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Brooklyn, the "Borough of Homes and Churches," is one of the five boroughs of . It used to be a separate city, and still feels much like one.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Coney Island and Brighton Beach and Southwest Brooklyn.

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are in Brooklyn. In addition to those two neighborhoods, this article covers Manhattan Beach, Gravesend, and Sheepshead Bay.

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is a part of Brooklyn, that encompasses the neighborhoods of Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Dyker Heights, Fort Hamilton, Kensington, Parkville, and Sunset Park.

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is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, as little as one subway stop away from Manhattan, and is bordered to the north by Greenpoint, to the east by Bushwick and to the south by Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Downtown Brooklyn and Prospect Park.

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is in Brooklyn. In addition to the downtown area proper, it includes Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and the Navy Yard.

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is in Brooklyn. It includes its namesake park, plus the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, and South.

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are in Brooklyn. In addition to the two aforementioned neighborhoods, this travel guide covers Crown Heights, Lefferts Gardens, Brownsville, East Flatbush, and Midwood.

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encompasses Cypress Hills, East New York, Canarsie, Bergen Beach, Flatlands, Mill Basin, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach, and Barren Island.

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is in Brooklyn. In addition to , this travel guide also covers Carroll Gardens.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Brooklyn Bridge and Freedom Tower.

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The is a cable-stayed suspension bridge in , spanning the between the boroughs of and Brooklyn. Opened on May 24, 1883, the was the first fixed crossing of the East River.

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One World Trade Center, also known as One WTC and as the , is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in , New York City.

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The is a 792-foot-tall residential building and early skyscraper at 233 Broadway in the neighborhood of in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Financial District and Chinatown.

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The comprises the southern tip of , with the Hudson River on the west, the East River on the east, New York Harbor to the south, and Barclay Street on the north.

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's famous is a lively neighborhood, full of good values in restaurants and food shopping. Also on sale are cheap knockoffs of designer labels made in , and all sorts of trinkets and toys.

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A former industrial district in Lower , , short for "Triangle Below Canal Street", has transformed from artist community to upscale residential district in the 21st century.

Brooklyn

Latitude
40.6928° or 40° 41′ 34″ north
Longitude
-73.9903° or 73° 59′ 25″ west
Population
2,740,000
Elevation
49 feet (15 metres)
Abbreviation
“BK”
United Nations Location Code
US BKU
Open location code
87G8M2V5+4V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158857828
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
5110302
Wiki­data ID
Q18419
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Brooklyn” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Brooklyn, New York”
  • Afrikaans: “Brooklyn”
  • Albanian: “Brooklyn”
  • Arabic: “بروكلين، نيويورك”
  • Arabic: “بروكلين”
  • Armenian: “Բրուքլին”
  • Assamese: “ব্ৰুকলিন”
  • Asturian: “Brooklyn”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bruklin”
  • Balinese: “Brooklyn”
  • Basque: “Brooklyn”
  • Bavarian: “Brooklyn”
  • Belarusian: “Бруклін”
  • Bengali: “ব্রুকলিন”
  • Bishnupriya: “কিংস কাউন্টি, নিউ ইয়র্ক”
  • Bishnupriya: “কিংস কাউন্টি”
  • Bosnian: “Brooklyn”
  • Breton: “Brooklyn”
  • Bulgarian: “Бруклин”
  • Catalan: “Brooklyn”
  • Cebuano: “Brooklyn”
  • Central Kurdish: “بڕۆکلین”
  • Chechen: “Бруклин”
  • Chinese: “Brooklyn”
  • Chinese: “布碌崙”
  • Chinese: “布魯克林”
  • Chinese: “布魯克林區”
  • Chinese: “布鲁克林区”
  • Chinese: “紐約布魯克林”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bruklin”
  • Croatian: “Brooklyn, New York”
  • Croatian: “Brooklyn”
  • Czech: “Brooklyn”
  • Danish: “Brooklyn”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Brooklyn”
  • Dutch: “Brooklyn”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бруклин”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بروكلين”
  • Esperanto: “Broklino”
  • Estonian: “Brooklyn”
  • Faroese: “Brooklyn”
  • Finnish: “Brooklyn”
  • French: “Brooklyn”
  • Galician: “Brooklyn”
  • Georgian: “ბრუკლინი”
  • German: “Brooklyn”
  • Gilaki: “برۊکلين (نيۊیؤرک)”
  • Gilaki: “برۊکلين”
  • Greek: “Μπρόυκλιν, Νέα Υόρκη”
  • Greek: “Μπρούκλιν”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રુકલીન”
  • Haitian: “Bwouklin (Nouyòk)”
  • Haitian: “Bwouklin”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Brooklyn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pu-lû-khiet-lìm”
  • Hebrew: “ברוקלין, ניו יורק”
  • Hebrew: “ברוקלין, ניו-יורק”
  • Hebrew: “ברוקלין”
  • Hindi: “ब्रुकलीन”
  • Hungarian: “Brooklyn”
  • Icelandic: “Brooklyn”
  • Ido: “Brooklyn”
  • Iloko: “Brooklyn”
  • Inari Sami: “Brooklyn”
  • Indonesian: “Brooklyn, New York”
  • Indonesian: “Brooklyn”
  • Interlingua: “Brooklyn”
  • Irish: “Brooklyn”
  • Italian: “Brooklyn”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Bruklin”
  • Japanese: “ブルックリン”
  • Japanese: “ブルックリン区”
  • Javanese: “Brooklyn, New York”
  • Javanese: “Brooklyn”
  • Kazakh: “Бруклин”
  • Khmer: “ប៊្រុគ្លីន ទីក្រុងញូវយ៉ក”
  • Khmer: “ប៊្រុគ្លីន”
  • Kildin Sami: “Бруклин”
  • Kirghiz: “Бруклин”
  • Korean: “브루클린”
  • Kurdish: “Brooklyn”
  • Ladin: “Brooklyn”
  • Latin: “Brooklynium”
  • Latin: “Bruclinum”
  • Latin: “Comitatus Bruclinum”
  • Latvian: “Bruklina”
  • Lithuanian: “Bruklinas”
  • Low German: “Kings County”
  • Lule Sami: “Brooklyn”
  • Luxembourgish: “Brooklyn”
  • Macedonian: “Бруклин”
  • Malay: “Brooklyn”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്രൂക്ലിൻ”
  • Maltese: “Brooklyn”
  • Marathi: “ब्रुकलिन”
  • Marathi: “ब्रूकलिन”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bók-gì-lāng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Brooklyn”
  • Mingrelian: “ბრუკლინი”
  • N'Ko: “ߓߑߙߎߞߑߟߊ߲ߣ߸ ߣߌߦߥ ߦߐߙߞ”
  • N'Ko: “ߓߑߙߎߞߑߟߊ߲ߣ”
  • Nauru: “Brooklyn”
  • Northern Frisian: “Brooklyn”
  • Northern Sami: “Brooklyn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brooklyn”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brooklyn”
  • Norwegian: “Brooklyn”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Brooklyn”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Brocoland”
  • Ossetian: “Бруклин”
  • Persian: “بروکلین”
  • Pite Sami: “Brooklyn”
  • Polish: “Brooklyn”
  • Portuguese: “Brooklyn”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Kings”
  • Romanian: “Brooklyn, New York”
  • Romanian: “Brooklyn”
  • Russian: “Бруклин”
  • Scots: “Brooklyn”
  • Serbian: “Bruklin”
  • Serbian: “Бруклин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brooklyn”
  • Sicilian: “Brooklyn”
  • Sicilian: “Brucclinu”
  • Sicilian: “Brucculinu”
  • Skolt Sami: “Brooklyn”
  • Slovak: “Brooklyn”
  • Slovenian: “Brooklyn”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بروکلین”
  • Southern Sami: “Brooklyn”
  • Spanish: “Brooklyn (Nueva York)”
  • Spanish: “Brooklyn”
  • Swahili: “Brooklyn”
  • Swedish: “Brooklyn, New York”
  • Swedish: “Brooklyn”
  • Tagalog: “Brooklyn”
  • Tajik: “Бруклин”
  • Tamil: “புரூக்ளின்”
  • Tatar: “Бруклин”
  • Telugu: “బ్రూక్లిన్”
  • Thai: “บรุกลิน”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Brooklyn”
  • Turkish: “Brooklyn”
  • Ukrainian: “Бруклін”
  • Ume Sami: “Brooklyn”
  • Urdu: “بروکلن، نیویارک”
  • Urdu: “بروکلن”
  • Uzbek: “Bruklin”
  • Vietnamese: “Brooklyn, New York”
  • Vietnamese: “Brooklyn”
  • Vlax Romani: “Brooklyn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Brooklyn”
  • Welsh: “Brooklyn”
  • Western Armenian: “Պրուքլին”
  • Western Frisian: “Brooklyn”
  • Western Panjabi: “بروکلن”
  • Wu Chinese: “布鲁克林区”
  • Yakut: “Бруклин”
  • Yiddish: “ברוקלין, ניו יארק”
  • Yiddish: “ברוקלין”
  • Yoruba: “Brooklyn”
  • Yue Chinese: “布碌侖”
  • “Brooklyn”

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