Brooklyn is a borough of New York City, co-extensive with Kings County. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, it shares a land border with the borough of Queens, at the western end of Long Island. It is the second-largest among the city’s five boroughs in area and largest in population.
About Brooklyn in brief
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City, co-extensive with Kings County. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, it shares a land border with the borough of Queens, at the western end of Long Island. It is the second-largest among the city’s five boroughs in area and largest in population. 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. Since the 2010s, Brooklyn has evolved into a thriving hub of entrepreneurship, high technology start-up firms, postmodern art and design. The name Brooklyn is derived from the original Dutch colonial name Breuckelen. The Dutch were first Europeans to settle Long Island’s western edge, which was then largely inhabited by the Lenape tribe, an Algonquian-speaking American Indian tribe. The settlement began in the 17th century as the small Dutch-founded town of \”Breukekelen\” on the East River shore of Long. Island, grew to be a sizeable city in the 19th century, and was consolidated with New. York City in 1898. The remaining rural areas of Kings County, and the largely rural area of Queens and Staten Island, form the modern City of Brooklyn. The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge connects it with Staten Island. Brooklyn’s official motto, displayed on the Borough seal and flag, is Eendraght Maeckt Maght, which translates from early modern Dutch as \”Unity makes strength\”.
The final name of Brooklyn, however, is the most accurate to its meaning. The oldest mention of the settlement in the Netherlands, is in a charter of 953 of Holy Roman Emperor Otto I, namely Broecklede. This is a composition of the two words broeck, meaning bog or marshland and lede, meaning small water stream specifically in peat areas. It was part of New Amsterdam’s West India Company, which obtained its charter in 1653. The original colony’s capital was New Amsterdam, across the East river from the Netherlands; it was called Newland. The colony lost its little time in the 1650s when it was taken over by the Dutch West Indian Company, and its capital was moved to New Amsterdam in 1660. The city’s name was changed to Brooklyn in 1663, and it became part of the New Netherland Company. It has been called Brooklyn since 1663 and is now known as the Brooklyn borough. The borough’s name comes from the name of the Dutch colonial town of Breukkelen, which means ‘broken land’ or ‘broke land’ in Dutch. Brooklyn was an independent incorporated city 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 to form themodern City of New New York, surrounding Upper New York Bay with five constituent boroughs.
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