Talk:Clinton Hill, Brooklyn

Residents

These were removed today as unreferenced (diff).

I note them here incaase someone wants to do the legwork:

• Pioneer of the U.S. petroleum industry, Standard Oil magnate and philanthropist Charles Pratt
• Industrialist and philanthropist Charles Millard Pratt
• Conservationist, philanthropist, Boy Scout sponsor, big-game hunter and collector of ancient antiquities George Dupont Pratt
• Founder of Pfizer Inc. pharmaceutical company Charles Pfizer
• Baking soda magnate Joseph C. Hoagland
• American entrepreneur and inventor who founded the Underwood Typewriter Company John Thomas Underwood
• Argentine super-model Yamila Diaz-Rahi currently lives in Clinton Hill.
• Singer Erykah Badu currently lives in Clinton Hill.
• Actor Chris Rock currently lives in Clinton Hill.
• Poet Marianne Moore lived and worked in Clinton Hill. Her Clinton Hill apartment, preserved as it was, is now on view at the Rosenbach Museum, in Center City, Philadelphia.

Wwwhatsup (talk) 07:05, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Why is "Body by Brooklyn" and 275 Park Ave. so prominetly mentioned is this artcle. Looks like marketing to me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.255.72.43 (talk) 00:13, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

"Affluent neighborhood" in lede

Not sure why we need a POV descriptor in the lede? --The lorax (talk) 21:36, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Why is it a POV? Is "working class", or "middle class" a POV? It's just a description. BMK (talk) 21:41, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

The transition from Marianne Moore to Biggie Smalls has been left out

If you want to talk about omissions in this strange, sanitized little article, talk about how, within twenty years time, poet Marianne Moore's beloved neighborhood became Biggie Smalls's neighborhood. Where is the history of that rapid, astonishing change? It is not politically incorrect to record it. The Great Migration is an important part of American history. Nor was it an easy transition. I remember a race riot between dozens of children on the walls of the ruined Underwood mansion, across the street from my home. The next year the Underwood ruins burned down in an enormous fire. If Biggie Smalls did indeed sell drugs on his home street, 226 St. James Place, he did not do it in, or even near, Bed-Stuy. That myth was added to make him more legit. Biggie did it in the shadow of prestigious Adelphi Academy's grand building, my alma mater, founded 1863 on the corner of Lafayette and St. James Place, by Pratt, Henry Ward Beecher and Horace Greeley. In the early Fifties all my classmates were leaving Brooklyn. I had 6 teachers during second grade, as faculty fled. As Adelphi's website now records, "By 1965, only 300 students were enrolled in facilities originally designed for 1,000. This was a plant which had been described in Harold Amos’s day as having “…in addition to sixty-three classrooms, a visual education room, two art studios, three offices, four faculty-student conference rooms, a woodshed, a wardrobe room, a sleeping room, fourteen rest rooms, a printing shop, a sewing room, two cooking rooms, four lunch rooms, two student newspaper offices, a student hospital, a rifle range, two out door playgrounds, a large auditorium, a two-story field house and twenty-three acres of playing field.” What the article affects to disdain as "gentification" is merely the return of the children of the people who built Adelphi and every classic building in Clinton Hill. How is that "gentrification?"Profhum (talk) 04:51, 14 May 2018 (UTC)