Adams replaced popular Borough President Marty Markowitz, also a Democrat, who partially used his office to promote tourism and new development for Brooklyn. With a land area of 70.82 square miles (183.4 km2) and water area of 26 square miles (67 km2), Kings County is New York state's fourth-smallest county by land area and third-smallest by total area, though it is the second-largest among the city's five boroughs in terms of area and largest in terms of population. In April 2020, the New York Liberty of the WNBA were sold to the Nets' owners and moved their home venue from Madison Square Garden to the Barclays Center. In addition to its specialized Business Library in Brooklyn Heights, the Library is preparing to construct its new Visual & Performing Arts Library (VPA) in the BAM Cultural District, which will focus on the link between new and emerging arts and technology and house traditional and digital collections. Brooklyn's water borders are extensive and varied, including Jamaica Bay; the Atlantic Ocean; The Narrows, separating Brooklyn from the borough of Staten Island in New York City and crossed by the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge; Upper New York Bay, separating Brooklyn from Jersey City and Bayonne in the U.S. state of New Jersey; and the East River, separating Brooklyn from the borough of Manhattan in New York City and traversed by the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge, the Williamsburg Bridge, and numerous routes of the New York City Subway. Brooklyn is also served by the major New York dailies, including The New York Times, the New York Daily News, and the New York Post. Pratt has over 4700 students, with most at its Brooklyn campus. While Washington's defeat on the battlefield cast early doubts on his ability as the commander, the tactical withdrawal of all his troops and supplies across the East River in a single night is now seen by historians as one of his most brilliant triumphs.[29]. Walter O'Malley, the team's owner at the time, is still vilified, even by Brooklynites too young to remember the Dodgers as Brooklyn's ball club. © 2020 The City of New York. Other longstanding settlements in Borough Park and Sunset Park have endured, while more recent immigrants are scattered throughout the southern parts of Brooklyn alongside the Russian American community. [32] On May 14, 1849, the name was shortened to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle;[33] on September 5, 1938, it was further shortened to Brooklyn Eagle. Jacob Judd, "Policing the City of Brooklyn in the 1840s and 1850s". In addition to a large private fleet along Jamaica Bay, there is a substantial public fleet within Sheepshead Bay. Under the Köppen climate classification, using the 32 °F (0 °C) coldest month (January) isotherm, Brooklyn experiences a humid subtropical climate (Cfa),[41] with partial shielding from the Appalachian Mountains and moderating influences from the Atlantic Ocean. The East River Ferry serves points in Lower Manhattan, Midtown, Long Island City, and northwestern Brooklyn via its East River route. Andrew Haskell Green and other progressives said Yes, and eventually, they prevailed against the Daily Eagle and other conservative forces. The history of European settlement in Brooklyn spans more than 350 years. It has the same boundaries as Kings County, which is also the most populous county in the state and the second-most densely populated county in the country after New York County/Manhattan. ���(p���r��i�\������*��� �"�! [82] The Park Slope neighborhood spearheaded the popularity of Brooklyn among lesbians, and Prospect Heights has an LGBT residential presence. Our Time Press published weekly by DBG Media covers the Village of Brooklyn with a motto of "The Local paper with the Global-View". It was built by the Dutch, and the foundation can be seen today. Brooklyn has a thriving ethnic press. The largest concentration is in Sunset Park along 8th Avenue, known for its Chinese culture. 36.9% of the population are foreign born. 0000002427 00000 n The history of the borough goes back 350 years and it has long been known as a popular destination for immigrants to the United States. [115] In 1947 Jackie Robinson was hired by the Dodgers as the first African-American player in Major League Baseball in the modern era. The population density was 35,369/square mile. Graduate programs include a library and information science, architecture, and urban planning. Railroads and industrialization spread to Bay Ridge and Sunset Park. Brooklyn had reached its natural municipal boundaries at the ends of Kings County. It is called "Brooklyn's Chinatown" and its Chinese population is composed in majority by Fuzhounese Americans, rendering this Chinatown with the nicknames "Fuzhou Town (福州埠), Brooklyn" or the "Little Fuzhou (小福州)" of Brooklyn.