Mark Wahlberg Facts. 1  He was the frontman of the band âMarky Mark and the Funky Bunchâ. 2  He is youngest in his family and have 8 siblings. 3  Mark is a distant relative of author Nathaniel Hawthorne on his momâs side. 4  During his youth, he had an encounter with Boston Police Department about 20 to 25 times as he developed an addiction to cocaine. 5  He ...ark Wahlberg Facts. 1  He was the frontman of the band âMarky Mark and the Funky Bunchâ. 2  He is youngest in his family and have 8 siblings. 3  Mark is a distant relative of author Nathaniel Hawthorne on his momâs side. 4  He is also distantly related to Celine Dion, Halle Berry and Madonna.
Bushwick, in northeast Brooklyn, is surrounded by Bedford-Stuyvesant on the west, Williamsburgh on the north, and Ridgewood to the northeast. Like many names in Brooklyn, âBushwickâ is derived from Dutch and means âtown in the woods.â Once a separate town in Kings County, it became a part of Brooklyn in 1869.
Brooklyn (its name as borough of the city of New York; it is also Kings County, a county of the state of New York), the Borough of Homes and Churches, is one of the five Boroughs of New York. It used to be and still feels much like a city in its own right, with approximately 2.5 million inhabitants.