Wednesday, July 06 07pm to 09pm
Central Library
10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238

Neighborhoods are more than just tangible, physical environments in which people live — they mirror and embody the essence of those who inhabit them. Resident’s classes, religious beliefs, cultures, political stances and more all culminate to make a neighborhood what it is. These factors determine its uniqueness, characteristics & sustainability. The City of New York is currently made up of over 400 neighborhoods; each one as diverse and complex as the next Divided into boroughs and listed in order of geographic size they are as follows: Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, The Bronx and Manhattan.

Since the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act, New York, and especially Brooklyn, has seen a massive influx of immigrants from Latin America, Africa and Asia, who, coupled with gentrification, have been actively reshaping the neighborhoods of New York. Join us as we take a close look at three neighborhood of Brooklyn, Bensonhurst, Sunset Park, and Dyker Heights, through photography and oral histories from, former and current residents, and find out what these neighborhoods look like today, a half a century after the legislature that made it possible.

These research findings will be presented by participants of the Mellon Research Project, a college-wide, interdisciplinary project at Brooklyn College.

For more information visit: http://www.bklynlibrary.org/