Millions travel over one of the world's most famous bridges, the Brooklyn Bridge.

In 1646, the Village of Breuckelen was authorized by the Dutch West India Company and became the first municipality in what is now New York State (the predecessors of the Cities of Albany and New York were numbers two and three, respectively).

Brooklyn was one of the original six towns of Kings County, an
original county when the county/town system was established in 1683.

The streets in Brooklyn do not line up because each of the 2 cities
and 6 towns in Kings County were independent municipalities and
purposely decided to create street grids with different naming systems that did not line up with the adjoining city or town.
Red Hook area (South Brooklyn) was the southernmost part of the City of Brooklyn.

Brooklyn, with a population of 2,465,326, is home to 848,583 Blacks/African Americans, 185,094 Asians and Pacific Islanders, 4,494 American Indians and Native Alaskans, and 487,878 Hispanics.