Brooklyn
Brooklyn, the "Borough of Homes and Churches," is one of the five boroughs of New York City. It used to be a separate city, and still feels much like one.Photo: Newyork10r, Public domain.
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Popular Destinations
Coney Island and Brighton Beach
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Coney Island and Brighton Beach are in Brooklyn. In addition to those two neighborhoods, this travel guide covers Manhattan Beach, Gravesend, and Sheepshead Bay.
Southwest Brooklyn
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Southwest Brooklyn is a part of Brooklyn, New York City that encompasses the neighborhoods of Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Dyker Heights, Fort Hamilton, Kensington, Parkville, and Sunset Park.
Williamsburg
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Williamsburg 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
Prospect Park
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Prospect Park is in Brooklyn. It includes its namesake park, plus the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, and Prospect Park South.
Downtown Brooklyn
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Downtown Brooklyn 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.
Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush
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Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush are in Brooklyn. In addition to the two aforementioned neighborhoods, this travel guide covers Crown Heights, Lefferts Gardens, Brownsville, East Flatbush, and Midwood.
East Brooklyn
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East Brooklyn encompasses Cypress Hills, East New York, Canarsie, Bergen Beach, Flatlands, Mill Basin, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach, and Barren Island.
Gowanus and Red Hook
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Gowanus and Red Hook is in Brooklyn. In addition to Gowanus and Red Hook, this travel guide also covers Carroll Gardens.
Notable Places in the Area
Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn.Freedom Tower
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One World Trade Center, also known as One World Trade, One WTC, and formerly called the Freedom Tower during initial planning stages, is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
Woolworth Building
The Woolworth Building is a residential building and early skyscraper at 233 Broadway in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States.Localities in the Area
Financial District
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The Financial District comprises the southern tip of Manhattan, 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.
Chinatown
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Manhattan's famous Chinatown is a lively neighborhood, full of good values in restaurants and food shopping.
TriBeCa
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A former industrial district in Lower Manhattan, TriBeCa, short for "Triangle Below Canal Street", has transformed from artist community to upscale residential district in the 21st century.
Brooklyn
- Type: Suburb with 2,740,000 residents
- Description: borough of New York City, New York, United States
- Postal codes: 11201-11213, 11215-11226, 11228-11239, 11241-11243, 11245, 11247, 11249, 11251, 11252 and 11256
- Neighbors: Bayonne, Jersey City, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island
- Categories: borough of New York City, city in the United States and locality
- Location: New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.6928° or 40° 41' 34" northLongitude
-73.9903° or 73° 59' 25" westPopulation
2,740,000Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)Abbreviation
BKUnited Nations Location Code
US BKUOpen Location Code
87G8M2V5+4VOpenStreetMap ID
node 158857828OpenStreetMap Feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
5110302Wikidata ID
Q18419Brooklyn Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Brooklyn, New York
- Afrikaans: Brooklyn
- Albanian: Brooklyn
- Arabic: Brooklyn
- Arabic: بروكلين
- Arabic: بروكلين، نيويورك
- Armenian: Բրուքլին
- 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
- Czech: Brooklyn
- Danish: Brooklyn
- Dimli (individual language): Brooklyn
- Dutch: Brooklyn
- Eastern Mari: Бруклин
- Egyptian Arabic: بروكلين
- English: Borough of Brooklyn
- English: Brooklyn, NY
- English: Brooklyn, New York
- English: Brooklyn, New York City
- Esperanto: Broklino
- Estonian: Brooklyn
- Faroese: Brooklyn
- Finnish: Brooklyn
- French: Brooklyn
- Galician: Brooklyn
- Georgian: ბრუკლინი
- German: Brooklyn
- Greek: Μπρούκλιν
- Greek: Μπρόυκλιν, Νέα Υόρκη
- Gujarati: બ્રુકલીન
- Haitian: Bwouklin (Nouyòk)
- Haitian: Bwouklin
- Hakka Chinese: Pu-lû-khiet-lìm
- Hausa: Brooklyn
- 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: ブルックリン区
- Javanese: Brooklyn, New York
- Kazakh: Бруклин
- Khmer: ប៊្រុគ្លីន
- Khmer: ប៊្រុគ្លីន ទីក្រុងញូវយ៉ក
- 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
- Mingrelian: ბრუქლინი
- N'Ko: ߓߑߙߎߞߑߟߊ߲ߣ
- N'Ko: ߓߑߙߎߞߑߟߊ߲ߣ߸ ߣߌߦߥ ߦߐߙߞ
- Nauru: Brooklyn
- Northern Frisian: Brooklyn
- Northern Sami: Brooklyn
- Norwegian: Brooklyn
- Norwegian Bokmål: Brooklyn
- Norwegian Nynorsk: 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
- Spanish: Brooklyn (Nueva York)
- 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
- 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
- BK
- Bklyn
- Breuckelen
- Breukelen
- Marechkawick
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Brooklyn. Photo: Suiseiseki, CC BY-SA 3.0.