The people of Brooklyn come in many different shapes, sizes and colors. Each neighborhood has it's own feeling and culture. In this gallery you will see a great diversity of Brooklyn. I will gradually be adding photos for the world to see. There is only one (real) BROOKLYN and that's in NYC.

Famous people from Brooklyn who are inducted in the Brooklyn Celebrity Path in
the Brooklyn Botanic gardens
Across from the Shakespeare Garden is the start of Celebrity Path, where stepping stones are inscribed with names of famous Brooklynites past and present.

New names are added to Celebrity Path each June on the borough's annual Welcome Back to Brooklyn Day. Here is a list of the Brooklynites honored in Celebrity Path:

* F. Murray Abraham * Carl Abrams * Joey Adams * Woody Allen * Isaac Asimov * Lauren Bacall
*Joseph Barbera * Dave Barry * Gene Barry * Daniel Benzali * Jay Black * Eubie Blake * Joe Bologna
* Clara Bow * Mel Brooks * Julie Budd * Eddie Cantor * Betty Carter * Jack Carter * Harry Chapin
* Dane Clark * Kim Coles * Betty Comden * Didi Conn * Pat Cooper * Aaron Copland * John Corigliano
* Howard Cossell * Vic Damone * Tony Danza * Elaine deKooning * Dom De Luise * Alan M. Dershowitz
* Neil Diamond * Richard Dreyfuss * Eliot Feld * Harvey Fierstein * Fyvush Finkel * Phil Foster
* Vincent Gardenia * George Gershwin * Jack Gilford * Jackie Gleason * Marty Glickman
* Louis Gossett, Jr. * Elliott Gould * Arlo Guthrie * Marty Gunty * Woody Guthrie

* Buddy Hackett * Moss Hart * Connie Hawkins * Susan Hayward * Gil Hayward * Rita Hayworth
* Gregory Hines * Gil Hodges * Celeste Holm * Lena Horne * Edward Everett Horton * Harry Houdini
* Anne Jackson * Lainie Kazan * Danny Kaye * Ezra Jack Keats * Harvey Keitel * Alan King
* Carole King * Larry King * Bernie Kopell * Sandy Koufax * Lee Krasner

* Martin Landau * Julius La Rosa * Jacob Lawrence * Steve Lawrence * Ted Levin
* Harvey Lichtenstein * Tony Lo Bianco * Vince Lombardi * Leonard Lopate * Phillip Lopate
* Norman Mailer * Barry Manilow * Paule Marshall * Peter Max * Frank McCourt * Anne Meara
* Robert Merrill * Arthur Miller * Stephanie Mills * Marianne Moore * Mary Tyler Moore
* Esai Morales * Cousin Brucie Morrow * Arnold Moss * Zero Mostel * Joseph Papirofsky * Joseph Papp
* Floyd Patterson * Beverly Pepper * S. J. Perelman * Rosie Perez * The Persuasions
* Noel W. Pointer, Sr.

* Martha Raye * Sal Richards * The Ritz Brothers * Joen Rivers * Max Roach * Lucille Roberts
* Jackie Robinson * Mickey Rooney * Stanley Ralph Ross* John Saxon * Jack Scalia * Neil Sedaka
* Maurice Sendak * Roger Sessions * Ben Shahn * Judge Judy Sheindlin * Beverly Sills * Phil Silvers
* Neil Simon * Betty Smith * Jimmy Smits * Paul Sorvino * Barbara Stanwyck * John Steptoe
* Connie Stevens * Jerry Stiller * Barbra Streisand


* Irving Thalberg * Gene Tierney * Marisa Tomei * George Tooker * Joe Torre * Richard Tucker
* John Turturro * Brenda Vaccaro * Ben Vereen * Abe Vigoda * Joe Viterelli * Eli Wallach
* Harry Warren * Randy Weston * Mae West * Walt Whitman * Lenny Wilkens * Shelley Winters
* Lillias White * Henny Youngman

The Brooklyn Borough President'sweb page http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/index.htm