92-581: Strax may refer to: Strax affair , a sequence of events at the University of New Brunswick in the late 1960s Commander Strax , a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who Philip Strax (1909–1999), American radiologist and pioneer in the use of mammography Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
184-496: A Pakistani enclave. Brooklyn's most populous racial group, white, declined from 97.2% in 1930 to 46.9% by 1990. The borough attracts people previously living in other cities in the United States. Of these, most come from Chicago , Detroit , San Francisco , Washington, D.C. , Baltimore , Philadelphia , Boston , Cincinnati , and Seattle . Given New York City's role as a crossroads for immigration from around
276-567: A humid subtropical climate ( Cfa ), with partial shielding from the Appalachian Mountains and moderating influences from the Atlantic Ocean . Brooklyn receives plentiful precipitation all year round, with nearly 50 in (1,300 mm) yearly. The area averages 234 days with at least some sunshine annually, and averages 57% of possible sunshine annually, accumulating 2,535 hours of sunshine per annum. Brooklyn lies in
368-535: A 14-block area in 1890. On the southwestern waterfront of Kings County, railroads and industrialization spread to Sunset Park (then coterminous with the city's sprawling, sparsely populated Eighth Ward) and adjacent Bay Ridge (hitherto a resort-like subsection of the Town of New Utrecht ). Within a decade, the city had annexed the Town of New Lots in 1886; the Towns of Flatbush , Gravesend and New Utrecht in 1894; and
460-553: A busy port city on New York Harbor by the 19th century. On January 1, 1898, after a long political campaign and public-relations battle during the 1890s and despite opposition from Brooklyn residents, Brooklyn was consolidated in and annexed (along with other areas) to form the current five-borough structure of New York City in accordance to the new municipal charter of " Greater New York ". The borough continues to maintain some distinct culture . Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves . With Jews forming around
552-403: A hill near the west end of present-day Atlantic Avenue , was reported to have emotionally exclaimed: "What brave men I must this day lose!". The fortified American positions at Brooklyn Heights consequently became untenable and were evacuated a few days later, leaving the British in control of New York Harbor . While Washington's defeat on the battlefield cast early doubts on his ability as
644-748: A longstanding cultural lineage include Canarsie , Sea Gate , and Crown Heights , home to the Chabad world headquarters. Neighborhoods with largely defunct yet historically notable Jewish populations include central Flatbush, East Flatbush, Brownsville, East New York, Bensonhurst and Sheepshead Bay (particularly its Madison subsection). Many hospitals in Brooklyn were started by Jewish charities, including Maimonides Medical Center in Borough Park and Brookdale Hospital in East Flatbush. According to
736-568: A major role in supplying troops and materiel for the American Civil War . The best-known regiment to be sent off to war from the city was the 14th Brooklyn "Red Legged Devils" . They fought from 1861 to 1864, wore red the entire war, and were the only regiment named after a city. President Abraham Lincoln called them into service, making them part of a handful of three-year enlisted soldiers in April 1861. Unlike other regiments during
828-625: A member of its faculty". The letter to Strax did not state a reason for his suspension. The newly enacted UNB Act allowed the president to suspend a faculty member but required him to inform the Board of Governors of his action and the reason for it. Mackay called a special meeting of the board for September 28 to deal with the matter. On September 27 Strax and a number of supporters moved into Strax's office in Loring Bailey Hall and refused to leave, beginning an occupation that lasted over
920-405: A month and became known as "Liberation 130" after the office number. The Board of Governors struck a committee of faculty members to study the matter, meet with Strax, and report on October 8. Meanwhile, the president took Strax to court, applying on September 30 for injunctions to remove Strax from the campus and prevent him from "returning to or entering upon any part of the lands and premises of
1012-493: A quarter of its population, the borough has been described as "the most Jewish spot on Earth". Brooklyn's official motto, displayed on the borough seal and flag , is Eendraght Maeckt Maght , which translates from early modern Dutch as ' Unity makes strength '. Educational institutions in Brooklyn include the City University of New York 's Brooklyn College , Medgar Evers College , and College of Technology . In
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#17327971636161104-540: A separate mayor, elected a Borough President . In 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was completed, transportation to Manhattan was no longer by water only, and the City of Brooklyn's ties to the City of New York were strengthened. The question became whether Brooklyn was prepared to engage in the still-grander process of consolidation then developing throughout the region, whether to join with the county of Richmond and
1196-661: A student newspaper. Oliver pleaded guilty and printed a retraction in The Brunswickan . At a court appearance on January 29, 1969, he was sentenced to pay $ 50 or spend 15 days in jail. Friends and supporters in the courtroom took up a collection to pay the fine. Murphy contested the charge and appeared in the Appeals Division of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick on January 22, 1969, to "show cause why he should not be charged with contempt of court". He
1288-509: A variation of the place name " Canarsie ". Bands were associated with place names, but the colonists thought their names represented different tribes. The Breuckelen settlement was named after Breukelen in the Netherlands ; it was part of New Netherland . The Dutch West India Company lost little time in chartering the six original parishes (listed here by their later English town names): The colony's capital of New Amsterdam , across
1380-592: A variety of Jewish businesses. Adjacent to Borough Park, the Kensington area housed a significant population of Conservative Jews (under the aegis of such nationally prominent midcentury rabbis as Jacob Bosniak and Abraham Heller) when it was still considered to be a subsection of Flatbush; many of their defunct facilities have been repurposed to serve extensions of the Borough Park Hasidic community. Other notable religious Jewish neighborhoods with
1472-441: A water meter magnate and close friend of President Grover Cleveland ), with nearby Crown Heights gradually fulfilling an analogous role for the city's Jewish population as development continued through the early 20th century. Northeast of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick (by now a working class, predominantly German district) established a considerable brewery industry; the so-called "Brewer's Row" encompassed 14 breweries operating in
1564-566: Is derived from the original Dutch town of Breukelen . The oldest mention of the settlement in the Netherlands is in a charter of 953 by Holy Roman Emperor Otto I as Broecklede . This form is made up of the words broeck , meaning bog or marshland , and lede , meaning small (dug) water stream, specifically in peat areas. Breuckelen on the American continent was established in 1646, and the name first appeared in print in 1663. Over
1656-490: Is the second most densely populated county in the U.S. after Manhattan (New York County), as of 2022. Had Brooklyn remained an independent city, it would now be the fourth most populous American city after the rest of New York City, Los Angeles , and Chicago . Named after the Dutch town of Breukelen in the Netherlands, Brooklyn shares a border with the borough of Queens . It has several bridge and tunnel connections to
1748-507: Is water (27%); the borough is the second-largest by land area among the New York City's boroughs. However, Kings County, coterminous with Brooklyn, is New York State's fourth-smallest county by land area and third-smallest by total area. Brooklyn lies at the southwestern end of Long Island, and the borough's western border constitutes the island's western tip. Brooklyn's water borders are extensive and varied, including Jamaica Bay ;
1840-617: The Atlantic Ocean ; The Narrows , separating Brooklyn from the borough of Staten Island in New York City and crossed by the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge ; Upper New York Bay , separating Brooklyn from Jersey City and Bayonne in the U.S. state of New Jersey ; and the East River , separating Brooklyn from the borough of Manhattan in New York City and traversed by the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel ,
1932-617: The Brighton Beach Line in 1878 heralded the end of this isolation. Sports in Brooklyn became a business. The Brooklyn Bridegrooms played professional baseball at Washington Park in the convenient suburb of Park Slope and elsewhere. Early in the next century, under their new name of Brooklyn Dodgers, they brought baseball to Ebbets Field , beyond Prospect Park. Racetracks, amusement parks , and beach resorts opened in Brighton Beach , Coney Island , and elsewhere in
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#17327971636162024-682: The Brooklyn Bridge , the Manhattan Bridge , the Williamsburg Bridge , and numerous routes of the New York City Subway . To the east of Brooklyn lies the borough of Queens, which contains John F. Kennedy International Airport in that borough's Jamaica neighborhood, approximately two miles from the border of Brooklyn's East New York neighborhood. Under the Köppen climate classification , Brooklyn experiences
2116-481: The Brooklyn Fire Department (BFD) also gave way to the new Metropolitan Fire District. Throughout this period the peripheral towns of Kings County, far from Manhattan and even from urban Brooklyn, maintained their rustic independence. The only municipal change seen was the secession of the eastern section of the Town of Flatbush as the Town of New Lots in 1852. The building of rail links such as
2208-702: The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT). Other components of the affair were the lengthy occupation of Strax's former office by his supporters and the jailing of a student for an article that appeared in the student newspaper questioning the objectivity of the New Brunswick legal system. The formal lifting of the CAUT censure in September 1969 brought the Strax affair to an end. In 1968
2300-549: The Middle Colonies of nascent British America . On November 1, 1683, Kings County was partitioned from the West Riding of York Shire, containing the six old Dutch towns on southwestern Long Island, as one of the "original twelve counties" . This tract of land was recognized as a political entity for the first time, and the municipal groundwork was laid for a later expansive idea of a Brooklyn identity. Lacking
2392-646: The New Netherland colony in 1664, a prelude to the Second Anglo-Dutch War . New Netherland was taken in a naval action, and the English renamed the new capture for their naval commander, James, Duke of York , brother of the then monarch King Charles II and future king himself as King James II . Brooklyn became a part of the West Riding of York Shire in the Province of New York , one of
2484-512: The State of New York . Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County , one of twelve original counties established under British rule in 1683 in the then Province of New York . As of the 2020 United States census , the population stood at 2,736,074, making it the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City, the most populous county in the state. Brooklyn, at 37,339.9 inhabitants per square mile (14,417.0/km ),
2576-451: The USDA plant hardiness zone 7b . Brooklyn's neighborhoods are dynamic in ethnic composition. For example, the early to mid-20th century, Brownsville had a majority of Jewish residents; since the 1970s it has been majority African American. Midwood during the early 20th century was filled with ethnic Irish , then filled with Jewish residents for nearly 50 years, and is slowly becoming
2668-510: The automobile and commuter rail -driven vogue for more remote prewar suburban communities, such as Garden City, New York and Montclair, New Jersey . The rapidly growing population needed more water, so the City built centralized waterworks, including the Ridgewood Reservoir . The municipal Police Department, however, was abolished in 1854 in favor of a Metropolitan force covering also New York and Westchester Counties. In 1865
2760-522: The patroon and tenant farmer system established along the Hudson River Valley , this agricultural county unusually came to have one of the highest percentages of slaves among the population in the "Original Thirteen Colonies" along the Atlantic Ocean eastern coast of North America . On August 27, 1776, the Battle of Long Island (also known as the 'Battle of Brooklyn') was fought,
2852-608: The 'h' from its name. By 1841, with the appearance of The Brooklyn Eagle, and Kings County Democrat published by Alfred G. Stevens, the growing city across the East River from Manhattan was producing its own prominent newspaper. It later became the most popular and highest circulation afternoon paper in America. The publisher changed to L. Van Anden on April 19, 1842, and the paper was renamed The Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Kings County Democrat on June 1, 1846. On May 14, 1849,
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2944-842: The 1883 poem, " The New Colossus " by Emma Lazarus , which appears on a plaque inside the Statue of Liberty . The poem calls New York Harbor "the air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame". As a twin city to New York, it played a role in national affairs that was later overshadowed by decades of subordination by its old partner and rival. During this period, the affluent, contiguous districts of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill (then characterized collectively as The Hill) were home to such notable figures as Astral Oil Works founder Charles Pratt and his children, including local civic leader Charles Millard Pratt ; Theosophical Society co-founder William Quan Judge ; and Pfizer co-founders Charles Pfizer and Charles F. Erhart . Brooklyn Heights remained one of
3036-536: The 19th century and two-thirds of the 20th century. The first center of urbanization sprang up in the Town of Brooklyn, directly across from Lower Manhattan , which saw the incorporation of the Village of Brooklyn in 1816. Reliable steam ferry service across the East River to Fulton Landing converted Brooklyn Heights into a commuter town for Wall Street . Ferry Road to Jamaica Pass became Fulton Street to East New York . Town and Village were combined to form
3128-630: The 19th century and was consolidated in 1898 with New York City (then confined to Manhattan and the Bronx ), the remaining rural areas of Kings County, and the largely rural areas of Queens and Staten Island , to form the modern City of New York. The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle Long Island's western edge, which was then largely inhabited by the Lenape , an Algonquian-speaking American Indian tribe often referred to in European documents by
3220-652: The 19th century. The waterfront from Gowanus to Greenpoint was developed with piers and factories. Industrial access to the waterfront was improved by the Gowanus Canal and the canalized Newtown Creek . USS Monitor was the most famous product of the large and growing shipbuilding industry of Williamsburg. After the Civil War , trolley lines and other transport brought urban sprawl beyond Prospect Park (completed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1873 and widely heralded as an improvement upon
3312-593: The American Civil War, the 14th wore a uniform inspired by the French Chasseurs , a light infantry used for quick assaults. As a seaport and a manufacturing center, Brooklyn was well prepared to contribute to the Union's strengths in shipping and manufacturing. The two combined in shipbuilding; the ironclad Monitor was built in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is referred to as the twin city of New York in
3404-570: The American Jewish Population Project in 2020, Brooklyn was home to over 480,000 Jews. In 2023, the UJA-Federation of New York estimated that Brooklyn is home to 462,000 Jews, a large decrease compared to the 561,000 estimated in 2011. The predominantly Jewish, Crown Heights (and later East Flatbush)-based Madison Democratic Club served as the borough's primary "clubhouse" political venue for decades until
3496-524: The CAUT National Council meeting on November 16–17 UNB was criticized for "suspending a faculty member without stated charges or provisions for an adjudicative hearing". The Board of Governors declined to deal with the Strax affair as long as UNB's court proceedings against him were unsettled. Their determination to wait another month in case he appealed the decision made at the end of December 1968 meant further delay and noncompliance with
3588-467: The CAUT request for arbitration. On January 17, 1969, the CAUT demanded that UNB initiate arbitration , rescind the injunctions against Strax, and pay his court costs. Otherwise the university risked censure by the CAUT. Censure meant that CAUT members "would be advised not to accept appointments there and others ... would be advised to inform themselves of the CAUT reasons for the censure." The Board of Governors agreed to arbitration but refused to dissolve
3680-524: The East River, obtained its charter in 1653. The neighborhood of Marine Park was home to North America's first tide mill . It was built by the Dutch, and the foundation can be seen today. But the area was not formally settled as a town. Many incidents and documents relating to this period are in Gabriel Furman 's 1824 compilation. Present-day Brooklyn left Dutch hands after the English captured
3772-459: The Heights, the less exclusive South Brooklyn was home to longtime civic leader James S. T. Stranahan , who became known (often derisively) as the " Baron Haussmann of Brooklyn" for championing Prospect Park and other public works. Economic growth continued, propelled by immigration and industrialization , and Brooklyn established itself as the third-most populous American city for much of
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3864-746: The Mobilization members alleged exploitation of "workers and students" by a provincial government "under the thumb of K. C. Irving and other capitalist interests". In April 1968 Strax participated in the Columbia University protests , and he was in Chicago for the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests . In the summer of 1968 the university extended Strax's probationary appointment for one year, to June 30, 1969, subject to several conditions, including more participation in departmental activities and increased research output. In
3956-650: The Mobilization, led by Strax, organized bus transportation for approximately 150 people from Fredericton to Washington, D.C., for the March on the Pentagon . This aroused the indignation of Calais, Maine , American Legion branch leaders, who complained to U.S.Senators Edmund Muskie and Margaret Chase Smith . The trip was also condemned by the Fredericton branch of the Royal Canadian Legion and
4048-819: The New York metropolitan area's most august patrician redoubts into the early 20th century under the aegis of such figures as abolitionist clergyman Henry Ward Beecher , Congregationalist theologians Lyman Abbott and Newell Dwight Hillis (who followed Beecher as the second and third pastors of Plymouth Church , respectively), financier John Jay Pierrepont (a grandson of founding Heights resident Hezekiah Pierrepont ), banker/art collector David Leavitt , educator/politician Seth Low , merchant/banker Horace Brigham Claflin , attorney William Cary Sanger (who served for two years as United States Assistant Secretary of War under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt ) and publisher Alfred Smith Barnes . Contiguous to
4140-490: The Town of Flatlands in 1896. Brooklyn had reached its natural municipal boundaries at the ends of Kings County. Low's time in office from 1882 to 1885 was marked by a number of reforms: Brooklyn elected a mayor from 1834 until 1898, after which it was consolidated into the City of Greater New York , whose own second mayor (1902–1903), Seth Low, had been Mayor of Brooklyn from 1882 to 1885. Since 1898, Brooklyn has, in place of
4232-404: The University of New Brunswick (UNB) had a student body of 4,800. Colin B. Mackay had been the university's president since 1953, during which time it had greatly expanded, evolving from "a professional school emphasizing science and applied science" to one that provided "a more general education with emphasis on the humanities and social sciences". In 1968 the university's governance structure
4324-559: The area, and afterward the British generally enjoyed a dominant Loyalist sentiment from the residents in Kings County who did not evacuate, though the region was also the center of the fledgling—and largely successful— Patriot intelligence network , headed by Washington himself. The British set up a system of prison ships off the coast of Brooklyn in Wallabout Bay . More American patriots died there than in combat on all
4416-533: The area. It is called "Brooklyn's Chinatown" and originally it was a small Chinese enclave with Cantonese speakers being the main Chinese population during the late 1980s and 1990s, but since the 2000s, the Chinese population in the area dramatically shifted to majority Fuzhounese Americans , which contributed immensely to expanding this Chinatown, and bestowing the nicknames " Fuzhou Town ( 福州埠 ), Brooklyn" or
4508-1017: The ascendancy of Meade Esposito 's rival, Canarsie-based Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club in the 1960s and 1970s, playing an integral role in the rise of such figures as Speaker of the New York State Assembly Irwin Steingut ; his son, fellow Speaker Stanley Steingut ; New York City Mayor Abraham Beame ; real estate developer Fred Trump ; Democratic district leader Beadie Markowitz; and political fixer Abraham "Bunny" Lindenbaum. Many non-Orthodox Jews (ranging from observant members of various denominations to atheists of Jewish cultural heritage) are concentrated in Ditmas Park and Park Slope , with smaller observant and culturally Jewish populations in Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Brighton Beach, and Coney Island. Over 200,000 Chinese Americans live throughout
4600-690: The battlefield engagements of the American Revolutionary War combined. One result of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 was the evacuation of the British from New York City , which was celebrated by New Yorkers into the 20th century. The first half of the 19th century saw the beginning of the development of urban areas on the economically strategic East River shore of Kings County, facing the adolescent City of New York confined to Manhattan Island. The New York Navy Yard operated in Wallabout Bay (border between Fort Greene and Williamsburg) during
4692-431: The borough of Manhattan, across the East River , and is connected to Staten Island by way of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge . With a land area of 69.38 square miles (179.7 km ) and a water area of 27.48 square miles (71.2 km ), Kings County is the state of New York's fourth-smallest county by land area and third smallest by total area. Brooklyn was founded by the Dutch in the 17th century and grew into
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#17327971636164784-452: The circulation desk and demanded to be allowed to sign them out without UNB ID cards. After repeated refusals by library staff, the library building was closed early. Similar demonstrations took place on September 21 and 23. On September 24, Mackay suspended Strax from UNB "effective immediately", informing him by letter that "you no longer have any duties to perform here, and that all rights and privileges are withdrawn which normally belong to
4876-651: The city's newspaper, The Daily Gleaner . Approximately 50 UNB students disrupted a Mobilization meeting in November, chanting "Down with Strax". In February 1968 Strax was among Mobilization members who staged an occupation and sit-in at the Centennial Building in Fredericton, disrupting a meeting between the provincial government and the Students Representative Council about university tuition fees. Handbills distributed by
4968-524: The commander, the tactical withdrawal of all his troops and supplies across the East River in a single night is now seen by historians as one of his most brilliant triumphs. The British controlled the surrounding region for the duration of the war, as New York City was soon occupied and became their military and political base of operations in North America for the remainder of the conflict. The Patriot residents largely fled or were cleared from
5060-457: The court summons. The contempt charge was scheduled to be heard in November. The committee was not ready to report to the October 8 Board of Governors meeting, which decided to wait until it received the report before taking action on the suspension. The meeting was the occasion of student demonstrations both for and against Strax. In the morning some of his supporters occupied the hall outside
5152-417: The day shift and another 12 on the night shift. Every time a rash of burglaries broke out, officials blamed burglars from New York City. Finally, in 1855, a modern police force was created, employing 150 men. Voters complained of inadequate protection and excessive costs. In 1857, the state legislature merged the Brooklyn force with that of New York City. Fervent in the Union cause, the city of Brooklyn played
5244-535: The earlier Central Park ) into the center of the county, as evinced by gradual settlement in the comparatively rustic villages of Windsor Terrace and Kensington in the Town of Flatbush. By century's end, Dean Alvord 's Prospect Park South development (adjacent to the village of Flatbush) would serve as the template for contemporaneous " Victorian Flatbush " micro-neighborhoods and the post-consolidation emergence of outlying districts, such as Midwood and Marine Park . Along with Oak Park, Illinois , it also presaged
5336-585: The fall term of 1968 photo ID cards were introduced at UNB. Their use was supported by the Students Representative Council (SRC) and the implementation costs were split between the SRC and the university. However, Strax and other activists saw them as "infringement on individual rights, smacking of police-state tactics" and "decided to counter-attack" at the campus library, where the cards had to be presented in order to sign out books. On September 20, Strax and several students repeatedly carried piles of library books to
5428-467: The first decades of the 21st century, Brooklyn has experienced a renaissance as a destination for hipsters , with concomitant gentrification , dramatic house-price increases, and a decrease in housing affordability. Some new developments are required to include affordable housing units. Since the 2010s, parts of Brooklyn have evolved into a hub of entrepreneurship, high-technology startup firms , postmodern art , and design. The name Brooklyn
5520-575: The first major engagement fought in the American Revolutionary War after independence was declared , and the largest of the entire conflict. British troops forced Continental Army troops under George Washington off the heights near the modern sites of Green-Wood Cemetery , Prospect Park , and Grand Army Plaza . Washington , viewing particularly fierce fighting at the Gowanus Creek and Old Stone House from atop
5612-412: The first, kernel incarnation of the City of Brooklyn in 1834. In a parallel development, the Town of Bushwick, farther up the river, saw the incorporation of the Village of Williamsburgh in 1827, which separated as the Town of Williamsburgh in 1840 and formed the short-lived City of Williamsburgh in 1851. Industrial deconcentration in the mid-century was bringing shipbuilding and other manufacturing to
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#17327971636165704-410: The injunction or pay Strax's costs. On March 15 the CAUT council voted to censure UNB. On March 20 more than 1,000 students demonstrated outside a UNB Board of Governors meeting, urging the Board to act. The Board agreed to the CAUT's demands, including setting up an arbitration procedure and applying to have the injunctions lifted. The removal of censure was delayed by the judge's initial refusal to lift
5796-409: The injunctions and then by Strax's inability to retain a representative on the arbitration tribunal. The censure was lifted on September 2, 1969, after UNB agreed not to claim damages and costs from Strax. Mackay left his position as president of UNB at the end of June 1969, acknowledging that he was "not a democrat" and that a different type of leadership was required for UNB. Strax's contract with
5888-478: The injunctions were again upheld. He ordered Strax to pay $ 2,000 in exemplary damages , plus court costs, for having acted "in a 'high-handed fashion' and persisted in ignoring the rights of others". The publication of Tom Murphy's article in The Brunswickan led to charges of contempt of court against him and the newspaper's editor, John Oliver. This was the first time in New Brunswick history that anyone had been charged with contempt for publishing an article in
5980-548: The library, not for any of his other political activities, but made no comment on whether or not the suspension was justified. After an injunction removed Strax from the UNB campus in early October, the occupation of his office continued as a protest against his suspension. Strax's supporters were subject to periodic attacks by groups of other students who supported the administration's actions. These included "breaking of windows; ladders being placed against Bailey Hall to try and access
6072-399: The loss of Brooklyn's separate identity as a city was met with consternation by some residents at the time. Many newspapers of the day called the merger the "Great Mistake of 1898", and the phrase still elicits Brooklyn pride among old-time Brooklynites. Brooklyn is 97 square miles (250 km ) in area, of which 71 square miles (180 km ) is land (73%), and 26 square miles (67 km )
6164-410: The name that its origin has been debated; some have claimed breuckelen means "broken land". The current name, however, is the one that best reflects its meaning. The history of European settlement in Brooklyn spans more than 350 years. The settlement began in the 17th century as the small Dutch-founded town of "Breuckelen" on the East River shore of Long Island , grew to be a sizeable city in
6256-470: The name was shortened to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle ; on September 5, 1938, it was further shortened to Brooklyn Eagle . The establishment of the paper in the 1840s helped develop a separate identity for Brooklynites over the next century. The borough's soon-to-be-famous National League baseball team, the Brooklyn Dodgers , also assisted with this. Both major institutions were lost in the 1950s:
6348-454: The nation. Brooklyn contains dozens of distinct neighborhoods representing many of the major culturally identified groups found within New York City. Among the most prominent are listed below: Over 600,000 Jews , particularly Orthodox and Hasidic Jews , have become concentrated in such historically Jewish areas as Borough Park , Williamsburg , and Midwood , where there are many yeshivas , synagogues , and kosher restaurants, as well as
6440-433: The northern part of the county. Each of the two cities and six towns in Kings County remained independent municipalities and purposely created non-aligning street grids with different naming systems. However, the East River shore was growing too fast for the three-year-old infant City of Williamsburg; it, along with its Town of Bushwick hinterland, was subsumed within a greater City of Brooklyn in 1855, subsequently dropping
6532-414: The original injunctions at the request of President Mackay. Strax's lawyers argued that his suspension was illegal and that Mackay had not followed proper procedures in seeking the injunctions without Board of Governors authorization. The judge found against Strax, sentencing him to a $ 500 fine and 30 days in jail for violating the injunctions. He served his sentence beginning on November 19, 1968. During
6624-498: The paper closed in 1955 after unsuccessful attempts at a sale following a reporters' strike, and the baseball team decamped for Los Angeles in a realignment of Major League Baseball in 1957. Agitation against Southern slavery was stronger in Brooklyn than in New York, and under Republican leadership, the city was fervent in the Union cause in the Civil War . After the war the Henry Ward Beecher Monument
6716-511: The past two millennia, the name of the ancient town in Holland has been Bracola , Broccke , Brocckede , Broiclede , Brocklandia , Broekclen , Broikelen , Breuckelen, and finally Breukelen . The New Amsterdam settlement of Breuckelen also went through many spelling variations, including Breucklyn , Breuckland , Brucklyn , Broucklyn , Brookland , Brockland , Brocklin , and Brookline/Brook-line . There have been so many variations of
6808-491: The proceedings the judge dismissed one of Strax's lawyers from the case because he had asked the university librarian to testify without informing the prosecution beforehand. Another witness, Tom Murphy, was a UNB student who had been called by the same lawyer to testify in Strax's defense. Murphy wrote a column which was published in the December 3 issue of The Brunswickan , the student newspaper, describing his experiences at
6900-641: The province. His only recourse would have been the Supreme Court of Canada. Murphy was found guilty and sentenced to ten days in jail, with one day off for good behaviour. He was released from the York County Gaol in Fredericton on March 20, 1969. In October 1968 the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) called on the university to inform Strax of the reasons for his suspension, and to set up an arbitration procedure allowing him to defend himself. UNB did not respond, and at
6992-514: The room through a window; rocks, beer bottles, eggs, and garbage were thrown at and into the room, and even mild tear gas was used". The occupation ended on November 10 when Fredericton City Police forced their way into the room and arrested the seven protestors who were present. They were charged with mischief but the charges were later dropped. In November, Strax appeared in court in Saint John before Justice J. Paul Barry, who had issued
7084-485: The room where the meeting was being held, blocking the exit so that some members had to be lifted over the prone bodies of the demonstrators. In the afternoon, at a ceremony to open a new building on campus, Mackay was cheered by a crowd of students who approved of his actions against Strax. The committee tasked with looking into Strax's dismissal submitted its report to the Board of Governors on November 1. They determined that he had been suspended because of his actions in
7176-638: The southern part of the county. Toward the end of the 19th century, the City of Brooklyn experienced its final, explosive growth spurt. Park Slope was rapidly urbanized, with its eastern summit soon emerging as the city's third "Gold Coast" district alongside Brooklyn Heights and The Hill; notable residents of the era included American Chicle Company co-founder Thomas Adams Jr. and New York Central Railroad executive Clinton L. Rossiter. East of The Hill, Bedford-Stuyvesant coalesced as an upper middle class enclave for lawyers, shopkeepers, and merchants of German and Irish descent (notably exemplified by John C. Kelley,
7268-537: The southern parts of Brooklyn, primarily concentrated in Sunset Park , Bensonhurst , Gravesend , and Homecrest . Brooklyn is the borough that is home to the highest number of Chinatowns in New York City . The largest concentration is in Sunset Park along 8th Avenue, which has become known for its Chinese culture since the opening of the now-defunct Winley Supermarket in 1986 spurred widespread settlement in
7360-513: The title Strax . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Strax&oldid=1107993836 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Strax affair The Strax affair
7452-408: The trial, which he called a "mockery of justice". He said that the judge was biased against Strax and that in general the New Brunswick courts were "simply the instruments of the corporate elite". In late December Justice Barry filed his judgment regarding Strax's suspension. He ruled that the suspension was legal and that Strax's presence on the campus after September 24 constituted trespassing, so
7544-481: The university ended on July 1. He stayed in the Fredericton area for 10 years and later taught at Wabash College . He died in 2002 in New York City. The outcome of the Strax affair helped to establish "standards of due process for academic employment in Canada" based on the CAUT policy statement of 1967. Brooklyn Brooklyn is a borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in
7636-419: The university", and to declare him "duly and regularly suspended", as well as claiming damages for "nuisance, trespass and disturbance". Strax was summoned to appear in court in Saint John . After initially refusing to leave the campus, he complied on October 2. The judge upheld the injunction barring Strax from returning to campus and charged him with contempt of court for not having complied immediately with
7728-473: The university's faculty association since 1956. In 1967 the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) released its "Policy Statement on Academic Appointments and Tenure", which was subsequently used as the basis for negotiation between faculty and administration at Canadian universities, although it was not endorsed by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC). Norman Strax
7820-560: The western portion of Queens County , and the county of New York , which by then already included the Bronx , to form the five boroughs of a united City of New York. Andrew Haswell Green and other progressives said yes, and eventually, they prevailed against the Daily Eagle and other conservative forces. In 1894, residents of Brooklyn and the other counties voted by a slight majority to merge, effective in 1898. Kings County retained its status as one of New York State's counties, but
7912-421: The world, Brooklyn has evolved a globally cosmopolitan ambiance of its own, demonstrating a robust and growing demographic and cultural diversity with respect to metrics including nationality, religion, race, and domiciliary partnership . In 2010, 51.6% of the population was counted as members of religious congregations. In 2014, there were 914 religious organizations in Brooklyn, the 10th most of all counties in
8004-587: Was a leading figure in the "Mobilization Against the War in Vietnam", a group which identified with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) but was not an official chapter of it. Strax saw it as his role to make students aware of the "need to protest actively against all sorts of authoritarianism, injustice and, in particular, the U.S. participation and Canada's 'complicity' in the Vietnam War". In October 1967
8096-539: Was a sequence of events at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) in Fredericton in 1968 and 1969. It began in September 1968 when the university president suspended Norman Strax, a young physics professor, after Strax led protests in the university library against the introduction of photo ID cards. The suspension, and UNB's subsequent legal proceedings against Strax, led to the institution's being censured by
8188-536: Was an assistant professor of physics at the University of New Brunswick. Born in 1935 in Brooklyn , he was a son of Philip Strax , a physician. Norman Strax was a 1957 graduate of Princeton University and earned a PhD from Harvard University in 1966. In July 1966 he began a probationary appointment "of from one to two years" at UNB. Strax opposed the Vietnam War and encouraged student activism at UNB. He
8280-440: Was built downtown to honor a famous local abolitionist . A great victory arch was built at what was then the south end of town to celebrate the armed forces; this place is now called Grand Army Plaza . The number of people living in Brooklyn grew rapidly early in the 19th century. There were 4,402 by 1810, 7,175 in 1820 and 15,396 by 1830. The city's population was 25,000 in 1834, but the police department comprised only 12 men on
8372-606: Was reorganized with the aim of giving faculty members control of academic affairs. The University of New Brunswick Act of 1968 led to the formation of two governing bodies, both chaired by the president. The Board of Governors, whose role was to oversee and give guidance to the president as "chief executive officer," was to have four faculty representatives, while the majority of the Senate was to be made up of faculty members elected by their peers. The Association of University of New Brunswick Teachers (AUNBT) had been in existence as
8464-560: Was represented by Alan Borovoy , the newly appointed general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association . Borovoy put forward several defenses including Murphy's right to freedom of speech and the unlikelihood that an article in a student newspaper would "denigrate the court in the eyes of the community". He also objected to the case's being initially heard in the New Brunswick court of appeal, which would make it impossible for Murphy to appeal within
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