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Our names are Eliane Aini, Albert Cohen, and Abraham Chabbott and we are all Macaulay Honors College freshmen at Brooklyn College. We have grown up in Brooklyn, New…
Angelica Goldberg, Boris Avrumov, and Josiah James are three Macaulay Honors students attending Brooklyn College. Their Macaulay seminar class theme this year was to understand the true meaning…
Hello, hello, ladies and gents! To kick off our Italians in Bensonhurst section of this Peopling website, we’ve got a relevant poem for ya by Vincenzo Ancona: Immigrants,…
Our names are Fred Gong, Ben Krasnysky, and Crystal Lim. We are currently freshmen in the Macaulay Honors program at Brooklyn College. We all currently reside within New…
Welkom, This section identifies some important formative moments in the history of Bensonhurst. The Dutch first colonized this area, so that explains the “Welkom.” This section was created…
Before they settled in Bensonhurst, Muslim immigrants were attracted to other areas of Brooklyn such as Bay Ridge, Atlantic Avenue, and Williamsburg. Muslim immigrants initially settled in these areas,…
New York is known for its diversity. It is here, that people from all over the world meet and converge in one place. Jimmy Carter once described New…
