As a result, landlords were able to generate twice as much income in Manhattan's Chinatown, Flushing's Chinatown and eventually Brooklyn's Chinatown.

As the epicenter of the massive Fuzhou influx has shifted to Brooklyn in the 2000s, Manhattan's Chinatown's Cantonese population still remains viable and large and successfully continues to retain its stable Cantonese community identity, maintaining the communal gathering venue established decades ago in the western portion of Chinatown, to shop, work, and socialize — in contrast to the Cantonese population and community identity which are declining very rapidly in Brooklyn's Chinatown.

Brooklyn's Chinatown is quickly becoming the new Little Fuzhou in NYC or Brooklyn's East Broadway ( 布鲁克林区的東百老匯 ).

During the late 1980s and 1990s, most of the new Fuzhou immigrants arriving into New York City were settling in Manhattan's Chinatown and later formed the first Fuzhou community in the city amongst the waves of Cantonese who had settled in Chinatown over decades ; but by the 2000s, the Fuzhou population growth had slowed within Manhattan's Chinatown and began to accelerate in Brooklyn's Chinatown instead.

With the rapid growth of Fuzhou homeownership in Brooklyn's Chinatown, and like many other Chinese immigrants and other ethnic immigrants who have become successful homeowners, the Fuzhou home owners subdivide the houses into multiple apartments to rent out to tenants.

This has created opportunities for the newly arriving Fuzhou immigrants to NYC to seek landlords of Fuzhou descent in Brooklyn's Chinatown.

The D ( New York City Subway service ) | D line of the New York City Subway system connects Brooklyn's Bensonhurst Chinatown to Chinatown, Manhattan | Manhattan's Chinatown.

It is also in some way becoming a second extension of Brooklyn's 8th Avenue Chinatown since the D trains are transferable to the N trains to travel to Brooklyn's 8th Avenue Chinatown.

The Sea Beach Line has a station at Eighth Avenue in Brooklyn's Chinatown and a transfer to the West End Line is available at New Utrecht Avenue / 62nd Street.

Brooklyn's official motto is.

Founded in 1863, the Brooklyn Historical Society ( BHS ) is a museum, library, and educational center dedicated to preserving and encouraging the study of Brooklyn's history.

Brooklyn's current Borough President is Marty Markowitz, elected as a Democrat in 2001 and re-elected in 2005, and 2009.

Brooklyn's job market is driven by three main factors: the performance of the national and city economy, population flows and the borough's position as a convenient back office for New York's businesses.

Although the ride has been closed since 1968, it remains a Coney Island landmark, and is sometimes referred to as Brooklyn's Eiffel Tower.

While there is much evidence of her having been raised in Montreal, in an alleged sworn deposition on October 8, 1917, a New York woman named Marie C. Russ did claim to be Florence's biological mother and referred to a Russ family burial plot in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, with lot number 17187 being reserved for Florence Russ, aka Florence La Badie.

The highest metro station in the world is Brooklyn's Smith – Ninth Streets station of the New York City Subway in the United States.

Borough Park is home to the headquarters of Hasidic Judaism's large Bobov community, numbering several thousand families ( exact number unknown ), It is one of Brooklyn's largest Hasidic communities and has followers in Canada, England, Belgium and Israel.

Regional forms can also be found outside of the Caribbean entirely, most notably in New York City, where Brooklyn's Labor Day Carnival features music and parades, mas and steel bands ; this Carnival is distinct to New York, and reflects elements of a pan-Caribbean nature.

Northern Smith Street is known as Brooklyn's " Restaurant Row " due to the large number of eateries and watering holes that opened on the street during the late 1990s and early 2000s.

He is best known as an authority on Shakespeare, but also wrote about aspects of Brooklyn's history such as the Vitagraph Studios, and developed a method of modelling baseball statistics.

Fort Greene Park, originally called Washington Park and Brooklyn's first, is also derived from General Greene's name and the neighborhood.

Homecrest Community Services is one of the earliest Chinese sponsored social service programs to be available in Brooklyn's more recent newer emerged Chinese communities, which are still in their early developing stages, but growing rapidly in Homecrest and Bensonhurst areas of Brooklyn.

* Joann from Bensonhurst is a reality show type of webisode that takes place in Bensonhurst and is about a Bensonhurst Housewife who is known as Brooklyn's Real Housewife.

* Sarah Rapelje, for whose family Brooklyn's Rapelye Street is named

* Brooklyn's major league baseball team, known informally until now as the " Superbas ", the " Robins ", or the " Trolley Dodgers ", officially selects the name Brooklyn Dodgers

The neighborhood, formerly Brooklyn's 18th Ward, is now part of Brooklyn Community Board 4.

It was not until the age of 13 when she was able to bring him with her to Brooklyn's Vanderveer Estates in East Flatbush ( now known as ' Flatbush Gardens ').

Students now attend the Diocese of Brooklyn's Cathedral Seminary House of Formation in Douglaston, Queens, New York.

At the November 2006 groundbreaking for a new ballpark for the New York Mets, Citi Field, it was announced that the main entrance, modeled on the one in Brooklyn's old Ebbets Field, would be called the Jackie Robinson Rotunda.

After the season — Durocher's first year as Brooklyn's starting shortstop — he was appointed playing-manager by the Dodgers ' new president and general manager, Larry MacPhail.

The Reigning Diva of the Decade, Ms. Paradice is threatened by Brooklyn's new found fame.

In exchange for building the tunnel, the City of Brooklyn granted the B & J permission to operate its steam locomotives on Atlantic Street west of Fifth Avenue ( then Parmentier's Garden / Gowanus Lane ), all the way to Brooklyn's South Ferry ( the present location of Brooklyn's Pier 7 ).

The arrival city for his airline ticket read " New York "; landing, instead, in the neighboring state outraged him and caused him to order the plane to fly to Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field.

Koufax attended Brooklyn's Lafayette High School, where he was better known for basketball than for baseball.

He eventually qualified as a minister and became a District Leader and then a council member for Brooklyn's 35th Council district in November 2001.

In 1927, Walter V. Cranford, a construction engineer whose firm built many of Brooklyn's subway tunnels, donated $ 15, 000 to BBG for a rose garden.

Out of these exchanges came Brooklyn's willingness to adopt and adapt the Morgan Memorial way of doing things, while Helms was persuaded that Brooklyn's name for its workshop, " Goodwill Industries ," was a marked improvement over the Morgan Memorial name.

New York State outlawed slavery in 1827 and 20 years later " Coloured School No. 1 ," Brooklyn's first school for African-Americans, opened at the current site of the Walt Whitman Houses.

Despite its relatively short length, the Gowanus Canal was a hub for Brooklyn's maritime and commercial shipping activity.

In 1894, Stanford White brought another prestigious and highly visible commission, for three bronze groups for the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch in Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza.

Besides photographs, Atlas posed for many statues throughout his life, including the statue of George Washington in New York's Washington Square Park, Dawn of Glory in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, and Alexander Hamilton at the U. S. Treasury building in Washington, D. C. Atlas was also an inspiration and a model for later bodybuilders and fitness gurus, including Arnold Schwarzenegger.

By 1938 he was working as a bartender near Brooklyn's Ebbets Field where he sang for drinks, but had to quit when customers became too abusive.

During this time, Harry would add more relief for the studio after he was able purchase Brooklyn's Vitagraph theater company.