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Brooklyn is a borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelve original counties established under British rule in 1683 in the then Province of New York.
Apr 15, 2021 · When the British took over, they named the collection of towns around Breukelen Kings County after King Charles II and anglicized the name of Breukelen to Brooklyn.
The Bronx is named after Jonas Bronck, who settled in the area in 1639. Brooklyn refers to Breukelen, the Dutch village in the Netherlands. Queens was named after Queen Catherine of Braganza, wife of King Charles II of England (1630-1685).
Jun 9, 2017 · The Dutch named the settlement after Breukelen, a town in the Netherlands. It’s a pretty tiny town, with a population of only 14,000 people, so kind of wild when you think about what it’s New York counterpart was turned into.
Sep 4, 2009 · What about Brooklyn, named after the Dutch town of Breuckelen, now spelled as Breukelen, between Amsterdam and Utrecht … “Bro-ke-lyn,” she said with a puckered lilt we found difficult to ...
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4 days ago · Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs of New York City, southwestern Long Island, southeastern New York state, U.S., coextensive with Kings county. It is separated from Manhattan by the East River and is bordered by the Upper and Lower New York bays (west), the Atlantic Ocean (south), and the borough of Queens (north and east).
Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. An independent city until its consolidation into New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with nearly 2.5 million residents.
