Brooklyn is one of five boroughs (counties) of new York, and is the most densely populated – here is home to approximately 2, 5 million inhabitants. It is located on the East side of Manhattan, in the Western part of the island of long island.

First settled here in 1634 by the Dutch, naming the settlement after the village of Breukelen in the province of Utrecht (now it is a city in Holland). Still in Brooklyn there are names of Dutch origin (for example, New Utrecht), and on Clarendon road preserved Dutch frame house built in 1652, is the oldest in new York.

In 1776 happened in Brooklyn, the first battle of the war of independence the Americans lost it to the British. Off the North coast region, in the Gulf of Wallabout, the British kept on the ships are prisons, prisoners of war there killed more people than all the battles of that war.

In the nineteenth century, Brooklyn was developed quickly, taking immigrants. In 1883 he was connected with the Manhattan, the Brooklyn bridge, and a year later Brooklyn residents unanimously voted for the merger with Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens and Staten island in one city. While Boro have kept still and the status of a district of the state of new York.

These places – the visible embodiment of the image of the U.S. as a "melting pot" of cultures. They speak English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian (more than 5 percent of the population), Yiddish, Polish, Arabic, Urdu... Ethnic groups are concentrated in dozens of diverse neighborhoods. Here, in the southern part of Brooklyn, is the famous "Russian" enclave of Brighton beach. Once Brooklyn was perceived as an area populated mostly by the working class, but it is in the past. Today here to build luxury housing, grow gorgeous neighborhoods. At the same time in the borough many quiet green streets lined with little houses.

Brooklyn Museum, opened in 1897, is the second largest public Museum in new York: in his collection of more than one and a half million objects, from ancient Egyptian treasures to contemporary works of art. The Brooklyn children's Museum, opened in 1899, was the first Museum in the world dedicated to childhood. In the southwestern part of the borough is extremely popular among the citizens of the Peninsula of Coney island with a magnificent ocean beaches and boardwalk, which in the summer is good to walk barefoot. Available in a great Brooklyn Botanical garden, Aquarium, huge Prospect Park zoo, free concerts in the open air. The entrance to Prospect Park is decorated with beautiful Grand army Plaza with fountains, monuments, and triumphal arch.

Impressive duplex outboard verrazano bridge-the narrows, which connects Brooklyn with Staten island. It was named after the Florentine Explorer Giovanni da verrazano, the first European who explored the Hudson river. Now the crossing is one of the ten longest bridges in the world.