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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:
Best of Brooklyn Chinatown
New York's myriad Chinatowns cater to distinct crowds. In Manhattan, tourists assemble to snap pictures of ducks dangling in windows and snag cheap tchotchkes.
Robbery was motive for beating to death of NY Guyanese granddad
Ramnarine Matadin According to reports, Ramnarine Matadin, 58, who worked as a building superintendent in the upscale Park Slope section of Brooklyn, was drinking at a sports bar on 101 Ave in Queens when the barmen noticed that he was intoxicated and called the Royal Car & Limo Services for a cab to take the man home.
Man survives 625-volt zap after being shoved onto third rail
Andy Morris hit an electrocuted third rail after being shoved onto tracks during a drunken fight.
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