Bands were associated with place names, but the colonists thought their names represented different tribes. The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle Long Island's western edge, which was then largely inhabited by the Lenape, an Algonquian-speaking American Indian tribe often referred to in European documents by a variation of the place name " Canarsie". The settlement began in the 17th century as the small Dutch-founded town of "Breuckelen" on the East River shore of Long Island, grew to be a sizeable city in the 19th century and was consolidated in 1898 with New York City (then confined to Manhattan and the Bronx), the remaining rural areas of Kings County, and the largely rural areas of Queens and Staten Island, to form the modern City of New York.Ĭolonial era New Netherland The history of European settlement in Brooklyn spans more than 350 years. There have been so many variations of the name that its origin has been debated some have claimed breuckelen means "broken land." The final name of Brooklyn, however, is the most accurate to its meaning. The New Amsterdam settlement of Breuckelen also went through many spelling variations, including Breucklyn, Breuckland, Brucklyn, Broucklyn, Brookland, Brockland, Brocklin, and Brookline/Brook-line. Over the past two millennia, the name of the ancient town in Holland has been Bracola, Broccke, Brocckede, Broiclede, Brocklandia, Broekclen, Broikelen, Breuckelen, and finally Breukelen. Breuckelen in the American continent was established in 1646, and the name first appeared in print in 1663. This is a composition of the two words broeck, meaning bog or marshland and lede, meaning small (dug) water stream specifically in peat areas. The oldest mention of the settlement in the Netherlands, is in a charter of 953 of Holy Roman Emperor Otto I, namely Broecklede. The name Brooklyn is derived from the original Dutch town of Breukelen. 13 Partnerships with districts of foreign cities.Since the 2010s, Brooklyn has evolved into a thriving hub of entrepreneurship, high technology start-up firms, postmodern art and design. Some new developments are required to include affordable housing units. In the first decades of the 21st century, Brooklyn has experienced a renaissance as a destination for hipsters, with concomitant gentrification, dramatic house price increases, and a decrease in housing affordability. 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." Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves. The borough continues, however, to maintain a distinct culture. With a land area of 70.82 square miles (183.4 km 2) and a water area of 26 square miles (67 km 2), Kings County is the state of New York's fourth-smallest county by land area and third-smallest by total area.īrooklyn 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 with other cities, towns, and counties, to form the modern City of New York, surrounding the Upper New York Bay with five constituent boroughs. Brooklyn has several bridge and tunnel connections to the borough of Manhattan across the East River and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge connects it with Staten Island. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, it is located on the western end of Long Island and shares a land border with the borough of Queens.
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. Brooklyn is also New York City's most populous borough, with 2,736,074 residents in 2020. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, behind New York County ( Manhattan). Brooklyn ( / ˈ b r ʊ k l ɪ n/) is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S.
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