Bensonhurst Gallery

A small club house on 20th Avenue and 72nd Street	Chinese residents doing Tai-Chi at Seth Low Park - Bay Parkway between 73rd and 75th Street	86th Street and Bay Parkway - Outdoor Markets - Under the D M Train Station at Bay Parkway	62nd Police Precinct - 1925 Bath Avenue
Bensonhurst's Chinese residents playing a game at Seth Low Park - Bay Parkway between 73rd and 75th Street	86th Street











		The Jewish Community House on Bay Parkway and 78th street.	One of the many condo complexes being built in Bensonhurst
Feast of Santa Rosalia, 18th Avenue	Feast of Santa Rosalia, 18th Avenue	Feast of Santa Rosalia, 18th Avenue	Feast of Santa Rosalia, 18th Avenue
Feast of Santa Rosalia, 18th Avenue	Feast of Santa Rosalia, 18th Avenue	Russian Supermarket

Children's Aid Society grounds, Cropsey and Eighteenth Avenues Photo taken by Berenice Abbott NYPL Digital Gallery	2442 Crospey Avenue Photo taken by Berenice Abbott NYPL Digital Gallery	Children's Aid Society Summer Home, Cropsey and Eighteenth Avenues Photo taken by Berenice Abbott NYPL Digital Gallery	Cropsey Avenue No. 1736 Photo taken by Berenice Abbott NYPL Digital Gallery
Belvedere Restaurant, Bay 16th Street and Cropsey Avenue Photo taken by Berenice Abbott NYPL Digital Gallery	Fort Lowry Hotel, 8868 17th Avenue Photo taken by Berenice Abbott NYPL Digital Gallery	Street Scene, 1927- Bay Parkaway and Bay 29th Street^[1]	Shirott's Pharmacy, 1904- Bay Parkway and 86th street^[2]
Talmud Torah Sons of Israel, ca. 1930s^[3]	West End & Bath Beach Railroad, ca. 1900^[4]	74th Street and 15 Avenue^[5]	Andrew G. Cropsey Residence, 1887^[6]
New Utrecht Reformed Church ^[7]	Real Estate Development^[8]	Street Scene, 1921. The West End and Bath Beach Railroad ran through this street.^[9]	Existing Zoning Map
A map of Bensonhurst's borders. It is bordered by 61st Street, McDonald Avenue, Gravesend Bay and 14th Avenue. It also includes Mapleton and New Utrecht.	Area chosen for rezoning.	Proposed Zoning Plan	Adopted Map

The first protest march over the death of Yusuf Hawkins in Bensonhurst, 1989	The block where Yusuf Hawkins was murdered.	In Memorium: Yusuf remembered in the Spike Lee film, Jungle Fever.	Yusuf Hawkins' Funeral Photo by Eli Reed Yusuf Hawkins Gallery on Slate
Spike Lee at Yusuf Hawkins' Funeral Photo by Eli Reed Yusuf Hawkins Gallery on Slate	Racial tensions flare Photo by Eli Reed Yusuf Hawkins Gallery on Slate	Yusuf Hawkins' Funeral Photo by Eli Reed Yusuf Hawkins Gallery on Slate	Mayor Koch at Hawkins' March through Bensonhurst Photo by Eli Reed Yusuf Hawkins Gallery on Slate
Racial tensions flare Photo by Eli Reed Yusuf Hawkins Gallery on Slate	Racial tensions flare Photo by Eli Reed Yusuf Hawkins Gallery on Slate	Yusuf Hawkins' Funeral Photo by Eli Reed Yusuf Hawkins Gallery on Slate	Louis Farrakhan embraces Hawkins' father Photo by Eli Reed Hawkins Gallery on Slate

↑ Merlis, Brian, and Oscar Israelowitz. Welcome Back to Brooklyn. Brooklyn: Israelowitz Publishers, 1993.
↑ Merlis, Brian, and Oscar Israelowitz. Welcome Back to Brooklyn. Brooklyn: Israelowitz Publishers, 1993.
↑ Merlis, Brian, and Oscar Israelowitz. Welcome Back to Brooklyn. Brooklyn: Israelowitz Publishers, 1993.
↑ Merlis, Brian, and Oscar Israelowitz. Welcome Back to Brooklyn. Brooklyn: Israelowitz Publishers, 1993.
↑ The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn. 'Ed'. Kenneth T. Jackson and John B. Manbeck . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
↑ The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn. 'Ed'. Kenneth T. Jackson and John B. Manbeck . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
↑ The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn. 'Ed'. Kenneth T. Jackson and John B. Manbeck . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
↑ Merlis, Brian, and Oscar Israelowitz. Welcome Back to Brooklyn. Brooklyn: Israelowitz Publishers, 1993.
↑ Merlis, Brian, and Oscar Israelowitz. Welcome Back to Brooklyn. Brooklyn: Israelowitz Publishers, 1993.

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