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A complex and quixotic urban animal found ranging across southwest New York, the Brooklynite has obtained a sort of mythological status, representing the “you tawkin’ to me” attitude for which the city is known The Brooklynites

Since 1980, Coney Island USA has told the story of why Coney Island is important enough to one day retake its place at the cultural center of New York. The Coney Island Museum is at the heart of that mission. Its the only public repository documenting the history and culture of this important neighborhood. coneyisland.com

How did Brooklyn get its name?

Brooklyn is the anglicized form of Breuckelen, and it is named after the municipality of Breukelen, in Utrecht province, in the Netherlands (you can see it on a map here). When the Dutch settled western Long Island they established a village in what is present-day Brooklyn Heights. They called it Breukelen after the town of Breukelen in Holland.

Europeans who came to New York (then called New Amsterdam) did so as agents of the Dutch West Indies Company, and New Amsterdam became a territory of the Netherlands (also known as Holland).
After the second Anglo-Dutch (England vs. Holland) war in 1667, the Dutch ceded New Amsterdam, which included Breukelen, to the English (in exchange, the Dutch were allowed to keep their colony in Surinam). After the English re-took control of New Amsterdam, the residents gradually converted various Dutch place-names into English equivalents. So Breukelen eventually became Brooklyn How did Brooklyn get its name?