Midwood is a neighborhood in the south-central part of the New York City area of ​​Brooklyn. This is within Community District 14. The State Senate District, based on reapportionment based on the 2010 US Census, is the 17th.
It is bordered on the north by the Bay Ridge Branch branch just above Avenue I and the Brooklyn City campus at City University of New York, and south by Avenue P and Kings Highway. The eastern border consists of parts of Nostrand Avenue, Flatbush Avenue, and Coney Island Avenue; parts of McDonald Avenue and Ocean Parkway mark the western border.
This neighborhood is served by the New York City Fire Department from a station on East 14th Street 276th Engine housing, Ladder 156 and Battalion Chief 33.
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History
The name, Midwood, comes from the Middle Dutch word Midwout (middle forest: Modern Netherlands: Midwoud), the name of the New Dutch settlers called a dense forest area in the middle between Boswyck (Bushwick) and Breuckelen (Brooklyn ). Jan Snedeker, Jan Stryker, and Tomys Swartwout were requested from the Director General of Stuyvesant the right to settle together at the level of the desert area ( vlacke bosch , flat bushes), adjacent to the remote farms in Breukelen and Nieuw Amersfoort. Through the Swartwout proposal, the settlement was called Midwout or Midwolde villages. In April 1655, Stuyvesant and the New Dutch Council appointed Swartwout a schepen (magistrate), to serve with Snedeker and Adriaen Hegeman as Court of Midwout.
Later, it became part of the old Flatbush, nestled between the towns of Gravesend and the Flatlands.
The settlement was started by the Dutch in 1652; they then gave way to England, which conquered it in 1664, but the area remained rural and undeveloped for the most part until its annexation to Brooklyn City in the 1890s. It became more developed in the 1920s when middle-class housing tractors and large apartment buildings were built.
Many Midwood residents moved to the suburbs in the 1970s, and their environmental and commercial districts declined. Withdrawn by its quiet middle-class atmosphere, new residents began to flow into Midwood during the 1980s; many of whom are immigrants who have just landed from around the world. The largest group came from the Soviet Union, but large numbers also came from Jamaica, Haiti, Guyana, Mexico and elsewhere in South America; from Ireland, Italy, Poland, the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), and elsewhere in Eastern Europe; and from Greece, Turkey, Israel, Syria, Persian Gulf countries, Iran, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, China, and Korea. In a short time, Midwood changed, from a predominantly Jewish neighborhood with a handful of Irish-Americans and German-Americans, to a remarkable piece of polyglot from the Brooklyn district.
Many residents refer to Midwood as "Flatbush," or, incorrectly, as "part of the Flatbush", an older and more established neighborhood and a former settlement, which in the 19th century included modern Midwood. The use of Flatbush means Midwood dates to a period when the environment was first formed, and is known as South Greenfield. This use is very common among Orthodox Jews.
Many also consider the immediate surroundings of Fiske Terrace/Midwood Gardens to be part of Midwood, but, as in many cities, the Brooklyn neighborhood boundary is somewhat liquid and undefined.
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Demographics
Based on data from the US Census 2010, Midwood population was 52,835, a decrease of 2,605 (4.7%) from 55,440 counted in 2000. Covering an area of ​​822.04 hectares (332.67 ha), the neighborhood has a population density of 64.3 per acre (41,200/sq., mi; 15,900/km 2 ).
Racial makeup is 76.6% (40,482) White, 4.7% (2,508) African Americans, 0.1% (46) Native Americans, 10.4% (5.517) Asian, 0.0% (9) The Pacific Islands, 0.3% (140) of the other races, and 1.0% (549) of two or more races. Hispanic or Latin of any race is 6.8% (3,584) of the population.
Shopping
The main shopping streets in this area are Kings Highway, Avenue J, Avenue M, Flatbush Avenue, Nostrand Avenue, and Coney Island Avenue.
Kings Highway
In the 1950s to the 1970s, Kings Highway had a Cafeteria at Dubrow, a classic cafeteria where holes would be punctured with customer print tickets, which would cost the meal. It is a popular place to eat and socialize. In his bid for the White House, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy held a massive campaign outside Dubff's Cafeteria. The large crowd of people turned out to hear these popular political icons talking, stretching for blocks in all directions. Years later, his senator Robert F. Kennedy ("Bobby") held a similar campaign there to run for President, with an equally large audience. The community has long been known as a Democrat camp.
In addition, "Levine's" is the king of the trade suit bar mitzvah, and "Jimmy" serves high fashion customers.
Kings Highway is home to the now famous Eddie Electronic Empire. The first Crazy Eddie Original Shop is located at Kings Hwy, then moved to a larger place south of Kings Highway on Coney Island Avenue.
The Brooklyn Public Library branch can be found on the east side of Ocean Avenue just south of the Kings Highway.
There are four theaters on Kings Highway, "Kingsway", Jewel and "Avalon" (which closed in 1982). & amp; Triangle Theater, located on Quentin Street and Jocye Kilmer Park. Visitors to the Kings Highway are entertained by the colorful holiday-style lights strung over the road and displaying the bright gold Crown at some intersections.
In the fall of 2008, NYCDOT plans to implement an experimental congestion parking plan at Kings Highway Business District, which will raise the parking meter rate from 75 cents to $ 2.50 per hour. Specific roads are not specified.
Kings Highway is currently anchored by several chain stores, such as Rite-Aid, Petland Discount, and TJ Maxx, and several ethnic food stores. Unique businesses include Amazon Caffe (kosher milk), Kings Games (largest game center in New York City), some high fashion outlets, jewelry stores, and sushi restaurants.
Nostrand Avenue
In the 1960s and early 1970s, Nostrand Avenue between Avenues M and N was considered one of the best streets in New York to shop by New York magazine. The street is known for its fashionable boutiques such as "Edna Nelkin's Jewelry," America's best children's clothing boutique, "Greenstone's" (now located in Columbus and Madison Avenues in Manhattan), "Burton's", "Shirtland", and "The Shoe Box ". When retailers retired, the road changed and became famous for its car showroom, including Plaza Honda. The US Postal Service Facility (Postal Code 11210) can be found on Nostrand Avenue between Road I and J.
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Avenue M, the heart of Midwood, is a central location for halal food and butchers. While in the past it was home to Cookie's, one of Brooklyn's most famous restaurants and hang-outs (also popular with NBC studio staff), today there are no fewer than 9 kosher restaurants and 3 halal bakeries. From the 1920s to the 1940s, "Dorman Square Restaurant" was popular among Vitagraph studio employees, and played a role in one or two Vitagraph films. One of Brooklyn's most legendary Italian restaurants, "Restaurant Bonaparte", also served actors and actresses working on Avenue M at NBC studios at the time. The Bonaparte restaurant is known as "Three Musketeers". It also has a nice fountain at its lobby door, full of customer coins. The Avenue has an elevated subway station. Until the 1970s, Avenue M had its own cinema, The Century "Elm" (later branch of Emigrant Savings Bank, now a branch of Apple Bank for Savings). Towards the end of June each year, Midwood Development Corporation hosts the popular Midwood Mardi Gras Street Fair along The Avenue, from East 12th St. to Ocean Avenue. Buyers can find muni-meter city parking lot on East 17th Street on Chestnut Ave. north of Avenue M. Many retail businesses are closed on Jewish Sabbaths and High Holy Days.
Avenue J is a low-cost commercial street, with many halal restaurants, delis, pizzerias, and butchers.
Coney Island Avenue
At Coney Island Avenue in Midwood, especially between Avenue H and Avenue P, there are Midwood Station Post US stations (Postcode 11230), The "Kent Triplex Movie Theater", and other retailers.
Between Avenue O and Quentin Road is a Turkish restaurant and a hookah bar.
On the corner of Avenue L and Coney Island Avenue, what is believed to be the largest halal supermarket in the United States, Pomegranate, opened in August 2008.
Garden
The park consists of Kolbert Park and Rachel Haber Cohen Playground as well as adjacent basketball and basketball courts, near Edward R. Murrow High School, and Brooklyn College and Midwood High School playgrounds and games. Local Yeshiva children often play basketball during lunch break at Kolbert Park. Kolbert is also very popular with many senior Russian men who can be seen heavily involved in daily board games such as chess. Old and past residents alike still refer to Kolbert Park as "Avenue L Park."
Other parks are "Friends Field" on East Second Street and Avenue L. The park is popular with Yeshiva kids who play baseball on Friday afternoons. "Friends Field" features Baseball Diamonds and Tennis Courts. Just across from Friends Field with McDonald Avenue is Erasmus Hall High School Football Field (Closed for public when not in use). The vast and spacious Midwood High School grounds (East 16th-17th Street on Avenues K-L) have handball fields, tennis courts, runners tracks, and fields used for football, rugby and soccer. Students from nearby Edward R. Murrow High School also use the field during school hours.
There are two common "rest" pedestrian spots in the community. The first is the Corporal Wiltshire Square, named Honor of Corporal Clifford T. Wiltshire, located at the junction of Ocean Avenue where it joins Avenue P and Kings Highway. The other is Sgt. Joyce Kilmer Triangle, located at the junction of Kings Highway and Quentin Road (E. 12th-13th Streets), is so named in honor of American journalist and poet Sgt. Joyce Kilmer (1866-1918). It is the smallest park in New York City, occupying 0.001 hectare (0.00040 ha) of land.
Religious group
Midwood is a diverse ethnic and multi-religious environment; However, this environment is dominated by Jews.
Judaism
In the 1980s and 1990s, a wave of Orthodox Jews moved into the area from Borough Park, attracted by large houses in Midwood and tree-lined streets. Today, in addition to European Orthodox Jews, this area is home to a growing population of Sephardic. Along the Kings Highway from Coney Island to McDonald Avenues there are many Middle Eastern restaurants and take-out food stores.
East Midwood Jewish Center, a Conservative synagogue, was founded in 1924. The building, located on Ocean Avenue, is a Renaissance building of 1929 with a capacity of 950 in the main sanctuary. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. The Kingsway Jewish Center is a historic synagogue from the 1950s on Nostrand Avenue. It's listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
There are several branches of Touro College there, a college that began in 1970. Midwood is also home to several major orthodox synagogues, including the Young Midwoods of Israel, Agudas Yisroel Bais Binyomin from Avenue L, the Talmud Torah Congregation of Flatbush, known minyan factories as Landau Shul (offering minyanim every 15 minutes on weekdays), Rabbi Avraham Schorr synagogue, known as Khal Tiferes Yaakov on East 15th Street and Avenue L, Bostoner rebbe on Avenue J, Steinwurtzels, Young Israel of Avenue J, Agudah Midwood, and some Syrian Orthodox synagogues. An out-of-home synagogue, called shtiebelach, is also common.
In November 2009, the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, the beneficiary agency of the New York Federation-UJA, partnered with Masbia to open a public kitchen on Coney Island Avenue.
On November 12, 2011, four cars were burned, and the Ku Klux Klan iconography, swastika, and other hate symbols painted spray on the bench and other items. The following day, state lawmaker Dov Hikind and state Sen. Eric Adams joined a protest march against hatred crime.
Other religions
Parish St. Brendan and Our Lady of Christian Help are two sessions of the Roman Catholic Church located in Midwood. The Three Orthodox Greek Hierarchy Churches serve the Greeks from the community. Episcopal Church of the Epiphany also serves the community.
The area around Newkirk Avenue has one of the largest mosques in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Muslim Community Center, also known as Makki Masjid.
East Midwood
East of Ocean Avenue, this community is also known as "East Midwood" or "Nottingham". The volunteer ambulance service that serves Midwood is Flatbush Hatzoloh. The closest hospitals are New York Presbyterian Community Hospital and Mount Sinai, both on the Kings Highway. Both are certified "9-1-1 FDNY-EMS" receiving emergency facilities. Today many homes in the community are valued at more than $ 500,000, with over a million dollars. One of Brooklyn's last farms is located on the premises of an apartment complex on 1279 East 17th St. (just north of Ave. M) until it collapsed in the mid-1960s. The elm tree is the official tree of the community, and a local street named Elm Avenue as a tribute to it.
Education
Transportation
This area is served by BMT Brighton Line New York City line ( B and Q trains), IND Culver Line (train F ), and IRT line Nostrand Avenue Line ( 2 and 5 ).
The New York City Transit MTA route serves the public including local buses B2, B6, B7, B9, B11, B31, B41, B44, B49, B68, B82 and Bus Service Bus B44 SBS. The route of MTA Bus Company includes local bus B100, B103 and BM2 bus, BM3, BM4 express.
In popular culture
Movies
Midwood has long played a role in film and television production. The film industry established itself in the neighborhood in 1907, when the Vitagraph company occupied the studio on 1277 East 14 near Avenue M. Scenes from films such as "Hey Pop" and "Buzzin 'Around," starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, filmed on the road - walk in Midwood. Warner Bros bought the studio in 1920, used it for short subjects, and moved studio operations to Hollywood in 1939. A huge chimney under the name Vitagraph still exists on the property, visible from the BMT Brighton Line, like two brick walls from the original studio. Many employees of Vitagraph live in the community.
The Brooklyn Historical Society and the Museum of the Moving Image (Astoria, New York) have collections at The Vitagraph Studios. A long-term citizen now has a small but "personal" collection (and a wealth of history) at Vitagraph Studios. Old antique air photos of the Vitagraph complex (and its streets) are hanging today on the wall at Midwood Development Corporation's office.
The Vitagraph Studios were later featured in the New York Times (2007) Articles, and on PBS, WNET-13 Special TV 'A Walk Through Brooklyn,' hosted by David Hartman and historian Barry Lewis. Old historic photos from the studio show that some of them are also on the subway line of Brighton line where High School Edward R. Murrow is now standing.
After Warner Bros. emptied the ground (in the late 1960s-early 1970s), Yeshiva University bought it for Brooklyn Torah Academy, a Brooklyn branch of their high school. The Shulamith school bought the property a few years later, when it combined BTA into Manhattan Torah Academy. Until 2015, the building is home to Shulamith Yeshiva School for Girls, who moved to Manhattan Beach. Today, many people in the community do not know that buildings and properties Shulamith School has been a movie studio in its heyday.
The "Leading Male" men's clothing store, once located on the corner of Kings Highway and East 12th Street, is the source for disco clothing that John Travolta and other cast members wear in Saturday Night Fever movies. A duplicate of the white suit Travolta had worn in the film at the time was displayed in one of the display windows.
Television
NBC Studios
In 1952, NBC Television bought part of Vitagraph Studios, later known as NBC Brooklyn. Studio 1 is along Locust Avenue. A new large studio known as Color Studio 2 is located at 1268 East 14th Street, in the northwest corner of its intersection with the Avenue M. Program including The Perry Como Variety Show, TV adaptation of Broadway Peter Pan with Mary Martin, The Sammy Davis, Jr. Variety Show , the night version of the Tic Tac Dough quiz show, Singing With Mitch Miller (And "Sing-Along Gang") (1961-64) which featured the young singer then named Leslie Uggams, who years later became famous for his role in the historical TV epic Roots , all recorded there for later broadcasts. Old NBC press releases indicate that the two earliest performances from there (both considered the beginning of NBC "Great Specials") are The Esther Williams Aqua Special (29 October 1956), and Satins & ; Spurs (10/12/1954). The same Brooklyn studio used in recent decades to broadcast the soap opera Another World (1964-99), Another World spin-off "soap opera Somerset i> (1971-76), sitcom The Cosby Show, and three episodes of 1975 Saturday Night Live . There is also NBC News NASA Space Mission Mission Special recorded here, a short-lived mystery detective drama, and a weekly circus show (two later for other networks). Bill Cosby and the crew after a period of time relocate the show to their new home at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens. The "second" NBC Cosby Show followed (starring Madeline Kahn, especially from Mel Brooks comedy hit Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein) was also recorded at Kaufman Astoria Studios.
In 1965-1966, the studios also housed Hullabaloo, a popular weekly NBC mainstream musical event, produced by Gary Smith and Dwight Hemion (Smith famous for producing TV specials Barbra Streisand). Hullabaloo first aired on NBC on the night of December 1, 1965, and the final episode aired on 4/11/66. The program features bands at the top of other celebrity charts, singers and entertainers in periods such as Sonny & amp; Cher and Tina Sinatra, and many artists from the British Invasion, such as The Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits, The Dave Clark Five, Petula Clark, Marianne Faithfull, The Moody Blues, and Donovan. It first came from NBC Studios in Burbank, California, and its premiere was hosted by Jack Jones. After a short period of time the program was moved east to NBC Color Studio 2 in Midwood. During New York's heyday, several episodes were also recorded at NBC's headquarters studio at Rockefeller Center. Brian Epstein, the manager of The Beatles, also organizes the Hullabaloo program from London. Neither the Beatles nor Elvis Presley was ever a guest or host of the above mentioned events.
Sammy Davis Show, Jr. recorded in the much smaller Studio 1 located along Locust Ave. The audience entrance is in the northernmost part of East 13, opposite a beautiful outdoor storage area. In the early 1970s, the TV show NBC TV Kraft Music Hall was recorded in Studio 2. Ed McMahon, country music star Eddy Arnold, and John Davidson often hosted. Guests included Johnny Cash, Simon & amp; Garfunkel, Woody Allen, Wayne Newton, Bill Dana, Alan King, Bobby Darin, Dionne Warwick, sister Dee Dee Warwick, Mitzi Gaynor, Roy Rogers and his wife Dale Evans, and many others. Desi Arnaz hosted one episode. Her ex-wife/TV comedian icon Lucille Ball and her sons specifically flew from Hollywood to cheer on her, in this case her return to TV. An impressive episode of the Kraft Music Hall program was hosted by comedian Don Rickles, featuring it walking from Brighton Line subway tied to Coney Island on Avenue M station, then talking about old Brooklyn memories, game of the day small street streets while walking down the street, then play the game "Kick-the-Can" and the New York style stickball, all actually recorded on location on East 15th Street between Avenue M and the old Vitagraph Studios building on Chestnut Avenue.
Many of the famous events (with the exception of Mitch Miller) have direct studio goers for both actual practice and/or event recording. Often NBC Guest Relations staff can be found standing on the street outside the studio offering free tickets for rehearsals and/or the actual recording of the 1960s program, and sometimes even The Cosby Show. The only exceptions to it are the short tasks of Saturday Night Live in the studio (which has been filled up to capacity) as well as the hostess's "big name" or host footprint (eg The Rolling Stones or Desi Arnaz, especially with attendance Lucille Ball in the studio to cheer Arnaz). NBC Guest Relations operated charter buses to/from their Rockefeller Center headquarters to Brooklyn studios for audiences beginning in the 1960s, so they did not have to travel by car or subway. They also do it for The Cosby Show . Fans who know always can be found outside the entrance of the studio waiting to welcome their favorite celebrities, many of them in turn are happy to stop and chat, sign autographs, pose for photos, all without the hassle of the present. paparazzi control. From the 1950s to the early years of the Cosby Show, the presence of NBC Brooklyn studios in Midwood basically transformed the Avenue M community into Brooklyn versions of Brooklyn and Hollywood. The beautiful memories of many "A-List" celebrities who have appeared in former NBC Studios and are walking the local streets still exist today. Now, many in the community, and visitors alike, do not even know that a television production studio is on site, or that the adjacent Shulamith School property is now a major early silent film studio. Some of the old classic episodes of Perry Como , Hullabaloo
NBC sold the studio in 2000. The facility became JC Studios. CBS soap opera When The World Turns
When NBC Brooklyn Color Studio 2 was dedicated in September 1954, the studio was then said to be the largest color TV production studio in the world, rivaling Pinewood Studios in west London. According to Film Office, Theater & amp; NYC Major Broadcasting, this building consists of Stage 1, which is 11,200 feet (163 'ÃÆ'â € "70', w/a 24-foot (7.3 m) ceiling height), and Phase 2 which is 9,700 sq ft (130 'ÃÆ'â € "75', with a ceiling height of 38'-10".There are 31 dressing rooms, two control rooms, hair, dressing and makeup area, and one editing room.NOTIVE logo signs NBC 'N' seen placed on East 13th and 14th Street the top of the big Red Brick Studio 2 Building on Avenue M until The Cosby Show year.For the dismay of many of the old residents, both were lowered when NBC vacated the premises, before the studio sold to JC Studios.
In 2014, JC Studios is closed. In June 2015, OHEL's Children's and Family Care Homes began building offices at former Studio 1 on Locust Avenue, part of the original Vitagraph Studio. Studio 2, built by NBC, will be a standalone storage facility.
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The nearest high school near Edward R. Murrow offers his student classes in television production and has a local public-access television program produced by students in BCAT called TERM Many of his former students are currently employed in some form. television production, including news on WNBC and Fox 5 WNYW.
Among movies and TV shows that have been filmed in Midwood are:
- AmÃÆ' Â © rica (1972) - TV series
- The Godfather (1972)
- The Lords of Flatbush (1974) The scenes were filmed at James Madison High School and along Bedford Avenue, Avenue P, Quentin Road and Kings Highway.
- Hair (1979) While others were imprisoned, George visited his mother at his home from Avenue J, at 1014 E. 14th St.
- Rose Purple Cairo (1985) Directed by Woody Allen and starring Mia Farrow and Jeff Daniels, inside the Kent Theater on Coney Island Avenue.
- The Cosby Show (198-) Avenue L driveway, and a school board name from SMA E.R. Murrow, various episodes.
- Seinfeld , Episode 134 - "The Abstinence" (11/21/96) Avenue ER Murrow High School entrance, school name marks changed to "ER Murrow Jr. High School"
- Viewing Only (1999)
- The Squid and the Whale (2005)
It is also mentioned in the quote "Midwood, Brooklyn, A Community From Where Large Television Entertainment Has Been Prepared... from Perry Como to the Hip Hipabaloo 60s to 'The Cosby Show' to CBS during the day 'As The World Turns'!"
Famous citizen
Notable people who grew up in, previously lived in, or attended or graduated from school in Midwood include:
References
Source
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