22 Facts About Brooklyn NY

1. Brooklyn NY is the anglicized form of the Dutch word Breuckelen.

2. Brooklyn NY has approximately 2.5 million residents, which means if it were to be separated from the rest of New York City, Brooklyn would become the 4th most populous US city.

3. Brooklyn NY has smaller liberal arts institutions, such as Saint Joseph's College in Clinton Hill and Boricua College in Williamsburg.

4. Education in Brooklyn NY is provided by a vast number of public and private institutions.

5. Brooklyn NY was long a major shipping port, especially at the Brooklyn Army Terminal and Bush Terminal in Sunset Park.

6. Brooklyn NY has one of the most active recreational fishing fleets in the United States.

7. Brooklyn NY once had a National Football League team named the Brooklyn Lions in 1926, who played at Ebbets Field.

8. Brooklyn NY hosts the world-renowned Brooklyn NY Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and the second largest public art collection in the United States, housed in the Brooklyn Museum.

9. Brooklyn NY is attracting numerous high technology start-up companies, as Silicon Alley, the metonym for New York City's entrepreneurship ecosystem, has expanded from Lower Manhattan into Brooklyn.

10. Brooklyn NY has 18 of the city's 59 community districts, each served by an unpaid Community Board with advisory powers under the city's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure.

11. Brooklyn NY has 16 City Council members, the largest number of any of the five boroughs.

12. Brooklyn NY is home to many Russians and Ukrainians, who are mainly concentrated in the areas of Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay.

13. Brooklyn NY has an annual, celebrated Carnival in the tradition of pre-Lenten celebrations in the islands.

14. Brooklyn NY contains dozens of distinct neighborhoods representing many of the major culturally identified groups found within New York City.

15. Brooklyn NY has more women and girls, with 88.4 males for every 100 females.

16. In 2010, Brooklyn NY had some neighborhoods segregated based on race, ethnicity, and religion.

17. Brooklyn NY lies at the southwestern end of Long Island, and the borough's western border constitutes the island's western tip.

18. Brooklyn NY had reached its natural municipal boundaries at the ends of Kings County.

19. Brooklyn NY is referred to as a twin city of New York in the 1883 poem, "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus, which appears on a plaque inside the Statue of Liberty.

20. Since 2010, Brooklyn NY has evolved into a thriving hub of entrepreneurship and high technology startup firms, and of postmodern art and design.

21. Brooklyn NY has several bridge and tunnel connections to the borough of Manhattan across the East River, and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge connects Staten Island.

22. Brooklyn NY is the most populous borough of New York City, with an estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.