Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn
Coordinates: 40°34′41″N 73°56′39″W / 40.577977°N 73.94416°W
Manhattan Beach is a residential neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the south and east, by Sheepshead Bay on the north, and Brighton Beach to the west. Traditionally known as an Italian and Ashkenazi Jewish neighborhood, it is also home to a sizable community of Sephardi Jews and a large Russian Jewish immigrant presence. The area is part of Brooklyn Community Board 15,[1] which is represented by the Manhattan Beach Community Group, established in 1941, and the Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association, established in 2008. The community's street names, derived from England, are in alphabetical order from A to P (Amherst, Beaumont, Coleridge, Dover, Exeter, Falmouth, through to Pembroke, with Quentin and Reynolds on old maps), with the exception of Ocean Avenue. It is patrolled by the NYPD's 61st Precinct.
History
The area was named for the beach on the Atlantic Ocean situated on the eastern end of Coney Island. It was developed in the last quarter of the 19th century as a resort by Austin Corbin, later president of the Long Island Rail Road, for whom a street ("Corbin Place") was named.[2] An antisemite who served as the Secretary of the American Society for the Suppression of Jews, he barred Jews from the resort.[3][4]
From 1954 to 1959, the neighborhood was home to Manhattan Beach Air Force Station.[5]
Education
Kingsborough Community College, which is the part of the City University of New York, occupies the entire eastern tip of Manhattan Beach. The college's halls and departments are spread out through the area. The Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences is located on the campus of Kingsborough Community College.
Manhattan Beach is served by the New York City Department of Education. Manhattan Beach is zoned to PS 195 Manhattan Beach School for grades K–5 and PS 225, the Eileen E. Zaglin School for grades 6–8. In 1992, special education school PS 771K was opened at this building.
Private schools in the area include the Yeshiva of Manhattan Beach, a Jewish day school for grades K–8, and the Yeshiva Gedolah Bais Shimon of Manhattan Beach, which is a post-high school rabbinical program.
Transportation
Manhattan Beach is served by MTA Regional Bus Operations' B1, B49 bus routes. Both operate along Oriental Boulevard.
Notable residents
Notable current and former residents of Manhattan Beach include:
- Marv Albert, sportscaster
- Bruce J. Katz (b. 1959), Vice President at the Brookings Institution
- Jack Kirby (1917–1994), comic book artist, co-creator of Captain America
- Howard L. Lasher, former NY State Assemblyman
- Mell Lazarus, cartoonist
- Samuel Liebowitz, judge, as an attorney defended Al Capone and the Scottsboro boys
- William Modell (1921–2008), chairman of the Modell's Sporting Goods retail chain[6]
- Stephen J. Solarz, former U.S. Congressman
See also
- New York City portal
- Joseph P. Day, early land auctioneer
References
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- ↑ Brooklyn Community Boards, New York City. Accessed December 31, 2007
- ↑ The New York and Manhattan Beach Railway, LIRR History. Accessed June 4, 2007. "Immediately the whole purpose of the new RR was changed from freight to passenger, in order to service Corbin’s proposed line to the site of his immense Manhattan Beach Hotel that was being constructed on the east end of Coney Island."
- ↑ Marc R. Matrana, Lost Plantations of the South, Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2009, pp. 40–43
- ↑ Leonard Benardo, Jennifer Weiss, Street Cred, The New York Times, February 25, 2007
- ↑ "Manhattan Beach Army Housing Units Brooklyn, New York" (PDF). Environmental Research Division Argonne National Laboratory. November 1989. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
- ↑ Hevesi, Dennis (2008-02-15). "William D. Modell, Seller of Sporting Goods, Is Dead at 86". New York Times. Retrieved 2014-11-02..
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