Brownsville, NYC

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a documentery from 1981.

Nice one.

[DavidKehler]

Brownsville-once know as the" Fistic incubator of Brooklyn"
Bummy Davis came from there.
Don't believe it ? then check out this article from 1951.

https://brighteningglance.org/brownsville-bum.html

The article mentions that Bummy use to train at the gym on the corner of Georgia and Livonia.
what are (or were) the oldest "A.C"s (Athletic Clubs or Boxing gymnasiums in Brownsville ?
(and what is at those locations now ?)

Davis trained in Willie Beecher's gym, which was at the corner of Georgia Avenue and Livonia Avenue.

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-1973-

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“Brownsville? Is that something Eddie ate?” - Michael Spinks

[DavidKehler]

In 1949, "Brooklyn Eagle" columnist Tommy Holmes published a list of boxers from the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, and the following guys mentioned in that article have not previously been listed in this BoxRec thread. Almost all of these boxers were Jewish, and I believe that all of the guys mentioned in the Tommy Holmes article were Caucasian. I've alphabetized the names and added the BoxRec ID number for each guy. Tommy Holmes' article appeared in the February 2, 1949, edition of the "Brooklyn Eagle"--then a daily newspaper--on page 21.

Mickey Aaronson (#065611)
Archie Bell (#010084)
Nat Blum (#107700)
Lew Chester (#056633)
Al Ciullo (#061708)
Jackie Cohen (#050047)
Henry Cooper (#016171)
Davey Crawford (#012795)
Johnny Dell (#012835)
Marvin Dick (#109625)
Davey Feld (#046599)
Lew Feldman (#009600)
Marty Fox (#040210)
Lew Franklin (#054221)
Harry Galfund (#057280)
Harry Ginsberg (#043927)
George Goldberg (#010446)
"Midget" Lew Goldberg (#041079)
Marty Goldman (#011947)
Harold Green (#010248)
George Kaplan (#037594)
Paul Klang (#063724)
Artie Levine (#013083)
Mary Marino (#045281)
Al McCoy (#010530) (World Middleweight Champion, 1914-1917)
Charley "Red" Miller (#120127)
Curley Nichols (#012781)
Johnny Pincus (#054107)
Nat Pincus (#051457)
Izzy Redman (#045791)
Morris Reif (#029592)
Solly Ritz (#010122)
Dave Rosenberg (#031731) (Recognized as World Middleweight Champion by New York boxing commission, 1922)
Marty Roth (#106295)
Lou Schwartz (#011776)
Sid Silas (#059952)
Joey Silvers (#056026)
Marty Silvers (#060280)
Pal Silvers (#011942)
George Small (#011080)
Jackie Snyder (#050450)
Harry Wallach (#053080)

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Did Floyd Patterson ever live in or close to Brownsville ?
He lived in about six or seven cold-water flats in Brooklyn
when he was growing up.
in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Including address's at

Lexington Avenue
St. Andrews Place
Macon street
Howard Avenue.
he shined shoes at the corner of Fulton and Kingston Avenue.

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[Stevieaber]

Blackwood, a Welsh village in the valleys.

Joe Calzaghe
Robbie Regan
Nathan Cleverly
Gavin Rees

Less than 10,000 people live there, also for music fans, The Manic Street Preachers are from Blackwood too.

Merthyr Tydfill also was the birthplace of Jimmy Wilde, in addition to Eddie Thomas, Johnny Owen, and Howard Winstone.

Gavin Gwynne too

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makes you think what became of all the others that Mike Tyson hung out with there on Amboy Street back in the 1970's/early1980's.
people in his book such as

Bug
Haitian Ron
Barkim (who lived in his building and taught him to rob and steal,later shot and killed after a dice game in 1981)
Curtis
Wise (a Police Athletic club boxer who taught Tyson the "Ali shuffle" after he knocked a muth-f*cka out)
Albert ( whom Mike Tyson once he won HW champonship finaced his crack enterprise, later shot and killed in 1989)
Gary Flowers (the dude who tor the head of Tyson's pigeon and then rubbed it onto him)
Nicky ( not a friend but someone who saw Tyson in his neighbourhood and pointed a shot-gun at his crotch and said to him if he ever saw him again there , he was gonna blow Tyson's b*lls off with it)
Darryl "Homicide" Baum aka "Shorty Love" aka Hommo (shot to deth in 2000 in Brooklyn NY age 34)
App
Buck
Bub
Duran (not Roberto)
Dave Malone

check out this article

https://nymag.com/news/features/mike-tyson-2013-10/

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yeh, whenever I hear of Brownsville NYC, Al "Bummy" Davis usually comes to mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Davis_(boxer)

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Cus D'Amato use to point this place out (from the car)whenever visitors visited Brownsville.

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Lyle Alzado moved out of Brownsville when he was about 10 however.

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