While most people know it as simply Brooklyn, this New York borough also goes by the name Kings County and the "Borough of Homes and Churches." Brooklyn is made of 66 neighborhoods and 170 subway stops.

An important Brooklyn resourceis it's over 30 miles of Shore Line. With so much water around, Brooklyn presents a mind numbing variety of water activities. From Industrial Deep Water Docks along the Harbor, to Wind Surfing at Plumb Beach.

It started small, back in 1794 Brooklyn was a small village comprised, largely, of 100 homes that were "chiefly along the shore or scattered without a plan". Located across the East River from Manhattan, Brooklyn was the portal through which food grown on Long Island passed to reach New York City.

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County. Kings County is the most populous county in New York State, as well as the second-most densely populated county in the United States. It is also New York City's most populous borough, with 2,736,074 residents in 2020.

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. If the borough of Brooklyn were a city on its own, it would be the fourth largest in the United States by population. Brooklyn Is Larger than Boston, Atlanta, Washington DC & Minneapolis Combined.

Residents were thrilled to get the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets proudly representing the borough in 2012. They play their home games at Barclays Center in Prospect Heights and are a welcome addition to Brooklyn. In 2015, the NHL’s New York Islanders madke the move to Brooklyn too, putting two major pro sports teams on the map for the borough.

Credit cards were invented in Brooklyn. Maybe this isn’t good news, but the very first credit card was issued in 1946 by John Biggins of Flatbush National Bank in Brooklyn. He offered a Charge-It program so local Brooklyn shops could extend credit to their customers.

Brooklyn’s had its own public library system, separate from the NYPL, since 1896, and by itself it’s the nation’s fifth-largest. What’s more, no Brooklyn resident has to walk more than a half mile to get to the closest branch. Even in the digital age, Brooklynites take full advantage of all their libraries have to offer, as their library program attendance is the highest in the U.S.

Nathan's Famous Hot dogs Opened in 1916 is still at the corner of Surf and Stillwell, home of the annual Hot Dog Eating Contest that takes place on July 4th weekend. Did you know that Tootsie Rolls were invented in Brooklyn in 1896?

Brooklyn has many great views. The Brooklyn Heights Promenade has great views of the Manhattan skyline. You should also check out another beautiful park in Brooklyn named after the neighborhood it’s in, Sunset Park. The public park offers beautiful views of the Statue of Liberty, Manhattan, and the harbor.

The Verrazano Narrows Bridge is the second longest suspension bridge in the world and has historic Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn on one end, and Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island on the other. The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest roadway bridges in the United States of America. It is the world’s first steel-wire suspension bridge, as well as the first fixed crossing across the East River. When it is extremely cold outside, the Brooklyn Bridge rises approximately three inches. The reason is simple. The cables contract and expand, eventually causing the rising.

A Brooklyn shopkeeper named Morris Michtom and his wife Rose are credited with inventing the teddy bear, which at the time was called a “Teddy’s bear” in reference to a bear Theodore Roosevelt reportedly refused to shoot on a hunting trip in 1902.