Brooklyn (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Locations 1.1 See also 2 Ships 3 People 4 Popular culture 5 Other

[edit] Locations

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

In addition, Brooklyn is the name or part of the name of the following places:

In the United States of America:

• Brooklyn, Connecticut
• Brooklyn, Illinois, in Saint Clair County
• Brooklyn, Schuyler County, Illinois
• Brooklyn, Indiana
• Brooklyn, Iowa
• Brooklyn, Maryland, a section of Baltimore
• Brooklyn Park, Maryland
• Brooklyn, Michigan
• "Brooklyn", an early name for the settlement that eventually became Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Brooklyn, Ohio
• Brooklyn, Wisconsin
  • Brooklyn, Dane County, Wisconsin
  • Brooklyn, Green County, Wisconsin
  • Brooklyn, Green Lake County, Wisconsin
  • Brooklyn, Washburn County, Wisconsin
• Brooklyn Center, Minnesota (derived from Minneapolis, see above)
• Brooklyn Park, Minnesota (derived from Minneapolis, see above)
• Brooklyn, Portland, Oregon

In Canada

• Brooklyn, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, a small village north of Yarmouth
• Brooklyn, Queens County, Nova Scotia, a village of Liverpool

In South Africa:

• Brooklyn, Pretoria, a suburb of Pretoria, Gauteng Province
• Brooklyn, Cape Town, a suburb of Cape Town, Western Cape Province

In Australia:

• Brooklyn, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne
• Brooklyn, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
• Brooklyn, Tasmania
• Brooklyn Park, South Australia
• Brooklyn Sanctuary, Queensland

In New Zealand:

• Brooklyn, New Zealand, a suburb of Wellington
• Brooklyn Valley, New Zealand, near Motueka in the South Island

[edit] See also

• Brooklin
• Brookline
• Brookland
• Breukelen

[edit] Ships

• USS Brooklyn, various ships

[edit] People

• Brooklyn Decker, American fashion model
• Nicknames for Tony Danza have included "Brooklyn" Tony Danza, "The Brooklyn Brawler," and "The Brooklyn Bomber".
• Mary J. Blige uses the moniker Brook Lynn when rapping. "Brook Lynn" has made appearances on two of Mary's most recent albums as well as a guest appearance on Touch It by Busta Rhymes.

[edit] Popular culture

• Brooklyn (musical), a Broadway musical
• "Brooklyn", a character on the Walt Disney animated series Gargoyles (TV series), named for the New York City borough
• Brooklyn, in the anime series Beyblade, an extremely strong Beyblader who uses the great power of his mind to energize his beyblade, Zeus
• "Brooklyn", a term used in ten-pin bowling to describe a hit in the pocket opposite (left [pins 1,2] for right-handers, right [pins 1,3] for left-handers) from the one that is attempted
• Private Alvin "Brooklyn" Bloomfield, an American soldier in Call of Duty 2: Big Red One.

[edit] Other

• Brooklyn Brewery