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{{Short description|Neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City}}
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'''East New York''' is a residential [[neighborhood]] in the eastern section of the [[New York City]] [[Boroughs of New York City|borough]] of [[Brooklyn]]. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are roughly the [[Cemetery Belt]] and the [[Queens]] borough line to the north; the Queens borough line to the east; [[Jamaica Bay]] to the south; the [[New York City Subway]]'s [[BMT Canarsie Line]], the [[Bay Ridge Branch]] railroad tracks, and Van Sinderen Avenue to the west. [[Linden Boulevard]], [[Pennsylvania Avenue (Brooklyn)|Pennsylvania Avenue]], and [[Atlantic Avenue (New York City)|Atlantic Avenue]] are the primary thoroughfares through East New York.

East New York was founded as the Town of New Lots in the 1650s. It was annexed as the 26th Ward of the rapidly growing [[Brooklyn|City of Brooklyn]] in 1886, and became part of New York City in 1898. During the latter part of the twentieth century, East New York came to be predominantly inhabited by [[African Americans]] and [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanics]].

East New York is part of [[Brooklyn Community Board 5|Brooklyn Community District 5]], and its primary [[ZIP Code]]s are 11207, 11208, and 11239.<ref name="NYCPlanning"/> It is patrolled by the 75th Precinct of the [[New York City Police Department]].<ref name="NYPD 75th Precinct"/> [[New York City Housing Authority]] (NYCHA) property in the area is patrolled by P.S.A. 2. Coverage by the [[Fire Department of New York]] is provided by Battalions 39 & 44. Politically it is represented by the [[New York City Council]]'s 37th and 42nd Districts.<ref>[http://www.nyc.gov/html/dc/downloads/pdf/brooklyn.pdf Current City Council Districts for Kings County], New York City. Accessed May 5, 2017.</ref>

==History==

===Early history and development===
At the northern edge of what is now East New York, a chain of hills—also known as a [[terminal moraine]]—separates northwestern [[Long Island]] from [[Jamaica, Queens|Jamaica]] and the [[Hempstead Plains]], the main part of Long Island's fertile outwash plain. The southern portions of the neighborhood, meanwhile, consisted of salt marshes and several creeks, which drained into [[Jamaica Bay]]. These areas were originally settled by the Jameco [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]], and later used by the Canarsee and Rockaway tribes as fishing grounds.<ref name="GatewayIIFEIS-2009"/>{{rp|Vol 1, p. 7.4}}<ref name="NYCPks-SpringCrkPk">{{cite web |title=Spring Creek Park: History |url=http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/spring-creek-park-b165/history |publisher=[[New York City Parks Department]] |access-date=November 18, 2015}}</ref><ref name="NYCPks-SpringCrkPk-1988Survey">{{cite web |author=Natural Resources Group |title=Natural Area Mapping and Inventory of Spring Creek 1988 Survey |url=http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_about/parks_divisions/nrg/documents/Ecological_Assessment_Spring_Creek.pdf |publisher=[[New York City Parks Department]] |access-date=November 18, 2015}}</ref><ref name=French1860 />

In the 1650s [[Dutch Empire|Dutch colonists]] began settling in what are now the eastern sections of [[Brooklyn]], forming the towns of [[Flatbush]], [[Bushwick, Brooklyn|Bushwick]], and New Lots (the predecessor of East New York).<ref name="GatewayIIFEIS-2009"/>{{rp|Vol 1, p. 7.4}}<ref name="NYCDCP-BwayJctStudy-2008">{{cite web |title=Broadway Junction Transportation Study: NYC Department of City Planning Final Report-November 2008 |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/transportation/broadway_junction_complete.pdf |website=[[Government of New York City|nyc.gov]] |publisher=[[New York City Department of City Planning]] |access-date=October 27, 2015 |date=November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100606140932/http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/transportation/broadway_junction_complete.pdf |archive-date=June 6, 2010 }}</ref> The area along with the rest of Brooklyn and modern New York City was ceded to the [[British Empire]] in 1664. A few 18th-century roads, including the [[Fulton Street, Brooklyn|ferry road]] or ''Palmer Turnpike'' from Brooklyn to Jamaica, passed through the chain of hills; hence the area was called "[[Jamaica Pass]]".<ref name=JacksonKeller2010 /> During the [[American Revolutionary War]], invading [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] and [[Hessian (soldiers)|Hessian]] (German) soldiers ended an all-night forced march at this pass in August 1776 to surprise and [[Flanking maneuver|flank]] General [[George Washington]] and the [[Continental Army]], to win the [[Battle of Long Island]] (also known as the Battle of Brooklyn or the Battle of Brooklyn Heights).<ref name="NYCDCP-BwayJctStudy-2008" /><ref name=JacksonKeller2010 />

In 1835, [[Connecticut]] merchant John Pitkin (the namesake of Pitkin Avenue) purchased the land of the Town of New Lots north of New Lots Avenue, opening a shoe factory at what is now Williams Street and Pitkin Avenue. Pitkin named the area "East New York" to signify it as the eastern end of New York City.<ref name=JacksonKeller2010 /> In 1836 the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad (soon to become part of the [[Long Island Rail Road]], or LIRR) opened through the area; it did not originally stop in East New York, but a stop there was added by 1844.<ref>{{cite web |title=THE BROOKLYN & JAMAICA RAIL ROAD THE LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD and ATLANTIC AVENUE PART ONE |url=http://www.arrts-arrchives.com/atlaverr1.html |website=ARRT'S ARRCHIVES}}</ref> The LIRR moved its terminus to Queens in 1860, and the line through Brooklyn was shortened to end at East New York.<ref>{{cite web |title=Early History of the LIRR |url=http://www.lirrhistory.com/lirrhist.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000304071119/http://www.lirrhistory.com/lirrhist.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=March 4, 2000 |website=lirrhistory.com}}</ref>

In 1852, New Lots was officially ceded from the Town of Flatbush.<ref name="French1860">{{cite book |first=John Homer |last=French |title=Gazetteer of the State of New York: Embracing a Comprehensive View of the Geography, Geology, and General History of the State, and a Complete History and Description of Every County, City, Town, Village and Locality: With Full Table of Statistics |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_R_zHwh4xByQC |year=1860 |publisher=R. Pearsall Smith |page=372}}</ref><ref name="NYCDCP-BwayJctStudy-2008" /> In the middle 19th century, the road between Brooklyn and Jamaica became the Brooklyn and Jamaica [[Plank Road]]. The [[Brooklyn and Rockaway Beach Railroad]] (1865) was built to connect the LIRR's [[Atlantic Branch]] with Canarsie at a point later known as [[Broadway Junction (New York City Subway)|Broadway Junction]]. As often happened at 19th-century railroad [[Junction (rail)|junctions]], a [[railway town]] arose. [[Urban sprawl|Sprawling development]] into the recently rustic northern part of the Town of New Lots followed the reach of elevated transit lines into the area: the [[BMT Jamaica Line|Jamaica Avenue Line]] in 1885 and the [[Fulton Street Line (elevated)|Fulton Street Line]] in 1889. The road to Brooklyn was renamed Fulton Street, the one to Jamaica, [[Jamaica Avenue]], and the one to [[Williamsburg, Brooklyn|Williamsburg]], [[Broadway (Brooklyn)|Broadway]].

===Annexation to Brooklyn and 20th century===
East New York (as the Town of New Lots) was annexed as the 26th Ward of the rapidly growing [[City of Brooklyn]] in 1886; in 1898 after a decade-long controversy with debates, campaigns and publicity, the community was merged into New York City as a whole with the consolidation of Brooklyn and the other four boroughs into a single entity as the "[[City of Greater New York]]". In the 20th century its name came to be applied to much of the former township.<ref name="NYCDCP-BwayJctStudy-2008" />

In 1939, the [[Works Progress Administration]] ''Guide to New York City''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thenewpress.com/books/wpaguide.htm |title=All Books |work=The New Press |access-date=May 28, 2015}}</ref> wrote:

{{bquote|The development of East New York began in 1835 through the enterprise of John R. Pitkin, a wealthy [[Connecticut]] merchant who visualized it as a great city rivaling New York. The [[Panic of 1837]] smashed his hopes. After 1853, a modest development began. By the 1930s, the residents were chiefly [[Italian American|Italians]], [[American Jews|Jews]], [[German American|Germans]], and [[Russian American|Russians]] who moved in from [[Brownsville, Brooklyn|Brownsville]], [[Bushwick, Brooklyn|Bushwick]], and other near-by crowded localities. Many of the [[Slavic peoples|Slavic]] families continue to burn candles before icons, and observe religious fetes according to the old calendar...}}

After [[World War II]], thousands of [[manufacturing]] jobs left New York City thereby increasing the importance of the remaining jobs to those with limited education and job skills. During this same period, large numbers of [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Ricans]] from the [[Caribbean Sea|Caribbean island]] and African-Americans from the South emigrated to New York City looking for employment. East New York, no longer replete with the jobs the new residents had come for, was thereby faced with a host of new [[socioeconomics|socioeconomic]] problems, including widespread [[unemployment]] and [[crime]].

===Economic downturn===
[[File:East New York Abandonment.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Abandoned houses in East New York]]
Walter Thabit, a [[urban planning|city planner]] for East New York, chronicled in his 2003 book, ''How East New York Became a Ghetto'', the change in population from mostly [[working class]] Italians and Jewish residents to residents of [[Stateside Puerto Ricans|Puerto Rican]] and [[African Americans|African American]] descent.<ref>{{cite book |last=Thabit |first=Walter |title=How East New York Became a Ghetto |year=2003 |location=New York |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=0-814-78266-3}}</ref> Thabit argues that [[landlord]]s and [[real estate]] agents played a significant role in the downturn of the area. Puerto Ricans were moving to New York City in the late 1950s, at a time when unemployment rates in [[Puerto Rico]] soared to 25 percent, and left Puerto Rico on the brink of poverty. By 1966, Blacks and Puerto Ricans were the majority of the neighborhood with around 48,000 Black residents, 30,000 Puerto Rican residents, and 22,000 remaining White residents mostly Italian and Jewish residents, though eventually pretty much almost all of the White residents would vacate out of the neighborhood in the later decades. Poverty became very highly concentrated, with the neighborhood's population largely being on welfare benefits by the 1960s. The neighborhood also began to suffer from numerous arson incidents and building fires, and buildings, previously occupied by Italian and Jewish residents, were increasingly abandoned as a result of increasing crime rates and racial tensions between White and non-White residents. During the 1960s, there were reported cases of Italian youths and Black and Puerto Rican youths getting into racially motivated fights.<ref name=hoeast>{{cite book|last=Thabit|first=Walter|url=https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/kafka18/files/2018/01/Thabit-pages.pdf|title=How East New York Became a Ghetto|publisher=New York University Press|website=eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu|access-date=March 6, 2023}}{{Dead link|date=January 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Thabit also describes how the construction of [[public housing]] projects in East New York further contributed to its decline, noting that many of the developments were built by corrupt managers and contractors. He argues that the [[Government of New York City|city government]] largely ignored the community when it could have helped turn it around. On the other hand, writing in the ''[[New York Press]]'', Michael Manville accused Thabit of poor research, sweeping generalizations, and a failure to distinguish the actions of allegedly racist individuals from the effects of what he describes as "a racist capitalist system", and contends that much of the [[urban renewal]] and public housing efforts of the period were in fact well-intentioned, if ill-considered and hubristic.<ref>{{cite news |last=Manville |first=Michael |url=http://www.nypress.com/16/34/books/books.cfm |title=Look Back in Anger: An urban scholar lets fly |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051227055236/http://www.nypress.com/16/34/books/books.cfm |archive-date=December 27, 2005 |work=[[New York Press]] |volume=16 |issue=34}}</ref>

Since the late 1950s, East New York has had some of the highest [[crime rates]] in [[Brooklyn]], and is considered by some to be the borough's [[murder capital]], alongside [[Brownsville, Brooklyn|Brownsville]]. Many social struggles associated with [[poverty]]—including crime and [[drug addiction]]—have been prevalent in the area for decades.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} Despite the decline of crime compared to their peaks during the [[crack cocaine|crack]] and [[heroin]] epidemics, violent crime continues to be widespread in the community.<ref name="75rd">{{cite web |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs075pct.pdf |title=73rd Precinct CompStat Report |access-date=January 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524073051/http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs075pct.pdf |archive-date=May 24, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> East New York's 75th Police Precinct reported the highest murder rate in the city in 2011, according to crime reports compiled by DNAinfo.com.<ref name=":18" /> East New York has significantly higher dropout rates and incidences of violence in its schools.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/fea/20060320/202/1792 |title=NYC Dropout Rates |publisher=Gothamgazette.com |date=March 20, 2006 |access-date=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Students must pass through metal detectors and swipe ID cards to enter the buildings. Other problems in local schools include low test scores and high truancy rates.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}}

===Urban renewal and early signs of gentrification===
In the 1980s [[East Brooklyn Congregations|East Brooklyn Congregations (EBC)]], an affiliate of the [[Industrial Areas Foundation|Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF)]] organized to address the need for quality affordable housing in East New York. This coalition advocated that vacant New York City owned land be provided at no cost for the development of new affordable owner occupied housing with subsidies for low-interest mortgages.<ref name="nyt19870924">{{cite news |last=Roberts |first=Sam |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/24/nyregion/metro-matters-despite-success-housing-effort-still-struggling.html |title=Metro Matters; Despite Success, Housing Effort Still Struggling |date=September 24, 1987 |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=January 18, 2017}}</ref><ref name="nyt19850818">{{cite news |last=Schwartz |first=Ethan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/18/nyregion/church-group-wins-city-s-help-in-brooklyn-housing-drive.html |title=CHURCH GROUP WINS CITY'S HELP IN BROOKLYN HOUSING DRIVE |date=August 18, 1985 |newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=January 18, 2017}}</ref><ref name="nyt19840221">{{cite news |last=Schanberg |first=Sydney H. |title=New York; Bricks and Local Power |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/21/opinion/new-york-bricks-and-local-power.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 21, 1984 |access-date=January 18, 2017 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> This effort was called the [[Spring Creek, Brooklyn#Nehemiah Spring Creek|Nehemiah Program]]. It was replicated in other parts of the city and country and led to national legislation.<ref name=nyt19870924/> The Nehemiah homes were funded by a loan from $8 million loan fund from three Brooklyn Churches. Its setup was described as follows by ''The New York Times'' the city provides vacant sites, forgives real-estate taxes on the homes (but not the land) for 10 years, and provides what amounts to a $10,000 interest-free loan per house. Buyers pay $43,500 (their median income was $27,000; 40 percent moved from public or subsidized housing)."<ref name=nyt19870924/><ref name=nyt19850818/><ref name=nyt19840221/>

New developments are rising in the area, including the [[Gateway Center (Brooklyn)|Gateway Center]] [[shopping mall]] located on what was once part of a [[landfill]] near [[Jamaica Bay]]. Gateway Center, in [[Starrett City|Spring Creek]], is a suburban-style shopping complex with multiple large stores.<ref>{{cite news |title=A Mall Planned for East New York Is 88% Leased |first=Sana |last=Siwolop |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E1D7153AF935A25756C0A9679C8B63 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 16, 2001 |access-date=August 27, 2010}}</ref> Gateway Center consists of two structures. Gateway Center South, the first structure, opened in 2002,<ref name="Canarsie-GatewayBklyn-Oct2002">{{cite news|last=Friedman|first=Neil S.|title=Mayor Leads Ceremony Officially Opening Gateway Mall|url=http://www.canarsiecourier.com/news/2002-10-03/TopStories/008.html|work=Canarsie Courier|access-date=November 16, 2015|date=October 3, 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117021235/http://www.canarsiecourier.com/news/2002-10-03/TopStories/008.html|archive-date=November 17, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> and Gateway Center North, the second development, opened in 2014.<ref name="BklynEagle-Aldi-Gateway-Aug2015">{{cite news|last=Croghan|first=Lore|title=Ka-Ching! Super-discount supermarket Aldi arrives in East New York|url=http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2014/8/1/ka-ching-super-discount-supermarket-aldi-arrives-east-new-york|work=[[Brooklyn Eagle]]|date=August 1, 2014|access-date=November 16, 2015}}</ref>

Although East New York has not experienced the same level of [[gentrification]] as many other Brooklyn neighborhoods, since the 2010s it has been moving into the pre gentrification stages as real estate companies have been trying to buy up properties and raise property value prices. With the neighborhood rezoned in 2016 under [[Bill de Blasio|Bill de Blasio's administration]], luxury housing developments have been introduced into the area. Real estate agencies have sometimes persuaded homeowners to sell the properties to them, and often they would resell them to other companies for a higher price. Local residents, who are overwhelmingly Black and Latino, have accused these real estate companies of being racist and trying to gentrify them out of the neighborhood to bring wealthier, white residents.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bkreader.com/2022/04/15/east-ny-cypress-hills-residents-of-color-face-highest-risk-of-displacement-in-the-city%EF%BF%BC/|title=East NY Cypress Hills residents of color face highest risk of displacement in the city|website=BKReader.com|access-date=March 6, 2023|date=April 15, 2022|last=Edwards|first=Christopher|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416174522/https://bkreader.com/2022/04/15/east-ny-cypress-hills-residents-of-color-face-highest-risk-of-displacement-in-the-city%EF%BF%BC/|archive-date=April 16, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://citylimits.org/2022/01/03/house-flippers-continue-to-target-east-new-york-residents-blame-the-2016-rezoning/ | title=House Flippers Continue to Target East New York. Residents Blame the 2016 Rezoning | date=January 3, 2022 | last=Brand | first=David | work=City Limits}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | date=March 5, 2020 | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFQ0cFhFpV8 | title=Brooklyn homeowners push back against gentrification | publisher=PIX11 News | website=[[YouTube]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | date=December 16, 2015 | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=991dY1MRTYE | title=Fighting to Protect Cypress Hills & East New York from Gentrification | website=[[YouTube]] }}</ref>

==Demographics==
Based on data from the [[2010 United States census]], the population of East New York was 91,958, an increase of 8,683 (10.4%) from the 83,275 counted in the [[2000 United States census|2000 census]]. Covering an area of {{convert|2,665.73|acres}}, the neighborhood had a population density of {{convert|34.5|PD/acre|PD/sqmi PD/sqkm}}.<ref name="PLP5">[http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/t_pl_p5_nta.pdf Table PL-P5 NTA: Total Population and Persons Per Acre - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010], Population Division - New York City Department of City Planning, February 2012. Accessed June 16, 2016.</ref>

The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 63.6% (58,453) [[African American (U.S. census)|African American]], 3.0% (2,764) [[Asian (U.S. census)|Asian]], 1.3% (1,240) [[White (U.S. census)|White]], 0.3% (291) [[Native American (U.S. census)|Native American]], 0.0% (38) [[Pacific Islander (U.S. census)|Pacific Islander]], 0.7% (683) from [[Race (United States census)|other races]], and 1.3% (1,237) from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. census)|Latino]] of any race were 29.6% (27,252) of the population.<ref name="PLP3A">[http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/t_pl_p3a_nta.pdf Table PL-P3A NTA: Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010], Population Division - [[New York City]] Department of City Planning, March 29, 2011. Accessed June 14, 2016.</ref>

The entirety of Community Board 5 had 181,300 inhabitants as of [[New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene|NYC Health]]'s 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 78.6 years.<ref name="CHP2018">{{Cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/data/2018chp-bk5.pdf|title=East New York and Starrett City (Including Broadway Junction, City Line, Cypress Hills, East New York, New Lots, Spring Creek and Starrett City)|date=2018|website=nyc.gov|publisher=NYC Health|access-date=March 2, 2019}}</ref>{{Rp|2, 20}} This is lower than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.<ref name=":21">{{Cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/tcny/community-health-assessment-plan.pdf|title=2016-2018 Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan: Take Care New York 2020|date=2016|website=[[government of New York City|nyc.gov]]|publisher=[[New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene]]|access-date=September 8, 2017|archive-date=September 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909004755/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/tcny/community-health-assessment-plan.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{Rp|53 (PDF p. 84)}}<ref>{{cite web | title=New Yorkers are living longer, happier and healthier lives | website=New York Post | last=Short | first=Aaron | date=June 4, 2017 | url=https://nypost.com/2017/06/04/new-yorkers-are-living-longer-happier-and-healthier-lives/ | access-date=March 1, 2019}}</ref> Most inhabitants are middle-aged adults and youth: 27% are between the ages of 0 and 17, 28% between 25 and 44, and 34% between 45 and 64. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 10% and 12% respectively.<ref name="CHP2018" />{{Rp|2}}

As of 2016, the median [[household income]] in Community Board 5 was $36,786.<ref name="CB5PUMA">{{cite web|url=https://censusreporter.org/profiles/79500US3604008-nyc-brooklyn-community-district-5-east-new-york-starrett-city-puma-ny/|title=NYC-Brooklyn Community District 5--East New York & Starrett City PUMA, NY|access-date=July 17, 2018|archive-date=March 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306044026/https://censusreporter.org/profiles/79500US3604008-nyc-brooklyn-community-district-5-east-new-york-starrett-city-puma-ny/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2018, an estimated 30% of East New York residents lived in poverty, compared to 21% in all of Brooklyn and 20% in all of New York City. One in ten residents (10%) 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 East New York, higher than the citywide and boroughwide rates of 52% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, {{as of|2018|lc=y}}, East New York is considered to be low-income relative to the rest of the city and not [[gentrification|gentrifying]].<ref name="CHP2018" />{{Rp|7}}

During the 1960s, East New York transitioned from being predominately Jewish and Italian to being predominately African American and Puerto Rican. However, now East New York is more diversified, with large [[African Americans|African American]], [[Stateside Puerto Ricans|Puerto Rican]], [[Dominican Americans|Dominican]], [[West Indian Americans|West Indian]], and [[South Asian Americans|South Asian]] populations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/lucds/bk5profile.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226090822/http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/lucds/bk5profile.pdf|url-status=dead|title=Brooklyn Community District 5|archive-date=February 26, 2015|access-date=March 6, 2023}}</ref> According to the 2020 census data from [[New York City Department of City Planning]], Black residents make up the majority of East New York, but there are also significant populations of Hispanic residents. In East New York North, there are between 20,000 and 29,999 Black residents and between 10,000 and 19,999 Hispanic residents. City Line has about an equal population of Black and Hispanic residents (10,000 to 19,999) and 5,000 to 9,999 Asian residents. East New York New Lots has 30,000 to 39,999 Black residents and 10,000 to 19,999 Hispanic residents. Cypress Hills is the only section of East New York that has a majority Hispanic community, with 20,000 to 29,999 Hispanic residents and 5,000 to 9,999 Black residents. In all parts of East New York except for City Line, there were less than 5,000 white and Asian residents.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/planning-level/nyc-population/census2020/dcp_2020-census-briefing-booklet-1.pdf|title=Key Population & Housing Characteristics; 2020 Census Results for New York City|publisher=[[New York City Department of City Planning]]|date=August 2021|access-date=November 7, 2021|pages=21, 25, 29, 33}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Map: Race and ethnicity across the US | website=CNN | last1=Keefe | first1=John | last2=Wolfe | first2=Daniel | last3=Hernandez | first3=Sergio  | date=August 14, 2021 | url=https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/us/census-race-ethnicity-map/ | access-date=November 7, 2021}}</ref>

==Geography==
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East New York covers a relatively large area, abutting the [[Queens]] border to the north and east. North of East New York is [[Highland Park (Brooklyn)|Highland Park]], the [[Cemetery Belt]], and the neighborhoods of [[Ridgewood, Queens|Ridgewood]] and [[Glendale, Queens|Glendale]] in Queens. The neighborhoods of [[Bushwick, Brooklyn|Bushwick]] and [[Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn|Bedford–Stuyvesant]] are northwest of East New York, while [[Brownsville, Brooklyn|Brownsville]] is to the west and [[Canarsie, Brooklyn|Canarsie]] is to the southwest. [[Jamaica Bay]] and the [[Shirley Chisholm State Park]] are located on the southern shore, while [[Woodhaven, Queens|Woodhaven]], [[Ozone Park]], and [[Howard Beach]] in Queens are located to the east.[[File:Eastnewyork graphicmap.jpg|thumb|right|Boundaries of East New York]]

===Land use===
East New York consists of mixed properties but primarily [[Semi-detached housing|semi-detached homes]], two-to-four family houses, and multi-unit apartment buildings, including [[condominium]]s and co-ops. The total land area is one square mile.

The area is also home to the East Brooklyn Industrial Park. The 44-block [[industrial park]] was established in 1980 by the New York City Public Development Corporation in East New York's northwest quadrant. It is bounded by [[Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn|Atlantic Avenue]], Sheffield Avenue, Sutter Avenue and Powell Street.

====NYCHA Public Housing Developments====
[[Public housing]] developments of various type and a smaller number of tenements populate the area. There are eleven [[New York City Housing Authority]] developments located in East New York.<ref name="NYCHA">{{cite web|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycha/html/home/home.shtml |title=NYCHA Redirect |work=nyc.gov |access-date=May 28, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150525030524/http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycha/html/home/home.shtml |archive-date=May 25, 2015  }}</ref><ref name="auto">{{cite web | url=https://nycha.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=41c6ff5e73ec459092e982060b7cf1a1 | title=NYCHA Development Interactive Map |publisher=New York City Housing Authority }}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{cite web | url=https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/66a6bbe303db433b978370b1191046f7/ | title=PACT Interactive Map | website=ArcGIS Experience Builder}}</ref>
   
* Cypress Hills Houses; fifteen 7-story buildings.
* East New York City Line; thirty-three 3-story buildings.
* Long Island Baptist Houses; four, 6-story rehabilitated tenement buildings.
* [[Louis Heaton Pink Houses]]; twenty-two 8-story buildings.
* Unity Plaza (Sites 4, 5A, 6, 7, 11, 12, 27); five 6-story buildings.
* Unity Plaza (Sites 17, 24, 25A); three buildings 6 stories tall.
* Vandalia Avenue; two 10-story buildings.
* '''[[Rental Assistance Demonstration|NYCHA Converted RAD PACT Section 8 Developments]] Since December 28, 2021'''
** ''Boulevard Houses was the first of 11 developments to be built in the area. Built in 1950, it includes eighteen buildings, 6 and 14 stories tall.''
** ''Belmont-Sutter Area; 3 Buildings With A Total Of 72 Apartment Units''
** ''Fiorentino Plaza; eight 4-story buildings.''
** ''Linden Houses; nineteen buildings, 8 and 14 stories.''
** ''Pennsylvania Avenue-Wortman Avenue; three buildings, 8 and 16 stories tall.''

=====NYCHA Converted Section 8 RAD Developments=====
Starting in 2016, [[New York City Housing Authority]] began to convert some of their developments into the [[Rental Assistance Demonstration|RAD PACT Section 8 Management]] with [[public–private partnership]] [[lease]]s with [[Real estate development|private real estate developers and companies]] to help manage the properties as well as to get the capital needs and funding to make the necessary repairs and to maintain them properly. Several of the public housing developments in East New York have been switched to this program as of December 28, 2021 along with providing social service providers on their sites to cater to the needs of their local residents, which is nearly half of the East New York NYCHA developments being converted to this program.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.thecity.nyc/housing/2020/2/7/21212243/what-is-rad-a-look-at-nycha-s-private-management-move | title=What is RAD? A Look at NYCHA's Private Management Move | last=Smith | first=Rachel Holliday | date=February 7, 2020 | work=The City}}</ref><ref name="auto"/><ref name="auto1"/>

NYCHA signed [[public–private partnership]] [[lease]]s  with ''The Hudson Companies, Inc.''; ''Property Resources Corporation''; ''Duvernay + Brooks LLC''; ''Property Resources Corporation''; and ''Lisa Management, Inc.'' to manage '''Belmont-Sutter Area Houses''', '''Boulevard Houses''', and '''Fiorentino Plaza Houses''' with a contracted social services provider called [[CAMBA, Inc.]] on their sites and as well as with ''Douglaston Development''; ''L+M Development Partners''; ''Dantes Partners''; ''SMJ Development Corp''; ''Clinton Management''; and ''C&C Apartment Management LLC'' to manage '''Linden Houses''' and '''Pennsylvania Avenue-Wortman Avenue Houses''' with a contracted social services provider called [[University Settlement Society of New York|University Settlement]] on their sites.

====East New York Farms====
With the founding of [[East New York Farms]] in 1998, there has been an increase usage in lots. Various organizations and local community groups have different gardens in order to beautify the area.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/garden/east-new-yorks-flourishing-west-indian-gardens.html|title=The Seeds They Carried|last=Tortorello|first=Michael|date=October 18, 2012|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 25, 2016}}</ref>

====African Burial Ground Square====
African Burial Ground Square was designated in 2013 after remains were found some years earlier between New Lots and Livonia Avenues from Barbey to Schenck Streets. It shares space with the New Lots branch of the [[Brooklyn Public Library]].<ref>"Citywide African Burial Grounds Gain Recognition", ''[[Our Time Press]]'', October 31&nbsp;– November 6, 2013, p.10.</ref> After months of effort, the burial ground was finally confirmed and formally recognized.<ref>{{cite web |title=East New York African Burial Ground officially recognized |url=http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2013/oct/17/east-new-york-african-burial-ground-officially-rec/ |website=amsterdamnews.com |last=Bailey |first=Jerome |date=October 17, 2013 |access-date=January 20, 2016}}</ref>

===Subsections===

====City Line====
[[File:Liberty Avenue streetscape.jpg|right|thumb|[[Liberty Avenue (New York City)|Liberty Avenue]] in City Line]]
City Line is a sub-section of East New York bordering the neighborhoods of [[Cypress Hills, Brooklyn|Cypress Hills]] to the north and southwest and [[Ozone Park, Queens|Ozone Park]] ([[Queens]]) to the east. The neighborhood is named "City Line" for its location in the former [[City of Brooklyn]] near the border with Queens County before Brooklyn and parts of Queens County were [[Borough (New York City)|consolidated into New York City in 1898]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Liff |first=Bob |title=Where City Drew the Line Double Lives the Norm in Border Nabe |newspaper=Daily News |location=New York |date=April 27, 1999 |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/ny_local/1999/04/27/1999-04-27_where_city_drew_the_line___d.html |access-date=August 22, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124040856/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/ny_local/1999/04/27/1999-04-27_where_city_drew_the_line___d.html |archive-date=November 24, 2010 }}</ref> Many Italians, Germans and Irish originally lived in the area, which today is home to immigrants from Bangladesh, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, and Puerto Rico.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hays |first=Elizabeth |title=Thriving City Line Draws Hard Workers |newspaper=Daily News |location=New York |date=March 9, 2003 |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/ny_local/2003/03/09/2003-03-09_thriving_city_line_draws_har.html |access-date=August 22, 2009}}</ref> The neighborhood also includes African Americans, Latinos and a scattered presence of South Asians.<ref name="130.166.124.2">{{cite web |url=http://130.166.124.2/ny_1.html |title=New York City |work=124.2 |access-date=May 28, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130330180534/http://130.166.124.2/ny_1.html |archive-date=March 30, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="aafny">{{cite web |url=http://www.aafny.org/cic/default.asp |title=Asian American Federation: Census Information Center |work=aafny.org |access-date=May 28, 2015 |archive-date=August 20, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820174913/http://aafny.org/cic/default.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref> The main commercial district is located along [[Liberty Avenue (New York City)|Liberty Avenue]]. City Line is home to many restaurants, shopping stores, and food markets.

====New Lots====
[[File:New Lots Community Church jeh.jpg|thumb|New Lots Community Church]]
New Lots is a sub-section of East New York. The "New Lots" east of the Town of [[Flatbush]] were laid out in the 18th century and were considered to be an eastward extension of Flatbush. The area was the site of the Town Hall of New Lots (located at 109-111 Bradford Street<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2016/1/20/preservation-advocates-call-landmarking-east-new-yorks-rezoning-area|title=Preservation advocates call for landmarking in East New York's rezoning area|website=Brooklyn Eagle |last=Croghan |first=Lore |date=January 20, 2016 |access-date=December 29, 2017}}</ref>) from 1852 when the area seceded from Flatbush until it was annexed in 1886 as the 26th Ward of Brooklyn. The population is largely [[African Americans|African-American]] and [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic-American]]. IS 218, PS 72 and Invictus Preparatory Charter School are right across from the public houses.<ref name="NYCDCP-BklynCD5">{{cite web |title=COMMUNITY PORTAL: BROOKLYN Community District 5 |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/neigh_info/bk05_info.shtml |website=[[Government of New York City|nyc.gov]] |publisher=[[New York City Department of City Planning]] |access-date=November 18, 2015}}</ref><ref name="NYCDCP-BwayJctStudy-2008" /><ref>[http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Town/1890s.ENY.html Brooklyn Genealogy] New Lots in 1890s</ref>

====Spring Creek====
[[Spring Creek, Brooklyn|Spring Creek]] is the southeastern part of the former Town of New Lots, and is often included in East New York.<ref name="JacksonKeller2010">{{cite book |author1=Kenneth T. Jackson |author2=Lisa Keller |author3=Nancy Flood |title=The Encyclopedia of New York City: Second Edition |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lI5ERUmHf3YC&pg=PT5716 |date=December 1, 2010 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-18257-6 |page=5716}}</ref> Its boundaries moving clockwise are: Linden Boulevard to the north; Betts Creek and Fountain Avenue to the east; [[Gateway National Recreation Area]] to the south; and Schenck Avenue and Hendrix Creek to the west.<ref name="NYCDCP-BklynCD5" /> Some locations north of this area up to Linden Boulevard are also considered part of the neighborhood. Spring Creek includes the [[Starrett City, Brooklyn|Starrett City]] apartment complex, the [[Gateway Center (Brooklyn)|Gateway Center]], the Spring Creek Gardens gated housing development, and the Nehemiah Spring Creek and Gateway Elton affordable housing developments.<ref>{{cite news |last=Sheftell |first=Jason |title=Spring Creek Nehemiah is an affordable housing success story in East New York |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/real-estate/spring-creek-nehemiah-affordable-housing-success-story-east-new-york-article-1.1123089 |access-date=November 14, 2013 |newspaper=Daily News |location=New York |date=July 27, 2012}}</ref>

====Cypress Hills====
{{other uses|Cypress Hills (disambiguation)}}
[[File:Cypress Hills.jpg|thumb|Rowhouses in Cypress Hills]]
Cypress Hills, a subsection of East New York,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5D81639F93BA15757C0A960958260|title=If You're Thinking of Living In/Cypress Hills - An Evolving Northeast Brooklyn Enclave |work=The New York Times |date=April 28, 1996|access-date=April 25, 2016|last1=Fioravante |first1=Janice }}</ref> is bordered on the south by [[City Line, Brooklyn|City Line]]; to the north by [[Cypress Hills Cemetery]]; to the west by [[Bushwick, Brooklyn|Bushwick]]; and to the east by [[Woodhaven, Queens|Woodhaven]] and [[Ozone Park, Queens|Ozone Park]] in [[Queens]]. Cypress Hills is bordered by Highland Park Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue on the north, Eldert Lane on the east, Atlantic Avenue and Conduit Boulevard on the south, and Pennsylvania Ave on the west.<ref>{{Cite news|title = Where Prices Are Practical, and Cuisines Colorful - Living in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/realestate/05Living.html|newspaper = The New York Times|date = December 2, 2010|access-date = February 18, 2016|issn = 0362-4331|first = Gregory|last = Beyer}}</ref> The Cypress Hills and Arlington branches of the [[Brooklyn Public Library]] serve this community. This neighborhood is demographically mixed with [[Dominican Americans|Dominican-Americans]], [[Stateside Puerto Ricans]], [[South Asian Americans|South Asian-Americans]], [[Caribbean American]]s, [[White people|Caucasians]] and [[African Americans]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.city-data.com/neighborhood/Cypress-Hill-Brooklyn-NY.html |title=Cypress Hill neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York (NY), 11208 subdivision profile - real estate, apartments, condos, homes, community, population, jobs, income, streets |work=city-data.com |access-date=May 28, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.urbanresearchmaps.org/plurality/|title=Analysis: NYC 2000 to 2010 demographic change|access-date=April 25, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151013065024/http://www.urbanresearchmaps.org/plurality/|archive-date=October 13, 2015}}</ref> The Hispanic or Latino population were 60.9%.

Area schools include:
* [[Franklin K. Lane High School]] was at the extreme northeast corner of the neighborhood, north of [[Jamaica Avenue]]; it closed in 2011. New schools opened on the campus<ref>{{Cite news|last=Considine|first=Austin|date=March 13, 2008|url=http://www.qchron.com/editions/south/two-new-schools-to-open-at-franklin-k-lane-in/article_8f8ec4b8-f582-575f-af58-d9f27f6301d0.html|title=Two New Schools To Open At Franklin K. Lane In Fall|work=Queens Chronicle|access-date=May 5, 2018}}</ref> and they are administered by the [[New York City Department of Education]] as H.S. 420.  Today the school is the campus site for five different high schools: The Academy of Innovative Technology, The Brooklyn Lab School, Cypress Hill Prep Academy, The Urban Assembly School for Collaborative Healthcare, and Multicultural High School.
* [[Public School 108|P.S. 108 Sal Abbracciamento School]] is at 200 Linwood Street (on the corner of Arlington).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.schoolmatters.com/schools.aspx/q/page=sp/sid=26163 |title=Injury Blogs |work=schoolmatters.com |access-date=May 28, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091208042028/http://www.schoolmatters.com/schools.aspx/q/page=sp/sid=26163 |archive-date=December 8, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is a public elementary school with an enrollment of about 900 students in grades pre-K through 5.<ref>{{cite web |title=Welcome - P.S. 108 Sal Abbracciamento - K108 |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/19/K108/default.htm |publisher=New York City Dept. of Education}}</ref> Its building dates to 1895 and is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].
* Blessed Sacrament Elementary School is on Euclid Avenue, between Fulton Street and Ridgewood Avenue.
* Saint Fortunata is located on Linden Boulevard and Crescent Street.
* IS 171 is on Ridgewood Avenue between Nichols Avenue and Lincoln Avenue.
* IS 302 is also a public school, on Linwood Street between Atlantic Avenue and Liberty Avenue. The school shut down in 2013 and was replaced with 3 schools, Vista Academy, Liberty Avenue Middle School, and Achievement First Appolo.
* Within IS 302, due to lack of funding, there used to be a public school ranging from grades K (kindergarten) to 8th grade, P.S. 89 (aka Cypress Hills Community School) which has since attained its own school building not far from IS 302 on the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Warwick Street.
* PS 7 sits between Crescent Street and Hemlock Street.
* PS 65 "The Little Red School House" serves 549 students in grades K–5. The school moved to Jamaica Avenue in 2009, so space could be made for a charter school.
* PS 290 sits on the corner of Fulton Street and Schenck Avenue.
* Followers of Jesus School is a private Christian school that sits on Atlantic Avenue, between Shepherd Avenue and Essex Street.

====Starrett City====
{{main|Starrett City}}
[[File:SpringCreek1138a.jpg|thumb|Fresh Creek Basin, with Starrett City in the background]]
[[Starrett City]] (also known as Spring Creek Towers) is the largest subsidized rental apartment complex in the United States.<ref name="Bklynr-LessonStarrett-2014">{{cite web|last=Mironova|first=Oksana|title=The Lesson of Starrett City: At the edge of East New York, a model of affordable housing endures|url=http://bklynr.com/the-lesson-of-starrett-city/|publisher=BKLYNR|date=February 6, 2014|access-date=November 18, 2015}}</ref> Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise are: Flatlands Avenue to the north, Hendrix Street to the east, Jamaica Bay to the south and the Fresh Creek Basin. Opened in 1974,<ref name="NYTimes-Starrett-SpringCk-1989">{{cite web|last=Oser|first=Alan S.|title=Perspectives: The Starrett Proposal; Giving Housing a Push in Spring Creek|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/05/realestate/perspectives-the-starrett-proposal-giving-housing-a-push-in-spring-creek.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|issn=0362-4331|access-date=November 16, 2015|date=November 5, 1989}}</ref><ref name="NYTimes-StarrettSpringCrk-1994">{{cite web|last=Oser|first=Alan S.|title=Perspectives; Revising the Script for a Starrett Plan in Brooklyn|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/25/realestate/perpsectives-revising-the-script-for-a-starrett-plan-in-brooklyn.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|issn=0362-4331|access-date=November 16, 2015|date=September 25, 1994}}</ref> the Starrett City site spanned over {{convert|153|acre|km2}} before being subdivided in 2009 as part of a refinancing. The housing development contains 5,881 apartment units in 46 buildings.<ref name="nyt-2007-08-03">{{cite news |title=With Starrett City Deal Nearly Dead, Developer Tries Again |first=Charles V. |last=Bagli |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/nyregion/03starrett.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|issn=0362-4331 |date=August 3, 2007 |access-date=September 2, 2010}}</ref> The residential site also includes eight parking garages and a community center.<ref name="GatewayIIFEIS-2009">{{cite web|author1=AKRF, Inc., Eng-Wong Taub & Associates, Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc.|title=Final Environmental Impact Statement for Gateway Estates II|url=http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/misc/Enviromental-impact-statements/Gateway-tates-II-FEIS.zip|website=[[Government of New York City|nyc.gov]]|publisher=[[New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development]]|access-date=November 16, 2015|date=February 4, 2009|format=ZIP|archive-date=November 20, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120143334/http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/misc/Enviromental-impact-statements/Gateway-tates-II-FEIS.zip|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{rp|2–3}}<ref name="HomeRep-StarrettCity-Jan1977">{{cite news|title=Starrett City-A City Within Brooklyn|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Home%2520Reporter%2520%26%2520Sunset%2520News%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Home%2520Reporter%2520%26%2520Sunset%2520News%25201977%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Home%2520Reporter%2520%26%2520Sunset%2520News%25201977%252000247.pdf|access-date=December 14, 2017|work=Home Reporter and Sunset News|via=[[Fultonhistory.com]]|date=January 28, 1977|page=16}}</ref> The area contains a shopping center as well.<ref name="Goodwin 1979">{{cite web |last=Goodwin |first=Michael |title=Starrett City Lone Concern: Rent |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/09/18/archives/starrett-city-lone-concern-rent-crime-rate-is-low-starrett-citys.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 18, 1979 |access-date=July 10, 2018 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> A number of parcels of undeveloped land totaling {{convert|13|acre}} were separated out from the residential site as part of the refinancing.<ref name="Recap-Starrett">{{cite web|title=Starrett City (Spring Creek Towers)|url=http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/649099/8159147/1282002889497/Recap+client+sheets+-+4.pdf?token=yV5CW6mI13x4Hq5MOOx1mlLvJuQ%3D|publisher=Recap Real Estate Advisors|access-date=December 15, 2017|archive-date=September 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926210719/http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/649099/8159147/1282002889497/Recap%2Bclient%2Bsheets%2B-%2B4.pdf%3Ftoken%3DyV5CW6mI13x4Hq5MOOx1mlLvJuQ%253D|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The development was designed by [[Herman Jessor]], organized in the [[towers in the park]] layout. The buildings utilize a simple "[[American Foursquare|foursquare]]" design.<ref name="Bklynr-LessonStarrett-2014"/><ref name="NYMag1988">{{cite magazine |last=Hellman |first=Peter |title=A Dilemma Grows in Brooklyn: Starrett City Fights to Keep Its Quotas and Its Racial Mix|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LuUCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA55 |magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |publisher=New York Media, LLC |date=October 17, 1988 |access-date=December 13, 2017 |volume=21 |issue=41 |pages=54–58 |issn=0028-7369}}</ref>{{rp|56}}<ref name="NYTimes-Starrett-Dedicate-Oct1974">{{cite news |last=Lichtenstein |first=Grace |title=5,881 Unit Project Is Dedicated Here; Became and Wilson Attend Ceremony at Starrett City in the Canarsie Section |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1974/10/14/80428386.pdf|access-date=December 14, 2017|work=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|date=October 14, 1974}}</ref> The residential portion of the property has eight "sections" each including several buildings, its own field, recreational area ([[jungle gym]], park, [[American handball|handball]] court, [[basketball]] court) and a five-story [[parking garage]] for residents in that section.<ref name="HomeRep-StarrettCity-Jan1977"/> These sections are Ardsley, Bethel, Croton, Delmar, Elmira, Freeport, Geneva, and Hornell; each named after municipalities in [[New York (state)|New York State]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Markowitz |first=Marty |author-link=Marty Markowitz |title=Borough President's Letter To Residents Of Spring Creek Towers |url=http://www.canarsiecourier.com/news/2007-02-01/OtherNews/013.html |work=Canarsie Courier |date=February 1, 2007 |access-date=December 14, 2017 |archive-date=October 7, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151007054220/http://www.canarsiecourier.com/news/2007-02-01/OtherNews/013.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The community had its own newspaper, known as the ''Spring Creek Sun''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Carlson |first=Tucker |author-link=Tucker Carlson |title=Safe Zone |url=http://www.city-journal.org/html/5_3_sndgs08.html |work=City Journal |date=Summer 1995 |access-date=May 28, 2015 |archive-date=June 5, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150605233438/http://www.city-journal.org/html/5_3_sndgs08.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

====The Hole====
{{main|The Hole, New York}}
[[The Hole, New York|The Hole]] is an isolated section that is also a part of Queens.<ref>{{cite web |last=Dorr |first=Nate |title=In the Hole |date=July 22, 2009 |url=http://www.imposemagazine.com/photos/in-the-hole |work=Impose Magazine |access-date=September 26, 2012}}</ref> A run-down neighborhood considered "lost", it has the lowest elevation within the city<ref name="lmagazine">{{cite web |last=Asch |first=Mark |title=Brooklyn's Lost Neighborhood: The Hole |url=http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/brooklyns-lost-neighborhood-the-hole/Content?oid=1792323 |work=The L Magazine |date=October 27, 2010 |access-date=September 26, 2012 |archive-date=September 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928232517/http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/brooklyns-lost-neighborhood-the-hole/Content?oid=1792323 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and is considered to be like the [[Wild West]] in some fashions.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E00EEDB153AF934A25753C1A9629C8B63 |title=Echoes of the Wild West Mark an Urban Frontier |first=Janon |last=Fisher |work=The New York Times |date=October 17, 2004 |access-date=September 26, 2012}}</ref> It is generally bordered by Ruby Street, South [[Conduit Avenue]], and [[Linden Boulevard]].

The area is home to the [[Federation of Black Cowboys]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Kilgannon |first=Corey |title=Black Cowboys Ride the Range in Queens, and Keep a Sharp Lookout for Traffic |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/10/nyregion/10cowboys.html |access-date=September 26, 2012 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 10, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Waddell |first=Robert |title=THE FRESH AIR FUND; Black Cowboys Share Their Art With Urban Children |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/06/nyregion/the-fresh-air-fund-black-cowboys-share-their-art-with-urban-children.html |access-date=September 26, 2012 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 6, 1995}}</ref>

==Police and crime==
[[File:75pctenyjeh.JPG|thumb|right|75th Precinct of the [[NYPD]] pictured in 2009]]

East New York is patrolled by the 75th Precinct of the [[New York City Police Department|NYPD]].<ref name="NYPD 75th Precinct">{{Cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/75th-precinct.page|title=NYPD – 75th Precinct|website=www.nyc.gov|publisher=[[New York City Police Department]]|access-date=October 3, 2016}}</ref> While total crime has decreased since the 1990s, it is still higher in East New York than in the rest of the city.<ref name=":18">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dnainfo.com/crime-safety-report/brooklyn/east-new-york/|title=East New York and Cypress Hills – DNAinfo.com Crime and Safety Report|website=www.dnainfo.com|access-date=October 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043940/https://www.dnainfo.com/crime-safety-report/brooklyn/east-new-york/|archive-date=March 6, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2023, there were 24 homicides in the 75th Precinct, a rate of 25.8 per 100,000 population, vs. a rate of 4.4 homicides per 100,000 population for the city as a whole.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tracking crime and safety in your neighborhood |url=https://abc7ny.com/feature/new-york-safety-tracker-crime-stats-how-safe-is-my-neighborhood-zip-code-statistics/12352050/ |access-date=2024-01-07 |website=ABC7 New York |language=en}}</ref>

The precinct reported 24 murders, 762 rapes, 696 robberies, 1,079 felony assaults, 354 burglaries, 1,073 grand larcenies, and 551 grand larcenies auto in 2023.<ref>{{cite web |title=75th Precinct CompStat Report |url=https://www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-075pct.pdf |access-date=December 31, 2023 |website=www.nyc.gov |publisher=[[New York City Police Department]]}}</ref>

== Fire safety ==
The [[New York City Fire Department]] (FDNY) operates four fire stations and one [[New York City Fire Department Bureau of EMS|EMS]] station in East New York:<ref>{{Cite FDNY locations}}</ref>
* Engine Company 332/Ladder Company 175 – 165 Bradford Street<ref>{{cite web | website=FDNYtrucks.com | title=Engine Company 332/Ladder Company 175 | url=http://www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/brooklyn/e332.htm | access-date=March 2, 2019}}</ref>
* Engine Company 290/Ladder Company 103 – 480 Sheffield Avenue<ref>{{cite web | website=FDNYtrucks.com | title=Engine Company 290/Ladder Company 103 | url=http://www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/brooklyn/e290.htm | access-date=March 2, 2019}}</ref>
* Engine Company 236 – 998 Liberty Avenue<ref>{{cite web | website=FDNYtrucks.com | title=Engine Company 236 | url=http://www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/brooklyn/e236.htm | access-date=March 2, 2019}}</ref>
* Engine Company 225/Ladder Company 107/Battalion 39 – 799 Lincoln Avenue<ref>{{cite web | website=FDNYtrucks.com | title=Engine Company 225/Ladder Company 107/Battalion 39 | url=http://www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/brooklyn/e225.htm | access-date=March 2, 2019}}</ref>
* EMS Station 39

== Health ==
{{As of|2018}}, [[preterm birth]]s and births to teenage mothers are more common in East New York than in other places citywide. In East New York, there were 110 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 29.3 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).<ref name="CHP2018" />{{Rp|11}} East New York has a relatively low population of residents who are [[Health insurance coverage in the United States|uninsured]], or who receive healthcare through [[Medicaid]].<ref name=":14">[http://www.health.ny.gov/health_care/medicaid/redesign/dsrip/pps_applications/docs/maimonides_medical_center/3.8_maimonides_cna.pdf New York City Health Provider Partnership Brooklyn Community Needs Assessment: Final Report], [[New York Academy of Medicine]] (October 3, 2014).</ref> In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 7%, which is lower than the citywide rate of 12%.<ref name="CHP2018" />{{Rp|14}}

The concentration of [[particulates|fine particulate matter]], the deadliest type of [[air pollution|air pollutant]], in East New York is {{convert|0.0077|mg/m3|oz/ft3}}, lower than the citywide and boroughwide averages.<ref name="CHP2018" />{{Rp|9}} Thirteen percent of East New York residents are [[Smoking|smokers]], which is slightly lower than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers.<ref name="CHP2018" />{{Rp|13}} In East New York, 35% of residents are [[Obesity|obese]], 14% are [[Diabetes mellitus|diabetic]], and 34% have [[hypertension|high blood pressure]]—compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively.<ref name="CHP2018" />{{Rp|16}} In addition, 25% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.<ref name="CHP2018" />{{Rp|12}}

Seventy-six percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is lower than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 70% of residents described their health as "good", "very good", or "excellent", less than the city's average of 78%.<ref name="CHP2018" />{{Rp|13}} For every supermarket in East New York, there are 13 [[convenience store|bodegas]].<ref name="CHP2018" />{{Rp|10}}

There are several hospitals in the East New York area, including NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, East New York; [[Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center]]; and [[Kings County Hospital Center]].<ref name=":14"/>{{rp|19–20}}

==Post offices and ZIP Codes==
The majority of East New York is covered by [[ZIP Code]]s 11207 and 11208, though Starrett City is covered by its own zip code, 11239.<ref>{{cite web | title=NYC Neighborhood ZIP Code Definitions | website=New York State Department of Health | date=November 7, 2014 | url=https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/cancer/registry/appendix/neighborhoods.htm | access-date=March 5, 2019 | archive-date=March 27, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327233549/https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/cancer/registry/appendix/neighborhoods.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[United States Post Office]] operates the East New York Station at 2645 Atlantic Avenue and the Spring Creek Station at 1310 Pennsylvania Avenue.<ref>{{cite web|title=USPS Locations|url=https://tools.usps.com/go/POLocatorDetailsAction!input.action?locationTypeQ=po&address=11226&radius=20&locationType=po&locationID=1382524&locationName=SPRING+CREEK&address2=&address1=1310+PENNSYLVANIA+AVE+STE+1| access-date = June 20, 2018}}</ref>

== Education ==

East New York generally has a lower ratio of college-educated residents than the rest of the city {{as of|2018|lc=y}}. While 21% of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher, 23% have less than a high school education and 56% 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.<ref name="CHP2018" />{{Rp|6}} The percentage of East New York students excelling in reading and math has been increasing, with reading achievement rising from 26 percent in 2000 to 32 percent in 2011, and math achievement rising from 19 percent to 43 percent within the same time period.<ref name=":17">{{cite web |url=http://furmancenter.org/files/sotc/BK_05_11.pdf |title=East New York/Starrett City – BK 05 |date=2011 |publisher=[[Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy]] |access-date=October 5, 2016}}</ref>

East New York's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is higher than the rest of New York City. In East New York, 31% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per [[school year]], compared to the citywide average of 20% of students.<ref name=":21" />{{Rp|24 (PDF p. 55)}}<ref name="CHP2018" />{{Rp|6}} Additionally, 68% of high school students in East New York graduate on time, lower than the citywide average of 75% of students.<ref name="CHP2018" />{{Rp|6}}

=== Schools ===
The [[New York City Department of Education]] operates public schools in the area. East New York high schools suffer from high dropout rates. As with other New York City schools, gang violence is a common problem. East New York has two higher institutes, [[Touro College]] and Be'er Hagolah Institute in [[Starrett City]]. Spring Creek High School opened in 2012, becoming the fifth high school in 60 years and the first in the Spring Creek area.

One of the neighborhood's local [[public high schools]], [[Thomas Jefferson High School (New York City)|Thomas Jefferson High School]], shut down in June 2007 due to extremely low academic performance: a graduation rate of 29%, with only 2% entering the school at grade level in [[Mathematics|math]] and 10% entering at grade level in [[Reading (activity)|reading]]. The school was known for its [[Reserve Officers' Training Corps|ROTC]] program. Four new high schools were organized in the old building.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.insideschools.org/fs/school_profile.php?id=1027 |title=H.S. 435 Thomas Jefferson High School profile |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060106220104/http://www.insideschools.org/fs/school_profile.php?id=1027 |archive-date=January 6, 2006 |access-date=December 4, 2006}}</ref>

=== Libraries ===
The [[Brooklyn Public Library]] (BPL) has four branches in East New York:

* The Arlington branch at 203 Arlington Avenue near Warwick Street, a [[List of Carnegie libraries in New York City|Carnegie library]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/arlington|title=Arlington Library|date=August 23, 2010|website=Brooklyn Public Library|access-date=February 21, 2019}}</ref>
* The Cypress Hills branch at 1197 Sutter Avenue near Crystal Street. It was founded in 1955 and the current building opened in 1995.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/cypress-hills|title=Cypress Hills Library|date=August 19, 2011|website=Brooklyn Public Library|access-date=February 21, 2019}}</ref>
* The New Lots branch and New Lots Learning Center at 665 New Lots Avenue near Barbey Street. It was founded in 1942 and became a BPL branch in 1949.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/new-lots|title=New Lots Library|date=August 22, 2011|website=Brooklyn Public Library|access-date=February 21, 2019}}</ref> MASS Design Group and Marble Fairbanks were hired to redesign the library in 2024.<ref>{{cite web | last=Yoon | first=Claudia | title=MASS Design Group and Marble Fairbanks Architects to redesign library in Brooklyn on site of African American burial ground | website=The Architect’s Newspaper | date=December 13, 2024 | url=https://www.archpaper.com/2024/12/mass-design-group-marble-fairbanks-architects-redesign-library-brooklyn/ | access-date=May 15, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Niland | first=Josh | title=Plans for restorative New Lots Library are unveiled in Brooklyn | website=Archinect | date=December 9, 2024 | url=https://archinect.com/news/article/150457128/plans-for-restorative-new-lots-library-are-unveiled-in-brooklyn | access-date=May 15, 2025}}</ref>
* The Spring Creek branch at 12143 Flatlands Avenue near New Jersey Avenue, which opened in 1977.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/spring-creek|title=Spring Creek Library|date=August 22, 2011|website=Brooklyn Public Library|access-date=February 21, 2019}}</ref>
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==Transportation==
[[File:Broadway Junction from outside vc.jpg|thumb|[[Broadway Junction station|Broadway Junction]] station]]
East New York is well-served by public transportation, including these [[New York City Subway]] services:<ref>{{NYCS const|map}}</ref>
* The {{NYCS trains|New Lots}} at [[Pennsylvania Avenue (IRT New Lots Line)|Pennsylvania Avenue]], [[Van Siclen Avenue (IRT New Lots Line)|Van Siclen Avenue]] and [[New Lots Avenue (IRT New Lots Line)|New Lots Avenue]] on the [[IRT New Lots Line]].
* The {{NYCS trains|Canarsie}} at [[Broadway Junction (New York City Subway)|Broadway Junction]], [[Atlantic Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line)|Atlantic Avenue]], [[Sutter Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line)|Sutter Avenue]], [[Livonia Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line)|Livonia Avenue]], and [[New Lots Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line)|New Lots Avenue]] on the [[BMT Canarsie Line]].
* The {{NYCS trains|Fulton local}} at [[Broadway Junction (New York City Subway)|Broadway Junction]], [[Liberty Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line)|Liberty Avenue]], [[Van Siclen Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line)|Van Siclen Avenue]], [[Shepherd Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line)|Shepherd Avenue]], [[Euclid Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line)|Euclid Avenue]], and [[Grant Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line)|Grant Avenue]] on the [[IND Fulton Street Line]].
* The {{NYCS trains|Jamaica east}} at [[Broadway Junction (New York City Subway)|Broadway Junction]], [[Alabama Avenue (BMT Jamaica Line)|Alabama Avenue]], [[Van Siclen Avenue (BMT Jamaica Line)|Van Siclen Avenue]], [[Cleveland Street (BMT Jamaica Line)|Cleveland Street]], [[Norwood Avenue (BMT Jamaica Line)|Norwood Avenue]], [[Crescent Street (BMT Jamaica Line)|Crescent Street]], and [[Cypress Hills (BMT Jamaica Line)|Cypress Hills]] on the [[BMT Jamaica Line]].

The following [[MTA Regional Bus Operations]] routes serve the neighborhood:<ref>{{Cite NYC bus map|B}}</ref>
* The {{NYC bus link|BM2|BM5|prose=y}} express routes
* The {{NYC bus link|B6|B12|B13|B14|B15|B20|B25|B82|B82 SBS|B83|B84|Q7|Q8|Q24|Q56|Q112|prose=y}} local routes.
* The {{NYC bus link|B60}} and {{NYC bus link|B103}} buses, despite mainly serving Canarsie, have the same terminal on the border with the neighborhood between Williams and Louisiana Avenues.

In addition, the neighborhood contains the [[East New York station]] on the [[Long Island Rail Road]]'s [[Atlantic Branch]].  The New York City Subway's [[East New York Yard]], [[Livonia Yard]], and [[Pitkin Yard]], as well as New York City Bus' [[East New York Bus Depot]] and MTA Bus Company’s [[Spring Creek Bus Depot]], are all in the neighborhood, but none of these are open to the public. The freight-only [[Bay Ridge Branch]] demarcates the western border of East New York.

Avenues and other major highways and roadways designed for automobiles include:

* [[Atlantic Avenue (New York City)|Atlantic Avenue]]
* [[Pennsylvania Avenue (Brooklyn)|Pennsylvania Avenue]]
* [[Fulton Street (Brooklyn)|Fulton Street]]
* [[Linden Boulevard|Linden Blvd]] ([[NY 27|NY-27]])
* [[Fountain Avenue]]
* Sutter Avenue
* [[Conduit Avenue]]
* [[Flatlands Avenue]]
* [[Belt Parkway]]
* [[Jackie Robinson Parkway]]

==In popular culture==
In October 2022, [[CBS]] series debuted a TV drama serial show simply called ''[[East New York (TV series)|East New York]]'' with storylines about the fictional 74th Police Precinct showing the lives of their NYPD officers patrolling the East New York neighborhood and responding to crime scenes and investigations that take place in the neighborhood.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cbs.com/shows/east-new-york/ | title=East New York (Official Site) Watch on CBS | website=[[CBS]] }}</ref>

==Notable residents==
[[File:Lloyd C. Blankfein.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Lloyd Blankfein]]]]
* [[AZ (rapper)|AZ]] (born 1972), rapper<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bossip.com/1291169/rapper-az-returns-to-brooklyn-for-new-bet-web-series/|title=Rapper AZ Returns To Brooklyn For New BET Web Series|date=March 9, 2016|website=Bossip|access-date=April 20, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Lloyd Blankfein]] (born 1954), investment banker who served as the CEO and chairman of [[Goldman Sachs]] from 2006 to 2018<ref>Manskar, Noah. [https://nypost.com/2020/02/12/ex-goldman-sachs-ceo-lloyd-blankfein-says-russia-should-back-bernie-sanders/ "Ex-Goldman Sachs CEO predicts Sanders would ‘ruin our economy’"], ''[[New York Post]]'', February 12, 2020. Accessed March 26, 2020. "While Blankfein was born in the Bronx, he grew up in the Linden housing projects in East New York. Sanders grew up in the middle-class neighborhood of Midwood."</ref>
*[[Steve Buscemi]] (born 1957), actor and filmmaker<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wallis|first=David|date=August 11, 2015|title=Mr. Think: Steve Buscemi on Self-Acceptance, Sibling Rivalry and His Heady Talk Show|url=https://observer.com/2015/08/mister-think-park-bench-host-steve-buscemi-reimagines-the-traditional-talk-show/|url-status=live|access-date=December 28, 2021|website=Observer|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150812184816/http://observer.com/2015/08/mister-think-park-bench-host-steve-buscemi-reimagines-the-traditional-talk-show/ |archive-date=August 12, 2015 }}</ref>
* [[Lou Fine]] (1914–1971), comic book artist
* [[Sylvia Fine]] (1913–1991), lyricist, composer, and producer, and the wife of the comedian [[Danny Kaye]].<ref name=DN1959>Okon, May. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106453321/sylvia-fine-and-danny-kaye-of-east-new/ "Talent will out; Sylvia Fine spotted Danny Kaye's 'by radar' and they teamed up maritally and professionally"],''[[New York Daily News]]'', August 9, 1959. Accessed July 27, 2022, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "Although Danny and Sylvia were born and grew up just a few blocks from each other in the East New York section of Brooklyn, they didn't meet each other until both were reaching for a handhold in show business."</ref>
* [[Martin Goldstein]] ({{circa|1905}}–1941), member of a gang of hitmen, known as [[Murder, Inc.]]
* [[John Gotti]] (1940–2002), mob boss<ref>Cutler, Jacqueline. [https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/ny-john-gotti-crew-book-20190804-gw2lsijgebcglnxyqqr3cy3bd4-story.html "Gotti and his goons, how the man became a myth and a legend"], ''[[New York Daily News]]'', August 4, 2019. Accessed March 26, 2020. "Gotti’s beginnings were humble. Born in the Bronx in 1940, he grew up in East New York, the whole family of 15 crowded into one apartment."</ref>
* [[Henry Hill]] (1943–2012), mobster<ref>Dodero, Camille. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170519110617/http://www.villagevoice.com/2012/06/13/henry-hill-goodfellas-gangster-on-art-the-witness-protection-program-and-his-adult-circumcision/ "Henry Hill, Goodfellas Gangster, on Art, the Witness Protection Program, and His Adult Circumcision"], ''[[The Village Voice]]'', June 13, 2012. Accessed March 26, 2020. "Henry Hill was best known by Ray Liotta’s face. An East New York native famously mentored by the Lucchese crime family, Hill was the Lufthansa-heisting mobster whose 1986 memoir, the Nicholas-Pileggi-shaped ''Wiseguy'', served as the inspiration for Martin Scorsese’s modern classic ''Goodfellas''."</ref>
* [[Danny Kaye]] (1911–1987), actor, comedian, singer and dancer.<ref name=DN1959/><ref>[https://collections.mcny.org/asset-management/24UAKVK6WHIS?FR_=1&W=1536&H=722 Danny Kaye], [[Museum of the City of New York]]. Accessed July 27, 2022. "Photographs of Danny Kaye in East New York, Brooklyn, where he grew up."</ref>
* [[Joe Kubert]] (1926–2012), Polish-born American comic book artist, art teacher and founder of The Kubert School<ref>[[Margalit Fox|Fox, Margalit]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/arts/design/joe-kubert-giant-of-comic-book-art-dies-at-85.html "Joe Kubert Dies at 85; Influential Comic-Book Artist"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 13, 2012. Accessed March 26, 2020. "Joseph Kubert was born on Sept. 18, 1926, in the shtetl of Yzeran (also known as Jezierzany), then in Poland and now in Ukraine. He came to the United States with his family as an infant and grew up in the East New York section of Brooklyn, where his father was a kosher butcher."</ref>
* [[Jeru the Damaja]] (born 1972), rapper
* [[Clara Lemlich]] (1886–1982), leader of the [[New York shirtwaist strike of 1909|Uprising of 20,000]], and the massive strike of shirtwaist workers in New York's garment industry in 1909.<ref>Moore, Judy. [https://www.thecharlottegazette.com/2022/01/28/opinion-a-garment-workers-fight-for-fairness/ "Opinion — A garment worker’s fight for fairness"], ''[[The Charlotte Gazette]]'', January 28, 2022. Accessed July 27, 2022. "Lemlich found time for a personal life marrying Joe Shavelson in 1913 bearing him three children Irving, Martha and Rita. The family relocated to East New York and later Brighton Beach and Lemlich continued her activist work."</ref>
* [[Yaakov Litzman]] (born 1948), Israeli politician and government minister<ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/yaakov-litzman Yaakov Litzman (1948-)], [[Jewish Virtual Library]]. Accessed March 26, 2020. "Litzman was born in 1948 to Polish survivors of the Holocaust, in a displaced persons camp in Germany. When he was two years old, the family immigrated to the East New York section of Brooklyn, & then to the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, where he grew up."</ref>
* [[Masta Killa]] (born 1969), rapper<ref>Brown, Preezy. [https://www.vibe.com/2019/07/wu-tang-clan-of-mics-and-men-things-learned "10 Things We Learned From Showtime's 'Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics And Men'"], ''[[Vibe (magazine)|Vibe]]'', July 4, 2019. Accessed March 26, 2020. "Of all of the Wu-Tang Clan members, the most mysterious is Masta Killa, one of the last artists to join the Wu family. A native of Brooklyn's East New York section, Masta Killa's love for music can be traced back to his youth, where his father introduced him to R&B."</ref>
* [[Uncle Murda]] (born 1980), rapper<ref>Wallace, Riley. [https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.45451/title.uncle-murda-wants-his-kids-listen-to-kendrick-lamar-j-cole-over-his-own-music "Uncle Murda Wants His Kids To Listen To Kendrick Lamar & J. Cole Over His Own Music"], [[HipHopDX]], December 13, 2017. "After a mounting buzz from a handful of high-profile singles and a new contract with 50 Cent's G-Unit Records to celebrate the end of 2016, East New York rapper Uncle Murda dropped his new mixtape, ''Don't Come Outside Vol. 1'' last month."</ref>
* [[Nelson Peltz]] (born 1942), billionaire businessman and investor<ref>Agnew, Harriet; and Fontanella-Khan, James. [https://www.ft.com/content/a5644e85-b0f7-443d-a949-1ff7d5b33374 "Nelson Peltz: the activist investor hot on Unilever's heels"],''[[Financial Times]]'', January 28, 2022. Accessed July 27, 2022. "'He always prefers to win you over through his enthusiasm and optimism,' says one friend. 'But as any true East New York kid, he won't shy from a fight if it is the only way forward.'"</ref>
* [[Darren Robinson (rapper)|Darren Robinson]] (1967–1995), founding member of [[The Fat Boys]] and pioneer of [[beatboxing]]<ref>Allah, Sha Be. [https://thesource.com/2020/12/10/today-in-hip-hop-history-the-fat-boys-human-beat-box-died-25-years-ago/ "TODAY IN HIP-HOP HISTORY: THE FAT BOYS’ HUMAN BEAT BOX DIED 25 YEARS AGO"], ''[[The Source (magazine)|The Source]]'', December 10, 2020. Accessed July 8, 2023. "Born Darren Robinson, but known affectionately as “Buffy” in his native East New York neighborhood, the Human Beat Box rose to fame in the early 80s performing with the Disco 3, who became known as the Fat Boys."</ref>
* [[Angelo Ruggiero]] (1940–1989), member of the [[Gambino crime family]] 
* [[Binyumen Schaechter]] (born 1963), composer, arranger, conductor, musical director and performer
* [[Willa Schneberg]] (born 1952), poet
* [[Gary Schwartz (art historian)|Gary Schwartz]] (born 1940), art historian<ref>{{cite web |title=Schwartz, Gary |url=https://arthistorians.info/schwartzg |date=February 21, 2018}}</ref>
* [[Allie Sherman]] (1923–2015), National Football League player and head coach<ref>Calderone, Joe; and Robbins, Tom.[https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-allie-sherman-profile/127889346/ "Allie Way Off"], ''[[New York Daily News]]'', December 15, 1996. Accessed July 8, 2023, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "Born: Feb. 10, 1923, In East New York section of Brooklyn, where he Is raised."</ref>
* [[Jerry Stiller]] (1927–2020), comedian and actor<ref>Schleier, Curt. [https://www.timesofisrael.com/jerry-stiller-was-a-mensch-he-could-act-with-the-best-of-them-too/ "Jerry Stiller was a mensch. He could act with the best of them, too"], ''[[The Times of Israel]]'', May 12, 2020. Accessed July 9, 2023. "It started on Jerome Street in the largely poor East New York section of Brooklyn — the first of a series of brief stops on the road to adulthood."</ref>
* [[Country Yossi]] (born 1949), Orthodox Jewish composer, singer, radio show host, author and magazine publisher<ref>Besser, Yisroel. [https://mishpacha.com/where-country-and-soul-music-merge/ "Where Country And Soul Music Merge"], ''[[Mishpacha]]'', April 14, 2010. Accessed July 27, 2022. "Despite his frequent appearances in print, radio, and music albums, there’s a lot that people don’t know about Country Yossi. In a candid conversation, the popular entertainer divulges how a kid from East New York became known as 'Country Yossi,' shares his memories of Rav Shlomo Freifeld, describes his original unintended foray into children’s entertainment, and reveals the secret behind the skyrocketing popularity of his radio show ('give away free prizes!')."</ref>

== See also ==
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