What is characterized by Brooklyn brokers as the greatest real estate boom since the one which built up East New York over night, thirteen years ago, is daily expected in the Brownsville section.

Between 1943 and 1970, Brownsville went from being a "white, predominantly Jewish, working- class neighborhood" of 100,000 to being a 75% black/20% Puerto Rican neighborhood of 70,000. This ...

Indeed, in his well-received book, Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto, historian Wendell Pritchett points out that while many employed, moderate-income ...

Forty years ago — on May 9, 1968 — the local school board in Brooklyn’s black ghetto of Ocean Hill-Brownsville sent telegrams to 19 unionized educators, informing them that their employment ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — A boarded-up NYPD station in Brownsville is trading its handcuffs ... Another worried the development could “bring all the ghetto into it.” The stationhouse ...

NEW YORK - Two little girls, 9 and 11, were shot while playing in a park Monday near a school in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Investigators believe the girls, who are cousins, were not the intended targets.