Between 1943 and 1970, Brownsville went from being a "white, predominantly Jewish, working- class neighborhood" of 100,000 to being a 75% black/20% Puerto Rican neighborhood of 70,000. This ...
A $160 million cash infusion will allow the city to demolish and completely reconstruct the decades-old Brownsville Recreation Center. The City Council and Mayor Eric Adams wrote the funding into the ...