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Brooklyn

New York City borough, named for village founded there 1646 and named for Dutch township of Breukelen near Utrecht; from Old High German bruoh "moor, marshland;" spelling of U.S. place name influenced by brook (n.), which probably is distantly related.\n

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Brooklyn, OH -- U.S. city in Ohio
Population (2000): 11586
Housing Units (2000): 5521
Land area (2000): 4.284063 sq. miles (11.095671 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.017968 sq. miles (0.046536 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.302031 sq. miles (11.142207 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09246
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 41.435357 N, 81.744457 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 44144
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Brooklyn, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 676
Housing Units (2000): 346
Land area (2000): 0.842973 sq. miles (2.183289 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.842973 sq. miles (2.183289 sq. km)
FIPS code: 08667
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 38.656800 N, 90.165412 W
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Brooklyn, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
Population (2000): 1545
Housing Units (2000): 577
Land area (2000): 0.776953 sq. miles (2.012300 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.019226 sq. miles (0.049796 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.796179 sq. miles (2.062096 sq. km)
FIPS code: 08038
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 39.541391 N, 86.370021 W
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Brooklyn, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 1367
Housing Units (2000): 639
Land area (2000): 1.196165 sq. miles (3.098053 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.196165 sq. miles (3.098053 sq. km)
FIPS code: 08695
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.732093 N, 92.443531 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 52211
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Brooklyn, MI -- U.S. village in Michigan
Population (2000): 1176
Housing Units (2000): 534
Land area (2000): 1.004174 sq. miles (2.600799 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.011604 sq. miles (0.030053 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.015778 sq. miles (2.630852 sq. km)
FIPS code: 11000
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 42.106490 N, 84.247276 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 49230
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Brooklyn, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 916
Housing Units (2000): 351
Land area (2000): 1.093797 sq. miles (2.832921 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.093797 sq. miles (2.832921 sq. km)
FIPS code: 10075
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 42.853600 N, 89.369689 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 53521
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Wikipedia
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with a Census-estimated 2,636,735 residents in 2015. It is geographically adjacent to the borough of Queens at the southwestern end of Long Island. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, the most populous county in the U.S. state of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, after the county of New York (which is coextensive with the borough of Manhattan).

With a land area of and water area of , Kings County is New York's fourth-smallest county by land area and third-smallest by total area, though it is the second-largest among the city's five boroughs. Today, if each of the five boroughs was a separate city, Brooklyn would rank as the third most populous city in the U.S., behind Los Angeles and Chicago.

Brooklyn was an independent incorporated city (and previously an authorized village and town within the provisions of the New York State Constitution), until January 1, 1898, when, after a long political campaign and public relations battle during the 1890s, according to the new Municipal Charter of "Greater New York," Brooklyn was consolidated with the other cities, boroughs, and counties to form the modern "City of New York" surrounding the Upper New York Bay with five constituent boroughs. The borough continues, however, to maintain a distinct culture. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves. Brooklyn's official motto, displayed on the Borough seal and flag, is , which translates from early modern Dutch to " Unity makes strength".

In the first decades of the 21st century, Brooklyn has experienced a renaissance as an avant garde destination for hipsters, with concomitant gentrification, dramatic house price increases, and a decrease in housing affordability. Since 2010, Brooklyn has evolved into a thriving hub of entrepreneurship and high technology startup firms, and of postmodern art and design.

Brooklyn (disambiguation)

Brooklyn, also Kings County, is a borough of New York City, New York.

Brooklyn may also refer to:

Brooklyn (musical)

Brooklyn the Musical is a musical with a book, lyrics, and music by Mark Schoenfeld and Barri McPherson.

Brooklyn (New Zealand electorate)

Brooklyn was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate in Wellington city from 1946 to 1954. It was represented by two prominent members of the Labour Party: Peter Fraser, who was Prime Minister (1940–1949), and Arnold Nordmeyer, who was later Minister of Finance (1957–1960).

Brooklyn (given name)

Brooklyn is a given name that has increased in popularity for girls in the United States and Canada in recent years. It has occasionally been used as a name in honor of Brooklyn, the New York City borough, but is usually regarded as simply a combination of the names Brook or Brooke, a name derived from an English surname meaning "one who lives near a brook" and the suffix -lyn, which is an element in other popular contemporary names in the United States such as Kaitlyn.

The name was the 26th most popular name for baby girls in the United States in 2014 and was the 16th most popular name for baby girls born in British Columbia, Canada in 2006. Spelling variants include, but are not limited to, Brook Lynn, Brooke Lynn, Brookelynn, Brookelynne, Brooklynn and Brooklynne.

Brooklyn (cycling team)

Brooklyn Chewing Gum were an Italian cycling team during the 1970s and early 80s. It was a classics team and featured many of the great classic riders such as Roger de Vlaeminck, who won four Paris–Roubaix.

A documentary called A Sunday in Hell features the team during the 1976 Paris–Roubaix.

The 'Brooklyn' hat worn by Spike Lee as Mars Blackmon in She's Gotta Have It and early Nike Air Jordan commercials referred to the Italian cycling team, not the New York borough of the same name.

Category:Cycling teams based in Italy Category:Defunct cycling teams Category:Sports clubs established in 1973 Category:Sports clubs disestablished in 1977

Brooklyn (novel)

Brooklyn is a 2009 novel by Irish author Colm Tóibín. It won the 2009 Costa Novel Award, was shortlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize. In 2012, The Observer named it as one of "The 10 best historical novels".

Brooklyn (Jacksonville)

Brooklyn is a neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida, considered part of Downtown. Originally a residential suburb, commercial uses became prominent during the 20th century, particularly along the St. Johns River and Riverside Avenue, and the area became included in Jacksonville's central business district. In the 21st century, it has become the site of mixed-use developments.

Brooklyn (film)

Brooklyn is a 2015 Irish- British- Canadian romantic drama film directed by John Crowley and written by Nick Hornby, based on Colm Tóibín's novel of the same name. The film stars Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, and Julie Walters. Set in 1951 and 1952, the film tells the story of a young Irish woman's immigration to Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within them for her.

Brooklyn premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim. It opened in limited release on 4 November 2015 in the United States and the UK on 6 November 2015. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Brooklyn (Waterbury)

Brooklyn is a section/neighborhood of the city of Waterbury, Connecticut. Its name is derived from immigrants who moved up the road from Brooklyn in New York City. The area lies southwest of I-84 and west of route 8, nestled between the sections of Town Plot and the South End. At its height, Brooklyn contained five grammar schools, three drug stores, three theaters, eight bakeries, two breweries, a library, a firehouse, a YMCA, and 22 taverns.

Brooklyn (cocktail)

The Brooklyn is one of five cocktails named for the boroughs of New York City, along with the Bronx, the Manhattan, the Queens and the Staten Island Ferry. It resembles a Manhattan, but with a specific type of bitters (several types of bitters can be used in a Manhattan) and the addition of Maraschino liqueur. It largely fell into obscurity after the end of Prohibition, but experienced a resurgence in the 1990s.

Usage examples of "brooklyn".

Southern Baptist Alabamans, branched out to the predominantly black neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

But by the time he got there the bees had been collected by a Brooklyn beekeeper summoned by the police.

I have read about Brooklyn I was lead to believe that Brooklynites had a special pronunciation of English all their own.

David Zielinsky walked out of the Theatrical and onto Short Vincent, left onto East Sixth, right onto Euclid Avenue, heading to Terminal Tower, where he intended to take the streetcar home, heave rubber-banded newspapers onto stoops all over Old Brooklyn, eat the dinner Aunt Betty would serve, and after that meet up with his buddies and see if that redheaded lifeguard was still over at Brookside, if she even existed, and be home by dark.

This Frankie Ferocious comes from over in Brooklyn, where he is considered a rising citizen in many respects, and by no means a guy to give hot foots to, especially as Frankie Ferocious has no sense of humor whatever.

Mouw was just happy that the Title III court applications he had made to bug Ruggiero, Castellano and others were not in Manhattan, but in the Eastern District of New York, which embraced Brooklyn and Queens.

The fare to the Jersey shore is three cents, to Brooklyn two, and to Harlem and Staten Island ten cents.

As he checked out of Sanguis to take the sub-way to Ebbets Field over in Brooklyn, Tommy began to wonder.

One weekend they went to see Sandy Koufax pitch the Brooklyn Dodgers to victory over the Giants at Ebbets Field.

Nearly forty years ago, while teaching the elements of physiology at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, it occurred to me to illustrate the statements of textbooks by a repetition of such simple experiments as had come before my own eyes.

Atlantic Club of Brooklyn, and its success led to the arrangement of a series of games between selected nines of the New York and Brooklyn Clubs in 1858.

In these encounters New York proved victorious, winning the first and third games by the respective scores of 22 to 18, and 29 to 18, while Brooklyn won the second contest by 29 to 8.

Unions of Morrisiana, by defeating the Atlantics in two out of three games in the latter part of the season of 1867, became entitled to the nominal championship, which during the next two seasons was shifted back and forth between the leading clubs of New York and Brooklyn.

The Eckford Club of Brooklyn entered the Association about the middle of the season, but its games were not counted.

Perhaps George the Fourth would have died then and there, perished of cholera infantum at the age of half an hour, never been heard of again except on a tablet in the imaginary cathedral on Brooklyn Bridge .