Brooklyn is the most crowded of New York City's five
wards, with around 2.6 million individuals, and additionally the
second-biggest in region. It is geologically neighboring the ward of
Queens at the western end of Long Island. Since 1896, Brooklyn has
had the same limits as Kings County, which is the most crowded area
in New York and the second-most thickly populated region in the
United States, after New York County. Today, in the event that it
were an autonomous city, Brooklyn would rank as the fourth most
crowded city in the U.s., behind just alternate wards of New York
City consolidated, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Brooklyn was a free
consolidated city, until January 1, 1898, when, after a long
political battle and advertising fight amid the 1890s, as indicated
by the new Municipal Charter of Greater New York, Brooklyn was merged
with alternate urban communities, districts and regions to structure
the advanced City of New York encompassing the Upper New York Bay
with five constituent precincts. It proceeds with, then again, to
keep up a different society, as befitting the previous second or
third biggest city in America amid the later nineteenth Century.
Numerous Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves where specific
ethnic and nationality gatherings and societies prevail. Brooklyn's
official adage is Eendraght Maeckt Maght. Written in the Dutch
dialect, it is propelled by the maxim of the United Dutch Provinces
and deciphered In solidarity, there is quality. The maxim is shown on
the Borough seal and banner, which likewise emphasize an adolescent
robed lady bearing a heap of bound poles known as an issue, a
conventional image of Republicanism. Brooklyn's official shades are
blue and gold.
