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 (/ËbrÊklÉ¨n/) is the most populous of New York City 's five boroughs, with a Census-estimated 2,621,793 people in 2014. It is geographically adjacent to the borough of Queens at the western end of Long Island. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, the most populous county in the State of New York and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, after New York County (Manhattan).