Brooklyn is the most populous of New York Cities five boroughs. With a census-estimated 2,636,735 residents in 2015. Brooklyn is an independent incorporated city (and previously an authorized village and town within the provisions of the new York state constitution) until January 1, 1898, when, after a long political campaign and public relations battle during the 1890s, according to the new municipal charter of “great New York”
The area was originally founded as an independent city immigrants from Holland with the name breuckelen. In 1898, the city got incorporated as a part of New York City and lost it’s independence.
With a land area of 71 square miles (180 km2) and water area of 26 spuare miles (67 km2), kings county is New York state’s fourth-smallest county by land area third-smallest by total area though it is the second-largest among the city’s five boroughs.
Brooklyn bridge park
Brooklyn Bridge Park is divided in two. This long ribbon of postindustrial waterfront in central Brooklyn, passing under its namesake bridge, is being adaptively used as a new park designed by landscape architects Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates.
North of the bridge, bordering DUMBO and within the Fulton Ferry Historic District, the Brooklyn Bridge park is mostly complete, and an undeniable success. The much larger southern section, built on five old piers, is isolated from neighboring Brooklyn Heights by a long vertical drop and the six lane Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Only partially completed, this section of park is somewhat of an experiment in accessibility. The Brooklyn Bridge itself flies high above the park. The Bridge’s long span is a divining rod around which everything else relates.
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