East New York, Brooklyn public assistance (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families [TANF], Home Relief, Supplemental Security Income, and Medicaid). During the 1960s, East New York transitioned from being predominately Jewish and Italian to being predominately African American and Puerto Rican. However, now East New York is more diversified, with large African American, Puerto Rican, Dominican, West Indian, and South Asian populations. Due to gentrification of other Brooklyn neighborhoods, closer to Downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan, such as Bushwick and Bed-Stuy, East New York now has one of the fastest growing Black, Latino, and Asian populations in the city. East New York consists of mixed properties
Culture of Brooklyn the borough, flocking to world-class cinemas like BAM. After Radio City Music Hall, Brooklyn Technical High School houses the second largest auditorium in New York City with seating capacity of over 3,000. Brooklyn has been the setting for a variety of television shows, including the 1950s era "Honeymooners" starring Jackie Gleason, and the 1970s sitcom, "Welcome Back, Kotter", starring Gabe Kaplan. In the 1980s, "The Cosby Show" was set in a Brooklyn Heights brownstone. In the 1990s, "Brooklyn Bridge" (about a Jewish American family living in Brooklyn in the middle 1950s) starring Marion Ross aired on CBS. There are a