It comes from the Dutch town of Breukelen, which doesn't really mean anything.
The Brooklyn Bridge was built by the Americans, not the Dutch, and was completed in 1883, more than 200 years after the Dutch city of New Amsterdam was captured by the British and renamed as New York.
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Brooklyn has it's foundation has carried this name.It was named after the Dutch town Breukelen
The name Brooklyn means land of brooks. Brook means brook. Lyn means land. The name Brooklyn means grateful, wonderful, beautiful, great, surprisingly, kinda truthful and sometimes Dramatic when it comes to enemies.
The name Brooklyn is derived from the Dutch Settlers. It was originally spelled Brueklen (brew-clenn).
The Brooklyn Bridge opened on May 24, 1883, so it was 130 years old in 2013.
Brooklyn was named Breuckelen by Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam, before they were displaced by the British. It means "marshland" in Dutch and is the name of a town near Utrecht, just to the east of South Holland.
The area now called Brooklyn was first settled in by the Dutch in 1624. The village Breuckelen, was named after the province in Utrecht, Netherlands in 1646. This was authorized by the Dutch West Indian Corporation.
Brooklyn, now part of New York City, was founded as Breuckelen by Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam in 1646.
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A. J. Beekman has written: 'History of the corporation of the Reformed Dutch Church of the town of Brooklyn. (Known as the First Reformed Dutch Church)' -- subject(s): Old First Reformed Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Dutch Jordan debuted on April 25, 1903, playing for the Brooklyn Superbas at Washington Park III; he played his final game on October 8, 1904, playing for the Brooklyn Superbas at Washington Park III.