About Institute of Design and Construction

Institute of Design and Construction (IDC), was a non-profit technical college, now defunct, located in Brooklyn, NY. It was founded in 1947 by Vito P. Battista, R.A., a first generation Italian-American architect, civic leader and zealot of the New York State Assembly.

IDC offered Associate degrees in Building Construction Technology and Architectural Design Technology as without difficulty as a variety of continuing and professional education courses. It was registered by the New York State Department of Education, but due to declining student enrollment and accreditation concerns by the New York State Board of Regents, IDC voluntarily ceased operations in July 2015.

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Brooklyn (/ˈbrʊklɪn/) is a borough of New York City, coextensive behind Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. It is the most populous county in the state, the second-most densely populated county in the United States, and New York City’s most populous borough, with an estimated 2,648,403 residents in 2020. If each borough were ranked as a city, Brooklyn would rank as the third-most populous in the U.S., after Los Angeles and Chicago.

Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, it shares a estate border like the borough of Queens, at the western fade away of Long Island. Brooklyn has several bridge and tunnel connections to the borough of Manhattan across the East River, and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge connects it in imitation of Staten Island. With a land Place of 70.82 square miles (183.4 km2) and a water Place of 26 square miles (67 km2), Kings County is New York state’s fourth-smallest county by land area, and third-smallest by total area.

Brooklyn was an independent incorporated city (and before an authorized village and town within the provisions of the New York State Constitution) until January 1, 1898, when, after a long political trouble and public relations fight during the 1890s, according to the additional Municipal Charter of “Greater New York”, Brooklyn was consolidated with other cities, towns, and counties, to form the protester City of New York, surrounding the Upper New York Bay when five constituent boroughs. The borough continues, however, to preserve a sure culture. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves. Brooklyn’s official motto, displayed on the Borough seal and flag, is Eendraght Maeckt Maght, which translates from early liberal Dutch as “Unity makes strength”.

In the first decades of the 21st century, Brooklyn has experienced a renaissance as a destination for hipsters, with concomitant gentrification, dramatic home price increases, and a decrease in housing affordability. Since the 2010s, Brooklyn has evolved into a well-off hub of entrepreneurship, high technology start-up firms, postmodern art and design.