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    Brooklynites You Should Know

    How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Made It From Midwood to the Supreme Court

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg
    • Brooklyn Life

    • Midwood

    Mar 15, 2016 • 02:00pm
    by Hannah Frishberg
    6

    The Notorious RBG, as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is known to her fans, shares a home borough with the original Notorious title holder — the late rapper Biggie Smalls, aka the Notorious B.I.G.

    Read on for a brief history of the Brooklyn-born justice.

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    Brooklynite You Should Know: Harry Nilsson

    • Brooklyn Life

      Mar 4, 2016 • 03:00pm
      by Hannah Frishberg
      3

      Everybody’s talkin’ bout him — but do any of them realize that he’s from Brooklyn? 

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      Brooklynite You Should Know: Judge Judy

          Feb 19, 2016 • 02:24pm
          by Hannah Frishberg
          12

          Photo via YouTube

          Best known for her eponymous reality television series Judge Judy, Judith Sheindlin may hold court in Los Angeles, but she was raised in Brooklyn.

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          Brooklynite You Should Know: Shirley Chisholm

          shirley chisholm
          • Brooklyn Life

            Feb 15, 2016 • 10:30am
            by Hannah Frishberg

            The late great Shirley Chisholm was not only the first African-American woman to be elected to Congress, she was also the first major-party black candidate for the President of the United States and the first woman to run for the Democratic nomination for president.

            She was born in Bed Stuy

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