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April 1, 2009

Closing Bell: First Inductees into the Brooklyn Hall of Fame

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We previously wrote about the website that is dedicated to the famous people who called Brooklyn home at one time. Votes were cast for the first inductees into the Brooklyn Hall of Fame and now they have been tallied. The first 5 inducted are Walt Whitman, Jackie Robinson, Arthur Miller, Norman Mailer, and Lena Horne. Do you agree with this list? Who should be inducted in 2010?




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Categories: Closing Bell

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me. Or do you need to be dead 1st. Then not me.

Posted by: Petebklyn at April 1, 2009 4:14 PM

Pete...you should be inducted because of your walking.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 1, 2009 4:22 PM

Henry Miller

Posted by: TownhouseLady at April 1, 2009 4:24 PM

Heath Ledger

Posted by: Make My Heights the P Heights at April 1, 2009 4:30 PM

Barney Miller.

Posted by: SnarkSlope at April 1, 2009 4:30 PM


Jackie Gleason and Vince Lombardi.

Posted by: East New York at April 1, 2009 4:32 PM

Patty Duke

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 1, 2009 4:32 PM

Aaron Copland

Posted by: ProspectHeightsGuy at April 1, 2009 4:39 PM

the phantom stoop pooper

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at April 1, 2009 4:51 PM

Mel Brooks
Jimmy Durante
Will Eisner
Lou Reed
Mickey Rooney

the list goes on and on, Brooklyn rules

Posted by: lifer at April 1, 2009 4:53 PM

biggie and jay-z

Posted by: randolph at April 1, 2009 5:06 PM

Barbara Stanwyck, Rita Hayworth, Barbra Streisand, Sid Luckman

Posted by: GHB at April 1, 2009 5:21 PM

Jean Micheal Basquat (sp?)
Mary Tyler Moore
Mel Brooks (I think)
Veronica Lake (another I think)

Posted by: bayridgegirl at April 1, 2009 5:30 PM

Pat Cooper

Posted by: beeker at April 1, 2009 5:46 PM

George Gershwin
Carl Sagan
Maurice Sendak
Barry Manilow
Shelly Winters
Henny Youngman
Larry David
Neal Diamond
Adam Yauch
Spike Lee
Scott Baio

Posted by: rh at April 1, 2009 5:57 PM

a whole bunch

http://www.who2.com/city_newyork_brooklyn.html

Posted by: lifer at April 1, 2009 6:14 PM

Mae West

and the classic crossword clue: West of Brooklyn?

Posted by: sam at April 1, 2009 7:35 PM

Marky Ramone
Chief Jay Strongbow
all the Foners

Posted by: mgm at April 1, 2009 8:00 PM

Paul Auster
The Beastie Boys

Posted by: stringer at April 1, 2009 8:02 PM

arlo guthrie, harry chapin

Posted by: Petebklyn at April 1, 2009 8:13 PM


Truman Capote & Betty Smith

Posted by: YngRntr at April 1, 2009 8:27 PM

Turturro
Auster

Posted by: cmu at April 1, 2009 8:31 PM

Barbara Streisand

Bobby Fisher

Biz Markie

Michael Jordan

Connie Hawkins

Eubie Blake (That Asshat Dave lives on his block!)

The What

Someday this war is gonna end...

Posted by: Return of The What at April 1, 2009 8:44 PM

What,
It's Barbra Streisand.
She spells it funny.

Posted by: sam at April 1, 2009 9:36 PM

Hey What...where did Eubie live???

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 2, 2009 8:11 AM

Found it...284 A Stuyvesant Ave...half a block away. Thanks What. I found a copy of a letter to him online. I'm going to give it to Solomon's Porch, apparently just across the street from where he lived!!!

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at April 2, 2009 9:20 AM

Hubert Selby
Stephen Jay Gould

Posted by: brooklynette at April 2, 2009 11:02 AM

Chief Jay Strongbow? Wow. Didn't know that.

Posted by: rh at April 2, 2009 11:32 AM

Never knew Walt Whitman was Hasidic! Amazing! Oy, the Leaves of Grass. . .

Posted by: Gallstoner at April 2, 2009 11:56 AM

Richard Wright

Posted by: The Who at April 2, 2009 12:39 PM

Roz Chast

Lawrence Fishburn

Ira Gershwin

Beverley Sills

Richard Tucker

Posted by: Sparafucile at April 2, 2009 1:52 PM

Gil Hodges
Woody Allen
Mel Brooks
Paul Auster
Roebling

Posted by: tomgee at April 2, 2009 3:02 PM

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