Closing Bell: First Inductees into the Brooklyn Hall of Fame
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….
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?
Gil Hodges
Woody Allen
Mel Brooks
Paul Auster
Roebling
Roz Chast
Lawrence Fishburn
Ira Gershwin
Beverley Sills
Richard Tucker
Richard Wright
Never knew Walt Whitman was Hasidic! Amazing! Oy, the Leaves of Grass. . .
Chief Jay Strongbow? Wow. Didn’t know that.
Hubert Selby
Stephen Jay Gould
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!!!
Hey What…where did Eubie live???
What,
It’s Barbra Streisand.
She spells it funny.