Norma Ryan News Today

Norma Ryan wasn’t just from Brownsville. She was Brownsville. Ask anyone who knew her and they’ll tell you Ryan was an unstoppable force when it came to the borough, its history and its people. On April 30, Ryan, who was 92, passed away. Although she was living in Florida, Ryan’s heart was never far from […]

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When the original Brownsville General Hospital opened on Church Street in 1914, neither Alaska nor Hawaii were part of the United States.

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“The period of time for Brownsville Jews came and went. But what we can do is revive the memory." — Eric Lidji

A community-development corporation with a goal to revitalize Brownsville has been struggling financially even though a number of successes.