My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town. – Herbie Mann
Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn. – Hakeem Jeffries
I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house. – Jay-Z
Books set in Brooklyn and L.A. are often about people who are rootless, who want to go somewhere else. In the Midwest, though, the stories are about people who want to stay where they are – who like where they are. – John Sandford
Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America. – Isaac Mizrahi
To those like Mitt Romney who want to take us backwards, let’s send a strong message in November: as we say in Brooklyn, ‘Fuhgeddaboutit.’ – Chuck Schumer
I’m torn between wanting to connect with what I grew up with and what’s available, living in Brooklyn. I don’t have a grimy supermarket that decapitates frogs’ heads nearby. – Awkwafina
Manhattan is like Beverly Hills. And the soul of New York has moved to Brooklyn, where everything new and exciting seems to be. – Alec Baldwin
In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag to bring the leftovers home. – Alek Wek
I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs. – Connie Stevens
It’s a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens. – Anthony Weiner
I go to Franny’s in Brooklyn a lot. It’s just a casual Italian place, but I could eat there every day. – Daniel Humm
It has not been easy for me. And, you know, I started off in Brooklyn. My father gave me a small loan of a million dollars. – Donald Trump
In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics – all with their own markets. – Daniel Boulud
Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx – and miracles began to happen. – David Wilkerson
Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in ’99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn. – Curt Weldon
I live in Brooklyn. I moved here 14 years ago for the cheap rent. It was a little embarrassing because I was raised in Manhattan, and so I was a bit of a snob about the other boroughs. – Colson Whitehead
I’m just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable. – Michael Musto
I saw all those great ’70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie. – Michael De Luca