The difference in name is due to the history of the counties before they both became part of New York City in 1898. Brooklyn has two names, because Brooklyn and Kings County were not always the same thing. Brooklyn used to be a small part of Kings County and it gradually grew to swallow up the whole county.
The Dutch settlement of Breuckelen was established on the western shore of Long Island (area of present-day Brooklyn Heights) in the 17th century. The county of Kings was so designated by the English after they took over the colony, and it encompassed roughly the same area as it does now. The name Breuckelen then was anglicized as Brooklyn, and the town was incorporated in the 19th century. By the 1890s, the City of Brooklyn was annexing all surrounding towns, including Williamsburgh, Flatlands, Flatbush, Gravesend, New Utrecht and others, until it took over the entire Kings County. And within a few short years, the City of Brooklyn, which was now synonymous with Kings County, joined with New York City, part of Queens County, part of the present-day Bronx, and Richmond County to form the City of Greater New York. So, in 1898 the City of Brooklyn properly became the Borough of Brooklyn, but the name of the county remained as Kings.
Queens County, on the other hand, consisted of several smaller towns, and did not have one giant that would annex the rest. A number of these smaller towns (Flushing, Jamaica, etc.) also joined the City of Greater New York in 1898 forming the Borough of Queens. The rest of the towns in Queens County (Hempstead, North Hempstead, Oyster Bay) decided to separate and form their own Nassau County within about a year. Thus, the borders of Queens County shrank to encompass only the Borough of Queens and nothing else.
Brooklyn, New York, is a borough of New York City. It is also a county of New York State, although the county name is Kings County. There are also several cities named Brooklyn in the United States.
Brooklyn. In 1898, the five boroughs -- Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island -- consolidated to form modern-day New York City. Before 1898, New York City consisted mostly of just Manhattan. Brooklyn is the only one of the other four boroughs that was its own city before becoming a borough of New York City. The other three were counties: Queens was Queens County, Staten Island was Richmond County, and The Bronx was part of New York County. In fact, the borough of Staten Island was called the borough of Richmond until 1975. The Bronx ceased to be part of New York County, and became coextensive with the new Bronx County, in 1914. So today, each of the five boroughs is also a county in state government: Manhattan is New York County, Brooklyn is Kings County, The Bronx is Bronx County, Queens is still Queens County, and Staten Island is still Richmond County.
Queens. Although part of what is usually called Bushwick, Brooklyn, today used to be called Ridgewood, Brooklyn.
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I believe it was just called Kings county in honor of the King (of England). And Queens was named for his wife.
It is a township (called a Borough) in Ocean county.
Originally referred to as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, it was dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge in an 1867 letter to the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and formally so named by the city government in 1915.
Staten Island is connected to the borough of Brooklyn via the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (more commonly called just, "The Verrazano Bridge").
no, Brooklyn, queens, the Bronx, staten island and Manhattan are all considered "NEW YORK CITY" but long island is not called a borough, it could be considered one though
They are called boroughs.The five boroughs:BronxBrooklynManhattanQueensStaten Island
Take the shuttle (called the AirTrain) from inside the JFK terminals to the Howard Beach Station of the A train. The A train goes through Brooklyn. JFK is in Queens, and Brooklyn and Queens are two halves of one island. Queens is the north side, and Brooklyn is the south side.
Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island.