The Bronx, although all of the boroughs are pretty close to each other (except for Staten Island and the Bronx, which are roughly 15 miles apart). Brooklyn shares a border with Queens, and is separated from Manhattan and Staten Island by waterways that are no more than a mile wide. Brooklyn is a little over 3 miles from the Bronx, as the crow flies.
Its a borough of New York City
Brooklyn is a borough in the city of New York, in the state of New York.
Brooklyn
Brooklyn was an independent city until it was annexed by New York City in 1898. It is now a borough.
All of New York State has only one governor and that is Andrew Cuomo. The Borough of Brooklyn has a "Borough President" who is Marty Markowitz. Brooklyn is part of the City of New York. The Mayor of the City of New York is Michael Bloomberg.
Brooklyn is not a city, so it does not have a mayor. Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs of New York City: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. The current (2010) Mayor of New York City is Michael Bloomberg. Each of the five boroughs has a Borough President. The current (2010) Brooklyn Borough President is Marty Markowitz.
Borough Park is in southwest Brooklyn.
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.
The Brooklyn Bridge connects the borough of Manhattan and the borough of Brooklyn.
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City in the US. Spain is a country in Europe.
No countRies are connected by the Brooklyn Bridge. Besides, you do NOT really use the word COUNTY in New York City. You use Boroughs, which have different names, Borough of Bronx = Bronx County AKA The Bronx Borough of Brooklyn = Kings County Borough of Manhattan = New York County Borough of Queens = Queens County [This is the only area in NYC where the County & Borough share the same name] Borough of Staten Island = Richmond County. The Brooklyn Bridge connects New York County [Manhattan] with Kings County [Brooklyn]. NYC = The City of New York, AKA New York City = 5 of 62 counties in New York State.
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.