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  • proper noun A neighborhood in Brooklyn.

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Examples

  • Plant Pinot Noir anywhere – in Canarsie, in Wasilla, in Helsinki – if it bears fruit, that fruit is Pinot Noir.

    Of Bicyclettes, terroir, typicité: Over on HuffPo… | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010

  • The primary research found in Alan Crawford's "Thunder on the Right," David Frum's "How We Got Here," Jack Germond and Jules Witcover's "Blue Smoke and Mirrors," and issue-specific books like Jonathan Rieder's classic account of the racial resentment of white ethnics, "Canarsie," form the backbone of Mr. Sandbrook's account.

    When the Tea Party Began Michael C. Moynihan 2011

  • "Canarsie" is a phonetic interpretation of a word in the Lenape language for "fenced land" or

    WN.com - Financial News 2010

  • As I just told my buddy Brad Gietter of Moet Hennessey, when I was a kid growing up in the thirties in a tough New York neighborhood, my father told me of a relative who was a Colonel in the very small, struggling U.S. Army stationed at Fort Hamilton in Canarsie, Brooklyn.

    Jay Weston: I Went to a Polo Match on Sunday, And Loved It! Jay Weston 2011

  • At the moment, the district forms a sideways V that begins in the Flatlands and Canarsie, takes in East New York, then turns west toward Brownsville, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene and Downtown Brooklyn.

    Primary Set for Towns Seat Andrew Grossman 2011

  • Other than for commerical & infrastructure reasons, why would Canarsie and the West Village need to be geograpically proximate?

    Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Missing the Trees 2009

  • During the 1700's, British soldiers established a horse-racing track in current-day Canarsie, he said.

    The Horses Will Jump InBrooklyn Sophia Hollander 2011

  • Williams represents the 45th Council District, which covers Flatbush, East Flatbush, Flatlands and parts of Midwood and Canarsie.

    Jumaane D. Williams: A Call to Action: Support Occupy Wall Street Jumaane D. Williams 2011

  • Athletes who played high school football in the five boroughs and went on to be drafted is a rarity—there's Leon Williams, who played at Brooklyn's Canarsie and later the University of Miami, who was drafted in the fourth round in 2006.

    Syracuse's Odd Recruiting Ground: N.Y.C. Kevin Clark 2011

  • Williams represents the 45th Council District, which covers Flatbush, East Flatbush, Flatlands, and parts of Midwood and Canarsie.

    Jumaane D. Williams: The Human Price of Our Budget Jumaane D. Williams 2011

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