Steven Vincent "Steve" Buscemi is an American actor, writer, and film director. Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Dorothy, a homemaker for Howard Johnson, and John Buscemi, a sanitation worker and Korean War veteran, Steve grew up in a working-class family...

There are not many names that have become fundamental in the musical world. One such person grew up in Sheepshead Bay, a cute neighborhood in Brooklyn. Buddy Rich is a name well-known to millions of Americans and musicians. His career was...

In 1997, as he celebrated the 50th anniversary of his illustrious career, Vic Damone released a new double CD with OnQ Records titled Greatest Love Songs of the Century. Another highlight of this milestone year was his nationwide concert tour, which...

There have been many unpleasant stories about Brooklyn. At one time, it was the most criminal borough in New York. Brooklyn was able to rehabilitate itself by developing creative places but remained a low-budget borough. Brooklyn has appeared in many films and...

Anne Hathaway is a multi-award-winning American actress, singer, and producer. She has starred in a number of highly popular films, including "The Princess Diaries," "The Devil Wears Prada," and "Becoming Jane." Born to an actress mother, Anne was exposed to the...

Actor and director Ben Stiller has created some of the most hilarious films of his time, including There's Something About Mary, Zoolander, and Meet the Parents. Born to comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, he grew up in Brooklyn. Early in...

The range of festivals can vary greatly, starting from art exhibitions to gastronomic feasts. A beer festival is a common event. The most famous one in the world is Oktoberfest. In 2012, Brooklyn founded its own beer festival. Find out more at...

Brooklyn usually celebrates Christmas with fun and joy. Huge Christmas trees are installed here. During this period, you can see a lot of interesting things in the borough, such as a performance of holiday classics. In addition, you can buy gifts...

Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough. It has nearly 2.6 million residents and was a city until 1898. It was settled by Dutch immigrants in the 1600s and named Breuckelen. The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883 gave...

Job searching can be a stressful and exhausting process. Switching from one tab to another or making endless phone calls to potential employers is hardly enjoyable. Sometimes, the effort needed to secure a job may seem overwhelming. However, Brooklyn hosts job fairs—a...

In ancient times, an amazing feast of the Our Lady of Mount Carmel was born in Italy. During the celebration, Italians built a 72-foot tower in honor of the Virgin Mary, also referred to as Giglio. One day, Italians imported this...

Festivals are an important part of many cultures. Although they first appeared in England in the 18th century, South America became the place where festivals grew strong. When arriving in Brooklyn, immigrants introduced various cultural traditions and festivals there. One of the...

The final term as Brooklyn's District Attorney was not an easy one for Charles "Joe" Hynes. It wasn't easy for the borough, either, as it left behind a number of questions that might not be answered for years to come. Read...

John Arbuckle was one of the wealthiest men in Brooklyn. Furthermore, according to his contemporaries, he was quite generous: he and his wife engaged in many important civic initiatives, and they even launched some of their own. For example, Arbuckle converted...

Growing up in Brooklyn's urban area, Jackie Gleason frequently attended vaudeville shows. This passion drove him to pursue a career on the stage. In 1925, Jackie's father abandoned the family when the boy was ten years old, so he dropped out...

Success can take various forms. Incredible heights can be achieved in any field. However, the secret to success remains the same: hard work. Richard Axel proved this to be true. He is known in history as a successful neurobiologist from Brooklyn....

As we know, a fraudster is a person who aims to deceive others, usually in order to obtain financial gain. First, fraudsters gain people's trust, and then convince them to believe in something that is not real. One such person was...

In the "Roaring Twenties," Al Capone ruled over a vast criminal empire in the Windy City—a domain built on gambling, prostitution, bootlegging, bribery, drug trafficking, robbery, extortion, and murder. This impressive resume was fitting for Chicago, the third-largest city in the...

Bruce Cutler, a lawyer with a very difficult personality, who turned John Gotti, the boss of the New York mafia, into the Teflon Don. After five years, during which there were three trials against Gotti, who was accused of racketeering, assault,...

Brooklyn 11223 is an American reality television series that premiered on Oxygen in March 2012. The show follows the lives of a group of twelve Italian-American men and women in their mid-twenties who live in the Bay Ridge neighbourhood of Brooklyn....

The Naked Brothers Band is an American musical comedy television show created by Polly Draper for the Nickelodeon cable channel, depicting the daily lives of Draper's sons, who front a fictional world-famous rock band. The show is a mockumentary. The plot...

In the 19th century, Brooklyn did not yet have movie theaters in the modern sense of the word. The first movie theaters as such appeared only in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But one distinctive feature of Brooklyn was...

Brooklyn Nine-Nine was created by Dan Goor and Michael Schur. It premiered in 2013 on Fox. The series is about detectives at the 100% fictional 99th Precinct in Brooklyn. After Fox canceled the comedy series about the police in 2018, which,...

No Hollywood film of any significance has depicted the construction of the Berlin Wall until Bridge of Spies. Instead, the film's production designer, Adam Stockhausen, used real footage of the construction work to truthfully depict the devastating reality of war-torn East...