 86th Street, near Bay 17th Street. It was founded in 1894 as the Free Library of the Town of New Utrecht and became a BPL branch in 1901. The current building opened in 1956.[75]

Transportation

 
The 62nd Street station platforms

The neighborhood is well served by the New York City Subway. The D train, which runs on the BMT West End Line above 86th Street, provides a direct connection to Grand Street in Manhattan.[20][76] The N, ​Q, and ​W trains, which run on the BMT Sea Beach Line near 63rd Street, provide a direct connection to Canal Street.[20] This provides convenient commutes into Manhattan's Chinatown for the growing Bensonhurst Chinese population.[77]

The Sea Beach Line has a station at Eighth Avenue in Brooklyn's Sunset Park Chinatown. A transfer to the West End Line is available at New Utrecht Avenue / 62nd Street. The IND Culver Line along McDonald Avenue, carrying the F and <F>​ trains, runs through the most northeastern end of Bensonhurst between the Bay Parkway and Kings Highway stations.[26]

Subway stations in the neighborhood include:

The B1, B3, B4, B6, B8, B9, B64, B82 and B82 SBS bus routes operate through Bensonhurst.[78]

In popular culture

Bensonhurst has been portrayed frequently in film, art, and literature:

Notable people

Notable current and former residents of Bensonhurst include:

Organized crime

A number of high-profile organized crime figures hail from Bensonhurst, including Frankie Yale, Anthony Casso, Paul Castellano, Mikey DiLeonardo, Anthony Gaggi, Carlo Gambino, John Gambino, Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, Gregory Scarpa, and Carmine Sessa.

See also

Events:

Chinese enclaves:

Italian enclaves:

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  108. ^ Furse, Jane H. "N.Y.-born funnyman kills self, cops say" May 16, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, New York Daily News, March 12, 2007. Accessed August 26, 2020. "Jeni, who grew up in Bensonhurst and graduated from Hunter College, moved to the West Coast years ago, but would stop into the club when he was in New York and perform sometimes."
  109. ^ Alexander, John. "Beloved Brooklyn-based TV series Welcome Back, Kotter debuted 44 years ago" August 27, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, Brooklyn Reporter, September 9, 2019. Accessed August 26, 2020. "The show debuted on Sept. 9, 1975. Comedian Gabe Kaplan played title character Gabe Kotter, who returns to teach at his alma mater. Kaplan grew up in Bensonhurst and attended New Utrecht High School, which doubled as the fictional James Buchanan High in the TV series."
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  111. ^ Belknap, Johnny. "The Jews who created Woodstock; They weren’t rock legends but, 50 years ago, they made rock history" September 18, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, The Jewish Chronicle, August 14, 2020. Accessed August 26, 2020. "Back then record labels ruled the music world, and Lang blagged his way into Capitol Records to meet their youngest executive Artie Kornfeld, also Jewish, also from Bensonhurst."
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  114. ^ Myers, Marc. "Poms Actress Rhea Perlman on Her Wild Ride From Coney Island to Emmy Winner; The Brooklyn native was shy growing up, but her humor surfaced on school stages" September 15, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, The Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2019. Accessed September 21, 2019. "My grandparents also lived in Coney Island then. When I was 3, my parents moved to Bay Parkway in Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst section."
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  117. ^ Brown, Patricia Leigh. "At Home With: Dr. Robert M. Sapolsky; Family Man With a Foot In the Veld" August 12, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, April 19, 2001. Accessed September 21, 2019. "Dr. Sapolsky, 43, grew up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, a place he describes as 'a true tribal enclave.'"
  118. ^ Hamill, Denis. "The Man Inside Paulie Walnuts; After life as a young hood, 'Sopranos' star enjoys his role as a make-believe gangster" July 6, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, New York Daily News, January 16, 2020. Accessed August 26, 2020. "In one year, it's like I got a life transplant. Sometimes I gotta remind myself I'm Tony Sirico, from Bensonhurst."
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bensonhurst, brooklyn, bensonhurst, residential, neighborhood, southwestern, section, york, city, borough, brooklyn, neighborhood, bordered, northwest, 14th, avenue, northeast, 60th, street, southeast, avenue, 22nd, avenue, parkway, southwest, 86th, street, ad. Bensonhurst is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn The neighborhood is bordered on the northwest by 14th Avenue on the northeast by 60th Street on the southeast by Avenue P and 22nd Avenue Bay Parkway and on the southwest by 86th Street It is adjacent to the neighborhoods of Dyker Heights to the northwest Borough Park and Mapleton to the northeast Bath Beach to the southwest and Gravesend to the southeast BensonhurstNeighborhood of BrooklynBay Parkway in BensonhurstEtymology Egbert BensonLocation in New York CityCoordinates 40 36 11 N 74 00 07 W 40 603 N 74 002 W 40 603 74 002 Coordinates 40 36 11 N 74 00 07 W 40 603 N 74 002 W 40 603 74 002Country United StatesState New YorkCityNew York CityBoroughBrooklynCommunity DistrictBrooklyn 11 1 Area 2 Total7 6 km2 2 95 sq mi Population 2020 2 Total104 934 Density14 000 km2 36 000 sq mi Ethnicity 3 Asian43 9 White34 8 Hispanic17 2 Black1 0 Other2 5 Economics Median income 51 667Time zoneUTC 5 Eastern Summer DST UTC 4 EDT ZIP Codes11204 11214Area code718 347 929 and 917Websitewww wbr bensonhurst wbr nycBensonhurst contains several major ethnic enclaves Traditionally it is known as a Little Italy of Brooklyn due to its once large Italian American population 4 Bensonhurst today has the largest population of residents born in China and Hong Kong of any neighborhood in New York City and is now home to Brooklyn s second Chinatown 5 The neighborhood accounts for 9 5 of the 330 000 Chinese born residents of the city based on data from 2007 to 2011 6 Bensonhurst is part of Brooklyn Community District 11 and its primary ZIP Codes are 11204 and 11214 1 It is patrolled by the 62nd Precinct of the New York City Police Department 7 Politically it is represented by the New York City Council s 43rd 44th and 47th Districts 8 Contents 1 Etymology and history 2 Demographics 3 Ethnic enclaves 3 1 Little Italy 3 2 Little Hong Kong Little Guangdong 3 2 1 New York City s largest Hong Kong community 4 Land use and terrain 5 Police and crime 6 Fire safety 7 Health 8 Post offices and ZIP Codes 9 Notable landmarks 9 1 Parks 10 Education 10 1 Schools 10 2 Libraries 11 Transportation 12 In popular culture 13 Notable people 13 1 Organized crime 14 See also 15 References 16 External linksEtymology and history Edit Stillwell Avenue at Bay Parkway and Bay Ridge Parkway Bensonhurst derives its name from Egbert Benson 1789 1866 whose children and grandchildren sold his lands to James D Lynch a New York real estate developer Lynch bought the old farmlands from the Benson family in the mid 1880s and by 1888 began selling private lots in an area dubbed as Bensonhurst by the Sea now Bath Beach 9 The first sale of lands in The New Seaside Resort area was advertised in the July 24 1888 issue of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle 10 Through the mid 20th century Bensonhurst developed as an Italian and Jewish enclave Despite a wave of commercial development in the 1980s some land had remained undeveloped by then 11 By the early 2000s condominiums were being built in Bensonhurst and it had turned into a diverse community of Chinese Italian Mexican Middle Eastern and Russian residents 12 The neighborhood along with adjoining neighborhoods have been called Brooklyn s Chinatown 13 Demographics EditBased on data from the 2010 United States Census the combined population of Bensonhurst West and Bensonhurst East was 151 705 an increase of 8 499 5 9 from the 143 206 counted in 2000 Covering an area of 1 890 81 acres 765 18 ha the neighborhood had a population density of 75 7 inhabitants per acre 48 400 sq mi 18 700 km2 2 The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 48 7 73 933 White 0 7 1 081 African American 0 1 121 Native American 35 7 54 099 Asian 0 38 Pacific Islander 0 2 319 from other races and 1 2 1 831 from two or more races Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 13 4 20 283 of the population 3 The entirety of Community Board 11 had 204 829 inhabitants as of NYC Health s 2018 Community Health Profile with an average life expectancy of 83 8 years 14 2 20 This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81 2 for all New York City neighborhoods 15 53 PDF p 84 16 Most inhabitants are middle aged adults and youth 20 are between the ages of 0 17 31 between 25 and 44 and 26 between 45 and 64 The ratio of college aged and elderly residents was lower at 8 and 15 respectively 14 2 As of 2016 the median household income in Community District 12 was 53 493 17 In 2018 an estimated 23 of Bensonhurst residents lived in poverty compared to 21 in all of Brooklyn and 20 in all of New York City Less than one in ten residents 8 were unemployed compared to 9 in the rest of both Brooklyn and New York City Rent burden or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent is 52 in Bensonhurst about the same as the citywide and boroughwide rates of 52 and 51 respectively Based on this calculation as of 2018 update Bensonhurst is considered to be low income and not gentrifying relative to the rest of the city 14 7 As of the 2020 census data from NYC Dept Of City Planning there were 46 000 Asian residents surpassing the remaining White residents of 30 000 to 39 999 for the first time in history The Hispanic population has also grown significantly to between 10 000 to 19 999 residents 18 19 Ethnic enclaves Edit 18th Ave and 66th St In the early 20th century many Italians and Jewish migrants moved into the neighborhood and prior to World War II the neighborhood was about equally Jewish and Italian 20 In the 1940s an influx of immigrants from southern Italy moved in leaving the area predominantly Italian Around 1989 an influx of immigrants from China and the former USSR began to arrive mainly from Southern China Russia Ukraine and Armenia In the 2000s Bensonhurst rapidly grew in cultural diversity Bensonhurst is home to many ethnic Polish Ukrainian Russian Albanian Greek Georgian Uzbek Arab Egyptian Lebanese Pakistani Mexican and Guatemalan Americans 12 In 2000 the New York City Department of City Planning determined that just over half of the residents were born in another country 20 By 2013 then Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the city s foreign born population had reached a record high and that Bensonhurst had the city s second highest number of foreign born people with 77 700 foreign born immigrants in the neighborhood just after Washington Heights 21 Little Italy Edit 18th Avenue and Bay Ridge Parkway With a large Italian American population Bensonhurst is usually considered the main Little Italy of Brooklyn 22 23 The Italian speaking community was over 20 000 strong in the census of 2000 The Italian speaking community though is becoming increasingly elderly and isolated with the small tight knit enclave in the city slowly disappearing as they give way to demographic changes 24 Despite changing demographics over the recent years Bensonhurst is home to one of the largest Italian speaking communities outside of Italy and is home to the largest Sicilian and Neapolitan speaking communities outside of Sicily and Naples respectively Its main thoroughfare 18th Avenue also known as Cristoforo Colombo Boulevard between roughly 60th Street and Shore Parkway is lined with predominantly small Italian family owned businesses many of which have remained in the same family for several generations 86th Street is another popular local thoroughfare located under the elevated BMT West End Line 11 The annual Festa di Santa Rosalia commonly known as the Feast to locals is held on 18th Avenue from Bay Ridge Parkway 75th Street to 66th Street in late August or early September The Feast is presented by Bensonhurst resident and marketer Franco Corrado as well as by the Santa Rosalia Society on 18th Avenue Born in Rome in 1955 Corrado has been an active social member of the Italian American community for the past 20 years St Rosalia is the patron saint of the city of Palermo and is sometimes venerated as the patron for the entire island of Sicily The annual end of summer celebration attracts thousands Bensonhurst also hosts a Columbus Day parade Like Lower Manhattan s Little Italy Bensonhurst s Little Italy and its Italian American population is declining with the rapid expansion of its Chinatown and Chinese population 25 Little Hong Kong Little Guangdong Edit Main article Chinatowns in Brooklyn The D train of the New York City Subway system connects Brooklyn s Bensonhurst Chinatown to Manhattan s Chinatown Below the West End Line served by the D train along 86th Street between 18th Avenue and the intersection with Stillwell Avenue 26 is a small emerging Brooklyn Chinatown 27 28 It remains intermixed with Italian Jewish and Russian residents 29 but in the 2010s most of the new businesses between 18th Avenue and 25th Avenue have been Chinese 86th Street is home to a growing number of Chinese restaurants including the 86 Wong Chinese Restaurant one of the earliest Chinese businesses established in Bensonhurst as well as Chinese grocery stores salons bakeries and other types of businesses 30 The subway directly connects to Manhattan s Chinatown and indirectly to the Chinatown in Sunset Park which is served by the N Q and W trains at the 8th Avenue station With the large migration of the Cantonese and some Fuzhouese people in Brooklyn now to Bensonhurst as well as new Chinese immigration other clusters of Chinese businesses and residences have also started to emerge in other parts of Bensonhurst such as 18th Avenue and Bay Parkway creating other newer small emerging Chinatowns in Bensonhurst in addition to the one on 86th Street under the D train These are connected to the Sunset Park Chinatown by the N Q and W trains 31 32 33 34 35 36 The newly emerging Chinese enclaves in sections of Bensonhurst and another one in Homecrest Sheepshead Bay are primarily Cantonese populated and are more of extensions of the Western Cantonese section of Manhattan s Chinatown or Little Hong Kong Little Guangdong or Cantonese Town However there are also small numbers are Fuzhou and Mandarin speakers The Flushing based New World Shopping Center which owns and operates a Chinese supermarket called Jmart Supermarket inside their shopping center opened a second branch of Jmart Supermarket in Bensonhurst in 2018 It is the neighborhood s largest Chinese Asian style supermarket 37 The Jmart is located in a former Waldbaum s 38 Bensonhurst s Chinese population was 31 658 in 2015 with this population being primarily Cantonese speaking from Mainland China s Guangdong Province and Hong Kong The majority of Brooklyn s Cantonese population is concentrated in Bensonhurst and is slowly replacing Manhattan s Chinatown as the largest primary Cantonese cultural center in New York City resulting in Bensonhurst increasingly becoming the main largest attraction for newly arriving Cantonese immigrants into New York City with Homecrest Sheepshead Bay as a smaller secondary attraction 39 In 2011 the New York Daily News reported that Manhattan s Chinatown Chinese population dropped from 34 554 to 28 681 from 2000 to 2010 and that it is continuing to decline due to the gentrification going on in Lower Manhattan which has spurred the increasing growth of newer Chinatowns in Brooklyn including in Queens 40 As of the 2010s the current Chinese population in Bensonhurst has grown so much that it is enough to create another large Chinatown surpassing Manhattan s Chinatown and nearly being as big as Sunset Park s Chinatown 41 42 However unlike in Sunset Park where the Chinese community is highly concentrated the Chinese community in Bensonhurst is split into several sections such as 18th Avenue Bay Parkway and 86th Street 39 43 44 Brooklyn s Asian population mainly Chinese has grown substantially in the Sunset Park area as well as in Bensonhurst Dyker Heights and Borough Park In Bensonhurst alone from 2000 to 2010 the Asian population increased by 57 The study showed that Asians very often live in houses that are divided into studio apartments which means the Asian population could be higher than indicated on censuses 40 45 Based on data from the 2020 United States census the Asian population in Bensonhurst grew to 46 000 surpassing the Asian populations in Sunset Park of 31 000 and in the original Manhattan s Chinatown of 27 000 Bensonhurst has the third largest Asian population of any New York City neighborhood behind Elmhurst with a population in excess of 55 000 and Flushing with 54 000 While the original Chinatown in Manhattan saw a decline in the Asian population all these other neighborhoods have continued to experience Asian population increases 46 47 For the first time as of the 2020 census data from NYC Dept Of City Planning the Asian population 46 000 residents in Bensonhurst now constitute a more than 50 majority in the neighborhood now surpassing the remaining White population 30 000 to 39 999 residents Nearby adjacent neighborhoods of Gravesend has 26 700 Asian residents and Dyker Heights has between 20 000 to 29 999 Asian residents and Bath Beach has between 10 000 to 19 999 Asian residents The Asian population in the Dyker Heights Bensonhurst Gravesend Bath Beach area all together approximately made up around roughly 102 700 residents more or less and remain primarily Chinese speaking 18 19 48 There is a small significant amount of Vietnamese Chinese residents integrated into the community particularly west of Bay Parkway going towards Dyker Heights 49 50 51 52 Chinese translation terms Bensonhurst as 本森社区 New York City s largest Hong Kong community Edit Bensonhurst and the nearby neighborhood of Bath Beach collectively have the largest concentration of Hong Kong immigrants in New York City Land use and terrain EditMany of Bensonhurst s houses are attached or semidetached though fully detached houses can be found in the west near Dyker Heights These are mostly 20th century houses made of brick stucco and stone with aluminum siding facades There are also clusters of apartment buildings throughout the neighborhood After rezoning in the 2000s many short single family homes were torn down 53 and replaced by three story brick apartment buildings and multi family condominiums 20 They are sometimes called Fedders Houses for their distinctive standard air conditioner sleeves 54 From 2002 to 2005 1 200 new housing units in Bensonhurst were approved to accommodate the growing population which includes many foreign born residents With an increase in the area s real estate values long time homeowners sold their houses 20 Sons of Israel Synagogue As no official neighborhood designations are used in New York City Bensonhurst does not have any official boundaries 55 Still parts of Bath Beach Mapleton Dyker Heights Gravesend and Borough Park are sometimes considered parts of Bensonhurst 20 56 However Bensonhurst proper includes the area bounded by 86th Street 14th Avenue 60th Street McDonald Avenue Avenue P Stillwell Ave and Bay Parkway 57 Police and crime EditThe NYPD s 62nd Precinct is located at 1925 Bath Avenue 7 The 62nd Precinct ranked 4th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per capita crime in 2010 Historically Bensonhurst has had lower crime than other neighborhoods in Brooklyn though its mostly White and Asian population has made the area susceptible to racially motivated crimes such as the murder of Yusef Hawkins in 1989 58 As of 2018 update with a non fatal assault rate of 23 per 100 000 people Bensonhurst s rate of violent crimes per capita is less than that of the city as a whole The incarceration rate of 152 per 100 000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole 14 8 The Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s with crimes across all categories having decreased by 87 4 between 1990 and 2018 The precinct reported 2 murders 20 rapes 120 robberies 148 felony assaults 178 burglaries 482 grand larcenies and 67 grand larcenies auto in 2018 59 Fire safety EditThe New York City Fire Department FDNY operates two firehouses in the area 60 Engine Co 330 Ladder Co 172 is located at 2312 65th Street 61 Engine Co 253 is located at 2429 86th Street 62 Health EditAs of 2018 update preterm births and births to teenage mothers are less common in Bensonhurst than in other places citywide In Bensonhurst there were 84 preterm births per 1 000 live births compared to 87 per 1 000 citywide and 12 5 births to teenage mothers per 1 000 live births compared to 19 3 per 1 000 citywide 14 11 Bensonhurst has a high population of residents who are uninsured or who receive healthcare through Medicaid 63 In 2018 this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 13 which is higher than the citywide rate of 12 14 14 The concentration of fine particulate matter the deadliest type of air pollutant in Bensonhurst is 0 007 milligrams per cubic metre 7 0 10 9 oz cu ft lower than the citywide and boroughwide averages 14 9 Sixteen percent of Bensonhurst residents are smokers which is higher the city average of 14 of residents being smokers 14 13 In Bensonhurst 21 of residents are obese 12 are diabetic and 16 have high blood pressure compared to the citywide averages of 24 11 and 28 respectively 14 16 14 of local children are obese compared to the citywide average of 20 14 12 Ninety percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day which is slightly higher than the city s average of 87 In 2018 65 of residents described their health as good very good or excellent less than the city s average of 78 14 13 For every supermarket in Bensonhurst there are 27 bodegas 14 10 The Bay Ridge Dyker Heights Bensonhurst area does not have any hospitals However the Coney Island Hospital NYU Langone Hospital Brooklyn and Maimonides Medical Center are located in nearby neighborhoods 63 19 20 Post offices and ZIP Codes EditBensonhurst is covered by ZIP Codes 11204 north of Bay Ridge Parkway and 11214 south of Bay Ridge Parkway 64 The United States Postal Service s Parkville Station is located at 6618 20th Avenue 65 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 66 Another post office the Bath Beach Station is located at 1865 Benson Avenue 67 Notable landmarks Edit Lenny s Pizza Magen David Synagogue The Historical New Utrecht Church serving the community since 1677 is the fourth oldest Reformed Church in America Lenny s Pizza made famous by John Travolta in the opening sequence of Saturday Night Fever is still operating 68 Parks Edit Milestone Park is a significant park in the Bensonhurst area It contains a replica of the oldest sandstone mile marker in New York City the original is housed at the Brooklyn Historical Society 69 Bensonhurst Park Adventurers Amusement Park a small amusement park on the waterfrontEducation EditBensonhurst generally has a lower ratio of college educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018 update While 36 of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher 26 have less than a high school education and 38 are high school graduates or have some college education By contrast 40 of Brooklynites and 38 of city residents have a college education or higher 14 6 The percentage of Bensonhurst students excelling in math has been increasing with math achievement rising from 50 percent in 2000 to 71 percent in 2011 though reading achievement within the same time period stayed steady at 52 70 Bensonhurst s rate of elementary school student absenteeism is lower than the rest of New York City In Bensonhurst 12 of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year compared to the citywide average of 20 of students 15 24 PDF p 55 14 6 85 of high school students in Bensonhurst graduate on time higher than the citywide average of 75 of students 14 6 Schools Edit The New York City Department of Education serves Bensonhurst 71 Zoned schools include P S 748 The Brooklyn School for Global Scholars P S 200 Benson School P S 112 Lefferts Park School P S 186 Dr Irving A Gladstone School P S 48 The Mapleton School P S 205 The Clarion School P S 101 The Verrazano School P S 204 The Vince Lombardi School P S 128 Bensonhurst School P S 247 The College Partnership Elementary School P S 177 The Marlboro P S I S 226 Alfred De B Mason School P S I S 686 Brooklyn School of Inquiry Success Academy Bensonhurst I S 96 Seth Low I S 281 Joseph B Cavallaro J H S 227 Edward B Shallow Junior High Brooklyn Studio Secondary School High schools include John Dewey High School New Utrecht High School Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School Lafayette High School Colleges and Universities Bramson ORT College Brooklyn Studio Secondary School The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn operates Catholic schools in the borough Our Lady of Guadalupe School in Bensonhurst was nicknamed OLG in the neighborhood In 2012 the school had 217 students but by 2019 enrollment was 120 That year its fund balance was 559 633 and its deficit was 215 377 72 It closed in 2019 73 Libraries Edit The Brooklyn Public Library BPL operates two libraries in Bensonhurst The Highlawn branch is located at 1664 West 13th Street near the intersection with Kings Highway The branch was renovated in 2005 2006 Unlike most other BPL branches it contains a circular reading room with multicolored walls 74 The New Utrecht branch is located at 1743 86th Street near Bay 17th Street It was founded in 1894 as the Free Library of the Town of New Utrecht and became a BPL branch in 1901 The current building opened in 1956 75 Transportation Edit The 62nd Street station platforms The neighborhood is well served by the New York City Subway The D train which runs on the BMT West End Line above 86th Street provides a direct connection to Grand Street in Manhattan 20 76 The N Q and W trains which run on the BMT Sea Beach Line near 63rd Street provide a direct connection to Canal Street 20 This provides convenient commutes into Manhattan s Chinatown for the growing Bensonhurst Chinese population 77 The Sea Beach Line has a station at Eighth Avenue in Brooklyn s Sunset Park Chinatown A transfer to the West End Line is available at New Utrecht Avenue 62nd Street The IND Culver Line along McDonald Avenue carrying the F and lt F gt trains runs through the most northeastern end of Bensonhurst between the Bay Parkway and Kings Highway stations 26 Subway stations in the neighborhood include 62nd Street 71st Street 79th Street 18th Avenue 20th Avenue Bay Parkway and 25th Avenue on the D train New Utrecht Avenue 18th Avenue 20th Avenue Bay Parkway on the N train Avenue N and Avenue P on the F and lt F gt trains 26 The B1 B3 B4 B6 B8 B9 B64 B82 and B82 SBS bus routes operate through Bensonhurst 78 In popular culture EditThis section appears to contain trivial minor or unrelated references to popular culture Please reorganize this content to explain the subject s impact on popular culture providing citations to reliable secondary sources rather than simply listing appearances Unsourced material may be challenged and removed May 2018 Bensonhurst has been portrayed frequently in film art and literature Thomas Wolfe mentions it in the 1930s in his short story Only The Dead Know Brooklyn noted for being written entirely in Brooklynese Later in the 1950s Bensonhurst was brought to fame by the television series The Honeymooners In the 1970s Welcome Back Kotter was set here Aired 1991 1993 on CBS television Brooklyn Bridge was set here during 1956 57 Jungle Fever The Warriors The Bensonhurst Spelling Bee by Funny or Die with Kelly Ripa featured a spelling bee parody making fun of stereotypical Italian Americans The 1972 song Bensonhurst Blues was made famous after Oscar Benton released his version of the song The 1991 Steven Segal action movie Out For Justice took place in the Italian American neighborhood where the opening scenes were filmed along 18th Avenue and 86th Street In a 1992 episode of Saturday Night Live Joe Pesci Julia Sweeney Adam Sandler Dana Carvey and Chris Rock appeared in a sketch called Bensonhurst Dating Game which depicted Italian American men eager to commit racial violence based on their views of interracial romance Batman villain Harley Quinn has been established as being from Bensonhurst going home to visit her family for Christmas in Gotham City Sirens 7 79 An episode of the animated series named after the character also features her returning to visit her family in Bensonhurst following a falling out with the rest of her crew Several characters from the soap opera General Hospital most notably Sonny Corinthos grew up in Bensonhurst 80 The French Connection 1971 took place along 86th Street most notably its famed car chase scene 81 Brooklyn 11223 an American reality TV series about a divided group of friends has also been filmed in parts of Bensonhurst Mob Wives filmed some scenes in Bensonhurst at the local boxing joint Evolution Boxing where Drita D Avano is trained by Anthony Pezzolanti Spike of Bensonhurst was filmed around Bensonhurst and won a Spirit Award The opening scene of Saturday Night Fever features John Travolta walking down 86th Street and grabbing slices to eat at Lenny s Pizza The 79th Street station was popularized in opening credits of Welcome Back Kotter The title character in the movie The Adventures of Ford Fairlane played by Andrew Dice Clay is from Bensonhurst 82 American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers filmed the music video for their single Go Robot off their 2016 album The Getaway The music video was inspired by the 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever American hip hop group Public Enemy use the line First nothing worse than the mother s pain of a son slain in Bensonhurst referencing the 1989 murder of Yusef Hawkins in their song Welcome to the Terrordome off of their 1990 album Fear of a Black Planet The titular character of John Wick Chapter 3 rides on horseback through 86th Street 83 Notable people EditNotable current and former residents of Bensonhurst include Steve Augeri born 1959 musician 84 Rich Aurilia born 1971 baseball player for the San Francisco Giants citation needed Scott Baio born 1960 actor who appeared on TV on Happy Days and its spin off Joanie Loves Chachi as well as on Charles in Charge 85 Seymour Benzer 1921 2007 physicist molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist 86 Bob Berg 1951 2002 jazz saxophonist 87 Julie Bovasso 1930 1991 actress citation needed Abe Burrows 1910 1985 playwright writer of Guys and Dolls and Can Can Kerry Butler born 1971 actress 88 Victor Calderone born 1967 club music DJ and producer 89 Jack Catran 1918 2001 industrial designer and linguist 90 Vincent D Onofrio born 1959 actor Law amp Order Criminal Intent 91 Vic Damone 1928 2018 singer 92 Millie Deegan 1919 2002 professional baseball player in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League 93 Perry Farrell born 1959 musician Joey Fatone born 1977 singer who was a member of boy band N Sync 94 Anthony Fauci born 1940 physician and immunologist who has been director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIAID since 1984 95 Jerry Ferrara born 1979 actor who appeared in the TV series Entourage 96 Lou Ferrigno born 1951 actor born in Bensonhurst known for his TV starring role as the Incredible Hulk 97 Daniel Franzese born 1978 actor who appeared in the film Mean Girls citation needed Harvey Fierstein born 1954 actor playwright and screenwriter 98 Marshall Flaum 1925 2010 documentary filmmaker 99 John Franco born 1960 former New York Mets baseball player 100 Jacque Fresco 1916 2017 founder and director of the Venus Project 101 Vincent Gardenia 1920 1992 stage film and television actor 102 Daniel Glass born 1956 music producer 103 Gary David Goldberg 1944 2013 television producer 104 Leon Goldstein 1932 1933 1999 college administrator who was President of Kingsborough Community College and acting Chancellor of the City University of New York 105 Elliott Gould born 1938 actor 106 Philip Habib 1920 1992 diplomat 107 Buddy Hackett 1924 2003 comedian Kenny Hickey born 1966 Johnny Kelly born 1968 and Peter Steele 1962 2010 rock band Type O Negative Curly Howard 1903 1952 of the Three Stooges Moe Howard 1897 1975 of the Three Stooges Shemp Howard 1895 1955 of the Three Stooges Richard Jeni 1957 2007 comedian 108 Skeery Jones radio producer for Z100 NYElvis Duran and the Morning Show Gabe Kaplan born 1945 actor comedian and professional poker player 109 Larry King 1933 2021 talk show host 110 Artie Kornfeld born 1942 songwriter music producer creator of Woodstock Music and Arts Festival 1969 111 Sandy Koufax born 1935 baseball player Los Angeles Dodgers 112 Herbie Kronowitz 1923 2012 boxer Adam Lazzara born 1982 lead singer of local band Taking Back Sunday Paul Lo Duca born 1972 baseball player Lordz Of Brooklyn hip hop rock group member Dino Bootz born and raised in Bensonhurst Paul Malignaggi born 1980 professional boxer Tony Mamaluke born 1977 former Extreme Championship Wrestling star Philomena Marano born 1952 artist Paul Marks 1926 2020 scientist Robert Merrill 1917 2004 operatic baritone Alyssa Milano born 1972 actress Jerrold Nadler born 1947 Congressman based in Manhattan who grew up in Bensonhurst and represents part of the area 113 Sam Nahem 1915 2004 Major League Baseball pitcher Man Parrish born 1958 music producer and artist Rhea Perlman born 1948 actress 114 Leah Remini born 1970 actress co starred in The King of Queens 115 Carl Sagan 1934 1996 astronomer teacher and author 116 Robert Sapolsky born 1957 neuroendocrinologist professor and author 117 Steve Schirripa born 1957 actor in HBO s The Sopranos John Serry Sr 1915 2003 concert accordionist composer arranger educator Tony Sirico 1942 2022 actor in HBO s The Sopranos 118 Ralph Snyderman born 1940 physician scientist and administrator 119 Paul Sorvino 1939 2022 actor known for his role in Goodfellas and father of Mira Sorvino 120 Peter Steele 1962 2010 musician 121 Ray Suarez born 1957 news correspondent 122 Anthony Terlato 1934 2020 winemaker Horatio Alger Award winner Father of Pinot Grigio in the U S 123 Frank P Tomasulo born 1947 film professor academic administrator journal editor author Alan Vega 1938 2016 vocalist and visual artist 124 Hilma Wolitzer born 1930 novelist 125 Peter Zimroth born 1943 attorney who served as the court appointed monitor of the New York Police Department s policies and practices regarding stop and frisk 126 Organized crime Edit A number of high profile organized crime figures hail from Bensonhurst including Frankie Yale Anthony Casso Paul Castellano Mikey DiLeonardo Anthony Gaggi Carlo Gambino John Gambino Sammy The Bull Gravano Gregory Scarpa and Carmine Sessa See also Edit New York City portalEvents Murder of Yusef HawkinsChinese enclaves Chinatowns in the United States Chinatown Manhattan 紐約華埠 Little Hong Kong Guangdong 小香港 廣東 Little Fuzhou 小福州 Chinatown Brooklyn 布鲁克林華埠 Chinatown Flushing 法拉盛華埠 Chinatown Elmhurst 唐人街 艾姆赫斯特 Corona Queens Chinatown Avenue U 唐人街 U大道 Italian 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Pratt Ethan Hawke for his new movie Archived May 11 2019 at the Wayback Machine New York Post March 7 2019 Accessed September 21 2019 Born in Bensonhurst but raised in Hawaii Colorado and Florida D Onofrio first earned recognition playing the doughy Private Pyle in Stanley Kubrick s 1987 Vietnam War drama Full Metal Jacket Vic Damone Who Crooned His Way to Postwar Popularity Dies at 89 The New York Times February 12 2018 Martin Douglas July 28 2002 Millie Deegan 82 Pioneer In Women s Baseball League The New York Times Retrieved September 22 2009 Mildred Eleanor Deegan was born on Dec 11 1919 in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bensonhurst She excelled in track and field at Lincoln High School and after graduation played amateur softball with a team called the Americanettes Darrow Chuck From birth to mirth A Joey Fatone chronology Archived May 16 2022 at the Wayback Machine The Philadelphia Inquirer April 4 2011 Accessed August 24 2020 Jan 28 1977 Joseph Anthony Fatone Jr born to Joseph and Phyllis Fatone in Bensonhurst Brooklyn N Y Specter Michael How Anthony Fauci Became America s Doctor An infectious disease expert s long crusade against some of humanity s most virulent threats Archived April 13 2020 at the Wayback Machine The New Yorker April 20 2020 Accessed August 26 2020 Fauci grew up in southwest Brooklyn first in Bensonhurst and later in Dyker Heights where his family ran a pharmacy and lived in an apartment upstairs Fortuna Matt Sports and Entourage were a classic match Archived November 28 2022 at the Wayback Machine The Athletic May 29 2020 Accessed August 24 2020 This was not out of character for the Bensonhurst bred Jerry Ferrara whose get up evolved from an audition Rosenblum Constance Brooklyn boy grows up and OUT Archived November 24 2021 at the Wayback Machine New York Daily News January 30 1977 Accessed August 24 2020 These kids adore Pumping Iron and what they love best about it is Lou Ferrigno a two time Mr Universe from Bensonhurst who is featured in the movie Chambers Andrea Harvey Fierstein the Gay Torchbearer Could Be Queen of the Tonys Archived September 22 2019 at the Wayback Machine People magazine June 6 1983 Accessed September 21 2019 Fierstein s unlikely roots were in Bensonhurst Brooklyn which was the home of Jackie Gleason s The Honeymooners Martin Douglas Marshall Flaum Documentary Filmmaker Dies at 85 Archived October 6 2018 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times October 8 2010 Retrieved October 9 2010 Mancari Jim Like Father Like Son In the Franco Family Archived September 22 2019 at the Wayback Machine The Tablet Brooklyn June 21 2012 Accessed September 21 2019 One of those ballplayers was J J Franco the son of long time New York Mets lefty relief pitcher John Franco John a Bensonhurst native spent 21 years in professional baseball 14 with the Mets Gore Jeff The view from Venus Jacque Fresco designed a society without politics poverty and war Will it ever leave the drawing board Archived October 9 2014 at the Wayback Machine Orlando Weekly October 12 2011 September 21 2019 Jacque Fresco was 13 years old when the Great Depression began The precipitating event the crash of the stock market in the final days of October 1929 occurred less than 10 miles away from his home at the corner of 67th Street and 20th Avenue in Brooklyn s Bensonhurst neighborhood Grimes William Vincent Gardenia Character Actor Is Dead at 71 Archived May 24 2020 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times December 10 1992 Accessed August 24 2020 Vincent Gardenia a character actor known for his work in theater and television and his supporting roles in the films Bang the Drum Slowly and Moonstruck was found dead yesterday in his hotel room in Philadelphia He was 71 years old and lived in Bensonhurst Brooklyn Daniel Glass 35 General manager EMI Records Group North America Archived September 22 2019 at the Wayback Machine Crain s New York Business Accessed September 21 2019 Raised in Bensonhurst Mr Glass was a premed student at Brooklyn College Barnes Mike Family Ties Creator Gary David Goldberg Dies at 68 Archived February 24 2019 at the Wayback Machine The Hollywood Reporter June 23 2013 Accessed August 24 2020 Goldberg was born on June 25 1944 in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn and raised in a noisy apartment building think the Kramdens place inThe Honeymooners that was crowded with his caring extended family Firestone David Public Lives An Amiable Defender of Colleges Under Fire Archived August 12 2019 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times February 6 1998 Accessed September 21 2019 Mr Goldstein 65 is a bearish man with a slow earnest speaking style and the sure footed Brooklyn instincts of a politician rather than an educator Born in Bensonhurst he worked his way up through CUNY from an instructor s post and long ago decided that he preferred the backslap to the cannon fire political style practiced by Mr Giuliani Houberman J The Goulden Age Archived February 28 2021 at the Wayback Machine The Village Voice April 10 2007 Accessed August 26 2020 Yeah baby Gould rocketed out of nowhere or rather Bensonhurst by way of Broadway to the fifth spot on the 1970 exhibitor s poll of box office stars Manegold Catherine S Philip C Habib a Leading U S Diplomat Dies at 72 Archived November 1 2020 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times May 27 1992 Accessed August 26 2020 A Lebanese Maronite Christian who grew up in a predominantly Jewish section of Bensonhurst Mr Habib became Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs in 1976 Furse Jane H N Y born funnyman kills self cops say Archived May 16 2022 at the Wayback Machine New York Daily News March 12 2007 Accessed August 26 2020 Jeni who grew up in Bensonhurst and graduated from Hunter College moved to the West Coast years ago but would stop into the club when he was in New York and perform sometimes Alexander John Beloved Brooklyn based TV series Welcome Back Kotter debuted 44 years ago Archived August 27 2020 at the Wayback Machine Brooklyn Reporter September 9 2019 Accessed August 26 2020 The show debuted on Sept 9 1975 Comedian Gabe Kaplan played title character Gabe Kotter who returns to teach at his alma mater Kaplan grew up in Bensonhurst and attended New Utrecht High School which doubled as the fictional James Buchanan High in the TV series Harris Elizabeth A Not All Make the Cut in a City Filled With Landmarks Archived November 12 2020 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times October 1 2012 Accessed August 26 2020 Some have sought for example an evaluation of a cheerless little spot underneath a bridge or a seemingly unremarkable house in Bensonhurst Brooklyn which happened to be the childhood home of the talk show host Larry King Belknap Johnny The Jews who created Woodstock They weren t rock legends but 50 years ago they made rock history Archived September 18 2020 at the Wayback Machine The Jewish Chronicle August 14 2020 Accessed August 26 2020 Back then record labels ruled the music world and Lang blagged his way into Capitol Records to meet their youngest executive Artie Kornfeld also Jewish also from Bensonhurst Lipman Steve Where Have You Gone Sandy Koufax Catching up with the baseball legend as the 50th anniversary of his iconic Yom Kippur day off approaches An exclusive Jewish Week interview Archived November 28 2022 at the Wayback Machine The Jewish Week March 12 2014 Accessed August 26 2020 Koufax who grew up in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn was and remains as far as is known devoutly secular with little formal Jewish education and according to all accounts no bar mitzvah Purdum Todd S Man in the News Persistence Pays Off Jerrold Lewis Nadler Archived May 5 2019 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times September 25 1992 Accessed September 21 2019 Born in Bensonhurst Brooklyn on June 13 1947 in a block that is now part of his district Mr Nadler first became active in politics as a student at Columbia in the 60s Myers Marc Poms Actress Rhea Perlman on Her Wild Ride From Coney Island to Emmy Winner The Brooklyn native was shy growing up but her humor surfaced on school stages Archived September 15 2019 at the Wayback Machine The Wall Street Journal April 30 2019 Accessed September 21 2019 My grandparents also lived in Coney Island then When I was 3 my parents moved to Bay Parkway in Brooklyn s Bensonhurst section Mcniff Eamon Bentley John Sancho Miguel Welsh Susan and Effron Lauren Leah Remini on Her Break With the Church of Scientology I Wanted to Be The One to Say It Archived October 9 2019 at the Wayback Machine ABC News October 30 2015 Accessed September 21 2019 Leah Remini grew up in the tight knit Italian neighborhood of Bensonhurst in Brooklyn New York Dicke William Carl Sagan an Astronomer Who Excelled at Popularizing Science Is Dead at 62 Archived March 23 2019 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times December 21 1996 Accessed September 21 2019 Carl Sagan was born on Nov 9 1934 in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn where his father was a cutter in a clothing factory Brown Patricia Leigh At Home With Dr Robert M Sapolsky Family Man With a Foot In the Veld Archived August 12 2018 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times April 19 2001 Accessed September 21 2019 Dr Sapolsky 43 grew up in Bensonhurst Brooklyn a place he describes as a true tribal enclave Hamill Denis The Man Inside Paulie Walnuts After life as a young hood Sopranos star enjoys his role as a make believe gangster Archived July 6 2020 at the Wayback Machine New York Daily News January 16 2020 Accessed August 26 2020 In one year it s like I got a life transplant Sometimes I gotta remind myself I m Tony Sirico from Bensonhurst Snyderman Ralph A Chancellor s Tale Transforming Academic Medicine Archived November 28 2022 at the Wayback Machine JSTOR Accessed August 26 2020 From the perspective of my humble beginnings in Bensonhurst Brooklyn the likelihood of my being offered this lofty position would have seemed so remote as to be considered impossible Hamill Denis That Championship Director Paul Sorvino Goes Behind The Camera For A Cable Film Of The Prizewinning Play Archived May 16 2022 at the Wayback Machine New York Daily News May 16 1999 Accessed August 24 2020 W hen he was a 4 year old kid in Bensonhurst Paul Sorvino told his mother I m going to be an actor Benitez Eves Tina A Death in the Family Peter Steele of Type O Negative Remembered By Bandmate Johnny Kelly Archived December 2 2020 at the Wayback Machine Billboard magazine April 14 2020 Accessed August 24 2020 Born Petrus Thomas Ratajczyk in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn on Jan 4 1962 and raised in Bensonhurst Steele was in bands with childhood friend and future Type O keyboardist producer Josh Silver since their teens The Old Neighborhood A conversation with Ray Suarez Land amp People Archived May 16 2022 at the Wayback Machine The Trust for Public Land Accessed August 24 2020 Q Tell us about your old neighborhood A It was Brooklyn I was born in Crown Heights on the edge of Bedford Stuyvesant and when I was three we moved to Bensonhurst Asimov Eric Anthony Terlato Who Brought Pinot Grigio to the U S Dies at 86 In a 60 year career as a wine importer and marketer he introduced Americans to lesser known labels and shaped tastes Archived August 24 2020 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times July 23 2020 Accessed August 24 2020 Anthony John Terlato was born on May 11 1934 in Brooklyn and grew up in the Bensonhurst neighborhood Kaminer Michael Alan Vega Suicide Frontman and Jewish Punk Rock Pioneer Dies at 78 The Jewish singer in the electronic punk minimalist two man band Suicide and prolific solo artist died this weekend Archived November 29 2020 at the Wayback Machine Haaretz July 19 2016 Accessed August 24 2020 Born in 1938 as Boruch Alan Bormowitz in Bensonhurst Brooklyn Vega studied fine arts and physics at Brooklyn College Van Gelder Lawrence In Her Novels The Strength of Joy Archived September 22 2019 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times November 6 1977 Accessed September 21 2019 The middle child among three daughters Mrs Wolitzer grew up in Bensonhurst where her parents her father a retired dress contractor her mother a housewife still live Goodman J David Court Appointed Police Monitor Has Fought for City and Against It Archived September 22 2019 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times September 21 2019 Born on Jan 11 1943 Peter Lenard Zimroth the son of a dry cleaner and a homemaker grew up in Bensonhurst and Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn External links Edit Media related to Bensonhurst Brooklyn at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Bensonhurst Brooklyn amp oldid 1127110592, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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