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BROOKLYN REAL ESTATE |
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| About Brooklyn New York
Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City with about 2.5 million inhabitants. Were it still a city, and not a borough, it would be the fourth-largest city in the United States after New York City itself, Los Angeles and Chicago. An independent city prior to 1898, Brooklyn developed out of the small Dutch-founded town of "Breuckelen" on the East River shore, named after Breukelen in the Netherlands.
Kings County, conterminous with Brooklyn, is also the most populous county in New York. It was named in honor of King Charles II of England.
Variously called the "City of Trees," "City of Homes," or the "City of Churches" in the 19th century, Brooklyn is now often styled the "Borough of Homes and Churches" or even sometimes called "The Planet", popularized by Guru from the rap duo Gangstarr, for its large diversity, population, and sizeBrooklyn New York is the fourth largest city in the country in population with an estimated four million residents. The melting pot of america where you can go from from end to end and see the all the different ethnic groups that make up this wonderful city. Where you can eat till you bust with more choices of food then any other place. Culture and history oozes from Brooklyn at every corner and side street.Home of the then Brooklyn Dodgers to Sheepshead Bay there is something here for everyone. FUH GETTA BOUT IT.
Brooklyn holds many well known titles the world Famous Nathans Hot dog eating contest held each summer 
in Coney Island Brooklyn with the title currently held by a japanese who weights no more than 109 lbs go figure.
 Coney Island just up the road. Where everyone in Brooklyn goes to enjoy cotton candy
the wonderful beaches and the worlds first roller coaster The Cyclone. Currently Coney Island is being revitalized and promises to be the the hottest place to live.
 The Brooklyn Bridge opened on May 24 1883 as the longest suppension Bridge of its time. It now handles six lanes of traffic and is used by the B and Q train into Manhattan
Famous Facts:
1885: Robert E. Odlum was the first man to jump off the bridge, but did not survive the fall. (Contrary to popular belief, Steve Brodie did not jump off the bridge. He merely pulled off a publicity stunt in order to attain fame.
1895: Clara McArthur was the first woman to jump off the bridge, weighting her stockings with 20 pounds of sand so that she would fall feet first. She survived the fall.
1933: According to a letter published in the Brooklyn Eagle, a woman claimed that she climbed up the walkway to the Brooklyn tower, and jumped rope on top of the tower.
1960: Ed Quigley wagered $100 with his drinking buddies that he would survive a jump off the Brooklyn Bridge. He won the bet.
 The Show The Honey Mooners seen by millions was filmed on site in fort Green Brooklyn. Jackie Gleason,Art Karney, Audrey Medows and Joyce Randolph were two Brooklyn Couples who were best of friends living in a
Brooklyn apartment building in the 1950's They lived at 358 Chauncey Street in the Bensonhurst District of Brooklyn, New York. Jackie GLeason actually grew up at 358 Chauncey Street but in the Bushwick section.
Ralph Kramden works for the Gotham Bus Company and drives Buses #2969 and #247 along Madison Avenue.
Ed Norton works for the sewer company and is always telling sewer jokes, "as we say in the sewer..."
Ralph and Ed bowl with the Hurricanes Bowling Team at the Acme Alley.
Ed always called Kramden, "Ralphie-boy."
|  The first teddy bear got its start here in Brooklyn New York by Morris Michtom and his wife Rose displayed two stuffed bears in the window of their Brooklyn store located in Bedford Styvessant shortly thereafter (February 15, 1903), and said they had received President Roosevelt's written permission to call them "Teddy's bears". Now you know the rest of the
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