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The Brooklyn Collection presents a selection of resources on Canarsie, a neighborhood named after Brooklyn's first residents - the Canarsies.
Brooklyn Community District 18
New York City Department of City Planning's profile for Community District 18, which includes Canarsie.
Canarsie Courier
Website for Canarsie's local paper.
Community Health Profiles: Canarsie and Flatlands
The Department of Health's report on health statistics and information for Canarsie and Flatlands.
If You're Thinking of Living In: Canarsie
A neighborhood profile of Canarsie, from the New York Times feature.
Brooklyn Eagle, October 23, 1887
Brooklyn Eagle, May 9, 1892
Brooklyn Eagle, April 14, 1883
Brooklyn Eagle, August 17, 1878
Brooklyn Eagle, April 2, 1889
Brooklyn Eagle, March 6, 1881
Danger and dispossession : the making of middle America in Canarsie, 1960-1976
Jonathan Rieder
Jonathan Rieder's Yale thesis about Canarsie's changing demographics.
Canarsie : the Jews and Italians of Brooklyn against liberalism
Jonathan Rieder
Rieder explains how this middle-income, ethnic community rebelled against desegragation and embraced Reagan Republicanism.
Canarsie place-names
Pearl G. Minsky
Pearl G. Minsky's Brooklyn College thesis explains the places in Canarsie and how they were named.
Lights out
Jason Starr
Two all-star athletes from Canarsie that took very different paths after high school are reunited.
The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn c.2004
Kenneth Jackson and John Manbeck
An invaluable introduction to Brooklyn’s many neighborhoods, with an illustrated chapter on each, including Canarsie. Includes a map, a neighborhood profile and neighborhood facts.
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