The 100 Greatest Brooklynites of All Time: 60 to 51
When you think individually of the cultural luminaries who called no. 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn Heights home, you don’t really think “Brooklynite.” But as a household, the likes of Paul and Jane Bowles, Benjamin Britten, W.H. Auden, Gypsy Rose Lee and Carson McCullers lent a certain cultural greatness to our fair borough, arguing about Jung and gin deep into the night, foreshadowing creative gentrification by a good half-century.