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Welcome to Brooklyn, New York.
Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough at 2.5 million people. The home of Coney Island, Prospect Park, and numerous museums and attractions, Brooklyn itself is an American icon and a New York gem. Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City. With about 2.5 million inhabitants, it would be the fourth largest city in the United States all by itself, were it a city. An independent city prior to 1898, Brooklyn developed out of the small Dutch-founded town of "Breuckelen" on the East River shore, named after Breukelen in the Netherlands.
Brooklyn has the largest population of the city's five boroughs. Among its manufactures are machinery, textiles, paper products, and chemicals; it is also a center of foreign and domestic commerce and has extensive waterfront facilities. The Brooklyn (1883), Manhattan, and Williamsburg bridges span the East River, connecting Brooklyn with Manhattan; beneath the river are the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel (vehicular) and subway tunnels. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge connects the borough with Staten Island.
Brooklyn is located in the westernmost part of Long Island. It shares its only land boundary with Queens to the northeast. This boundary is defined in its westernmost section by Newtown Creek, crossed by Kosciusko Bridge and Pulaski Bridge, which flows into the East River.
Following the waterfront south and then counterclockwise from Newtown Creek, the lower East River forms the northern coast of Brooklyn, with connections to Manhattan at Williamsburg Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. The western coast lies on Upper New York Bay and features the Red Hook peninsula and the Erie Basin, home to a container port, and separated from Governors Island by Buttermilk Channel. South of this is Gowanus Bay, connected to the Gowanus Canal. At its westernmost section, Brooklyn is closest to Staten Island at the Narrows, and the two are connected there by the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, which separates Upper and Lower New York Bays. The southern coast includes the peninsula encompassing Coney Island and Brighton Beach. The southeastern coast lies on island-filled Jamaica Bay and is connected to Rockaway by the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge, named after the Brooklyn Dodgers' first baseman who made his home in the borough.
Among educational institutions in the borough are Brooklyn College of the City Univ. of New York, Polytechnic Institute of New York, Pratt Institute, St. Joseph's College, and Long Island Univ. Near Prospect Park, scene of fighting in the American Revolution, is the main building of the Brooklyn Public Library. Nearby are the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the renowned, innovative Brooklyn Academy of Music.
In the "City of Churches," the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, where Henry Ward Beecher preached, is perhaps best known. Other points of interest include Coney Island, with its beach, amusement park, and New York Aquarium; Green-Wood Cemetery; and the Lefferts Homestead. Fort Hamilton overlooks the Narrows of New York Bay. Marine Park and parts of Jamaica Bay are included in Gateway National Recreation Area.
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Local daily news in Brooklyn:
Brooklyn Residents Reminded to Recycle Old Cell Phones at Spring Electronics Recycling Event, May 18
"HopeLine was created more than 10 years ago as a means for Verizon Wireless to put its products and services to work to help survivors of domestic violence and help the environment at the same time" Sanitation Commissioner John J. Doherty is reminding Staten Island residents that the New York City Department of Sanitation's Bureau of Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling is teaming up with Verizon Wireless ... via KVOA-TV Tucson
Palestinian-Americans mark 60 years displaced
"The Palestinians are Israel's indigenous population, and they're there to stay - and the Jews are there to stay" Supporters of a Palestinian state attend a rally marking 60 years of Palestinian displacement since Israel was founded, Friday, May 16, 2008 at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in New York. via Buffalo News
Review: 'Hospital' by Julie Salamon
"To work with doctors who walk around believing that if one of them gets struck by lightning it's the other one's fault, it's shocking." HOSPITAL: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids, by Julie Salamon. Penguin Press, 363pp., $25.95. Walk into any hospital, and you immediately join the cast of thousands of dramas. Behind every door lurk birth, death and all the crises in between. A hospital is a stage where acts of anger, frustration and tears play out daily alongside moments of relief and joy. When the hospital is huge, when it sits in Brooklyn, when it is surrounded by waves of immigrants, when 67 languages are spoken there, when its emergency room is always packed, the potential for drama rises exponentially. Not to mention the likelihood of a first-rate book that manages to encompass this lively spectacle. Read more
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