New York - Brooklyn (Part.2)
Brooklyn has played a major role in various aspects of American culture including literature, cinema and theater. It has the world-renowned Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the second largest public art collection in the United States, housed in the Brooklyn Museum.
Two films of Spike Lee, She's Gotta Have It and Do The Right Thing were shot in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
The Brooklyn Museum, opened in 1897, is the nation's second-largest public art museum. It has in its permanent collection more than 1.5 million objects, from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art. The Brooklyn Children's Museum, the world's first museum dedicated to children, opened in December 1899. The only such New York State institution accredited by the American Association of Museums, it is one of the few globally to have a permanent collection -- over 30,000 cultural objects and natural history specimens.
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) includes a 2,109-seat opera house, a 874-seat theater, and the art house BAM Rose Cinemas. Bargemusic and St. Ann's Warehouse are located on the other side of Downtown Brooklyn in the DUMBO arts district. Brooklyn Technical High School has the second-largest auditorium in New York City (after Radio City Music Hall), with a seating capacity of over 3,000.
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Les Néerlandais sont les premiers Européens à coloniser la région occidentale de Long Island, qui était jusqu'alors habitée par la tribu amérindienne Carnasie. Ils y établissent en 1634 Midwout (Midwood). Ils achètent aux Mohawks le territoire qui s'étend sur les quartiers actuels de Gowanus, Red Hook, du Brooklyn Navy Yard et de Bushwick. Le Village de Breuckelen (du nom de la ville de Breukelen aux Pays-Bas) est autorisé par la Compagnie néerlandaise des Indes occidentales en 1646 et devient ainsi la première municipalité de la Nouvelle-Néerlande.
Les Néerlandais perdent le village lors de la conquête britannique de leur colonie en 1664. En 1683 les Britanniques réorganisent la Province de New York en douze comtés eux-mêmes subdivisés en villes; le nom de celui de Breuckelen évolue : de Brockland, Brocklin, puis Brookline, il finit par devenir Brooklyn. Brooklyn reprend le découpage administratif du comté de Kings. Ce nom avait été attribué en l'honneur du roi Charles II d'Angleterre.
Le 27 août 1776 s'y déroule la bataille de Brooklyn (dite aussi bataille de Long Island), lors de la guerre d'indépendance.
En 1883, le pont de Brooklyn est achevé, ce qui facilite le voyage entre la ville et Manhattan. La création de lignes de métro contribue également à la croissance de Brooklyn à la fin du XIXe siècle, qui annexe les autres bourgs et villages du Comté de Kings et finit par fusionner avec celui-ci.
En 1894, les résidents de Brooklyn votent à une faible majorité pour se joindre à Manhattan, au Bronx, au Queens et à Richmond (plus tard Staten Island) pour devenir un des cinq arrondissements de la ville moderne de New York. Ce référendum a pris effet en 1898. Le comté de Kings a conservé son statut comme l'un des comtés État de New York.
Ce quartier de la Big Apple connaît depuis le début du XXIe siècle un nouveau dynamisme qui se remarque notamment par l'essor des quartiers d'affaires de Greenpoint et Williamsburg. Plusieurs entreprises installent des bureaux de l'autre côté de l'East River.
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Brooklyn Barge Music
Free afternoon shows on the barge stop by and support these wonderful musicians.August 2012
Jennifer Choi talks to Tarisio
Hailed by Time Out New York as one of New York's most reliably adventurous performers, violinist Jennifer Choi has charted a career that breaks through the conventional boundaries of solo violin, chamber music, and the art of creative improvisation. Internationally recognized as a performer with brilliance and command, (The New York Times), a leading New York new-music violinist that plays it with fiery authority (Boston Globe), and with intense, spectacularly virtuosic play (The Seattle Weekly), Jennifer brings her strong classical background and dedication to whatever work she decides to take on from Bach to Zorn and back.
Ms. Choi is regularly sighted in solo performances of rare works that stretch the limits of violin playing often calling for extended techniques, improvisation, and the use of electronics. In 2006 she received a grant from the New York State Music Fund for the premiere and performances of Holding Fast for violin and video written for her by Randall Woolf. She also gave the world premiere of John Zorn's solo violin work, Goetia at the Guggenheim Museum, as well as the U.S. premieres of Jacob ter Veldhuis Capriccio and Helmut Lachenmann's Toccatina. She can be heard on over a dozen albums for TZADIK record label in compositions by new music icons such as John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Wadada Leo Smith, and the Susie Ibarra Trio, and on her debut solo album, VIOLECTRICA- Works for Solo Violin and Electronics.
A prominent chamber musician, Jennifer was former violinist of the Miró String Quartet. With her involvement, the group won Grand Prize at the 1996 Fischoff and Coleman chamber music competitions. Since then, she has performed for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Ravinia Festival, Barge Music, Caramoor Music, and other chamber music series across the United States. She has been also been a member of Fireworks Ensemble and the Sirius String Quartet. Currently, Jennifer is the violinist of Classical Jam, the Either/Or Ensemble, the Susie Ibarra Quartet, Anti-Depressant Duo with Kathleen Supové and the newest member of ETHEL.
She has also performed worldwide in venues like the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., Alice Tully Hall in New York City, the RAI National Radio in Rome, the Mozartsalle in Vienna, and gave her debut recital in Carnegie Hall in April 2000 as Winner of the Artists International Competition. As a soloist Ms. Choi has recently performed the Brahms, Bach, Sibelius, and Beethoven concertos among others. During the 2009-2010 season, she served as Concertmaster for Lincoln Center's National touring production of Roger's and Hammerstein's South Pacific.
July 2013 | Arts in the City
• Host Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson tells us about Exploring The Arts, a unique program offering arts education to some of the city's high school students.
• Pat Collins looks at some of the fabulous ladies on Broadway;
• Carol Anne Riddell visits MIST Harlem...a new cultural center in Harlem offering everything from movies to music;
• We follow harpist Emily Hopkins as she travels around the city, and underground, entertaining people;
• We take a special look at Red Hook Brooklyn's lively arts scene;
• Summer in the city is enhanced with music...on a barge sitting right in the water in Brooklyn and we'll take you there;
• Plus some of the best summer reads for the beach or pool.
• And a visit to the High Line
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00:02:25 1 Toponymy
00:03:30 2 History
00:04:20 2.1 Colonial era
00:04:29 2.1.1 Six Dutch towns
00:06:41 2.1.2 Six townships in an English province
00:08:06 2.1.3 Revolutionary War
00:10:12 2.2 Post-colonial era
00:10:21 2.2.1 Urbanization
00:14:26 2.2.2 Civil War
00:15:33 2.2.3 Twin city
00:18:43 2.2.3.1 Mayors of the City of Brooklyn
00:19:15 2.3 New York City borough
00:20:32 3 Geography
00:22:08 3.1 Boroughscape
00:22:16 3.2 Climate
00:23:11 4 Demographics
00:24:06 4.1 2010 Census
00:25:09 4.2 2012 estimates
00:28:09 4.3 Languages
00:30:07 5 Neighborhoods
00:31:06 5.1 Community diversity
00:31:47 5.1.1 Jewish American
00:32:44 5.1.2 Chinese American
00:33:35 5.1.3 Caribbean and African American
00:34:51 5.1.4 Latino American
00:35:57 5.1.5 Russian and Ukrainian American
00:36:39 5.1.6 Polish American
00:37:01 5.1.7 Italian American
00:37:27 5.1.8 Muslim American
00:38:26 5.1.9 Irish American
00:39:17 5.1.10 Greek American
00:39:45 5.1.11 Artists-in-residence
00:40:30 6 Government and politics
00:43:53 6.1 Federal representation
00:46:44 7 Economy
00:50:24 8 Culture
00:50:55 8.1 Cultural venues
00:52:24 8.2 Media
00:52:32 8.2.1 Local periodicals
00:54:03 8.2.2 Ethnic press
00:55:15 8.2.3 Television
00:55:36 8.3 Events
00:56:14 9 Parks and other attractions
00:59:31 9.1 Sports
01:02:44 9.1.1 Recreational Fishing
01:03:20 10 Transportation
01:03:29 10.1 Public transport
01:05:58 10.2 Roadways
01:08:58 10.3 Waterways
01:10:53 11 Education
01:12:00 11.1 Higher education
01:12:09 11.1.1 Public colleges
01:14:47 11.1.2 Private colleges
01:17:05 11.1.3 Community colleges
01:17:22 12 Brooklyn Public Library
01:18:44 13 Partnerships with districts of foreign cities
01:19:19 14 Hospitals and healthcare
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Brooklyn () is the most populous borough of New York City, with an estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, it borders the borough of Queens at the western end of Long Island. Brooklyn has several bridge and tunnel connections to the borough of Manhattan across the East River, and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge connects it with Staten Island. Since 1896, Brooklyn has been coterminous with Kings County, the most populous county in the U.S. state of New York and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, after New York County (which is coextensive with the borough of Manhattan).With a land area of 71 square miles (180 km2) and water area of 26 square miles (67 km2), Kings County is New York state's fourth-smallest county by land area and third-smallest by total area, though it is the second-largest among the city's five boroughs. Today, if each borough were ranked as a city, Brooklyn would rank as the third-most populous in the U.S., after Los Angeles and Chicago.
Brooklyn was an independent incorporated city (and previously an authorized village and town within the provisions of the New York State Constitution) until January 1, 1898, when, after a long political campaign and public relations battle during the 1890s, according to the new Municipal Charter of Greater New York, Brooklyn was consolidated with the other cities, boroughs, and counties to form the modern City of New York, surrounding the Upper New York Bay with five constituent boroughs. The borough continues, however, to maintain a distinct culture. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves. Brooklyn's official motto, displayed on the Borough seal and flag, is Eendraght Maeckt Maght, which translates from early modern Dutch as Unity makes strength.
In the first decades of the 21st century, Brooklyn has experienced a renaissance as an avant garde destination for hipsters, with concomitant gentrification, dramatic house price increases, and a decrease in housi ...
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Brooklyn () is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, it borders the borough of Queens, at the western end of Long Island. Brooklyn also has several bridge connections to the boroughs of Manhattan (across the East River) and Staten Island (across the Verrazano Narrows Bridge). Since 1896, the borough has been coterminous with Kings County, the most populous county in the U.S. state of New York and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, after the county of New York (which is coextensive with the borough of Manhattan).With a land area of 71 square miles (180 km2) and water area of 26 square miles (67 km2), Kings County is New York's fourth-smallest county by land area and third-smallest by total area, though it is the second-largest among the city's five boroughs. Today, if New York City dissolved, Brooklyn would rank as the third-most populous city in the U.S. after Los Angeles and Chicago.
Brooklyn was an independent incorporated city (and previously an authorized village and town within the provisions of the New York State Constitution) until January 1, 1898, when, after a long political campaign and public relations battle during the 1890s, according to the new Municipal Charter of Greater New York, Brooklyn was consolidated with the other cities, boroughs, and counties to form the modern City of New York, surrounding the Upper New York Bay with five constituent boroughs. The borough continues, however, to maintain a distinct culture. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves. Brooklyn's official motto, displayed on the Borough seal and flag, is Eendraght Maeckt Maght, which translates from early modern Dutch as Unity makes strength.
In the first decades of the 21st century, Brooklyn has experienced a renaissance as an avant garde destination for hipsters, with concomitant gentrification, dramatic house price increases, and a decrease in housing affordability. Since 2010, Brooklyn has evolved into a thriving hub of entrepreneurship and high technology startup firms, and of postmodern art and design.