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In 1887, a garment boss named Elias Kaplan moved his factory to a marshy stretch of eastern Brooklyn to escape the unions. Within two decades, the neighborhood he helped fill — Brownsville — held over 100,000 residents, a mile-long commercial strip on Pitkin Avenue generating $90 million a year, and the architectural crown jewel of working-class Brooklyn: the Loew’s Pitkin Theatre, a 2,827-seat movie palace designed by Thomas Lamb. It also held Midnight Rose’s candy store, where Murder, Inc. dispatched as many as a thousand contract killings. This is the story of how Brownsville rose from farmland to the largest Jewish neighborhood in New York City, produced Aaron Copland, Danny Kaye, and the first birth control clinic in America — and then lost nearly everything when Robert Moses, public housing, deindustrialization, and the crack epidemic converged on the same twelve blocks. From the pushcarts of Belmont Avenue to the vacant storefronts of the 1970s, from the Socialist assemblymen of the 1920s to the teacher strikes of 1968, Brownsville’s history is the story of a neighborhood that was always someone else’s solution to someone else’s problem — and the extraordinary things its residents built anyway.
Sources
Wendell E. Pritchett, Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto (University of Chicago Press, 2002)
Alfred Kazin, A Walker in the City (Harcourt Brace, 1951)
Alter F. Landesman, Brownsville: The Birth, Development and Passing of a Jewish Community in New York (Bloch Publishing, 1969)
The Margaret Sanger Papers Project, New York University (sanger.hosting.nyu.edu)
Brownsville Jewish Community Center Historical Archive (brownsvillejcc.com/history)
Rob Stephenson, “Brownsville — Brooklyn,” The Neighborhoods, 2025