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.

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.

Brooklyn's Chinatown is now the new nexus for new arriving Fuzhou immigrants to settle in NYC and many of them in Brooklyn's Chinatown have also illegally subdivided their apartments into tiny rooms to rent to other Fuzhou immigrants.

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

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the show " follows two painfully cool hipster girls as they relocate from Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood to Los Angeles ' Silver Lake enclave in hopes of becoming artists – of any kind.

A Roman Catholic, Jean-Juste attended a Canadian seminary before becoming the first Haitian to be ordained in the U. S. at Brooklyn's Church of St. Avila.

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.

During the same year, Alfred E. Clark of The New York Times referred to it as " Brooklyn's Little Harlem.

One of Brooklyn's last remaining ( then intact ) old Farms was located on the site of a present day apartment complex at 1279 East 17th St. ( just north of Ave. M ) up until it was torn down in the mid 1960s.

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 ').

Mayme gained custody of Gwendolyn ; however Joshua Bennett kidnapped Gwendolyn and they lived in hiding, along with her stepmother, Marechal Neil, in various places in the East, including Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Brooklyn, New York where she attended Brooklyn's Girls ' High from 1918 till 1921.

On streets like Brooklyn's Broadway the rumble of iron store gates being forced up and the shattering of glass preceded scenes of couches, televisions, and heaps of clothing being paraded through the streets by looters at once defiant, furtive and gleeful.

Brooklyn's Broadway, ending in the ferry to Manhattan, became the area's lifeline.

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 three main avenues in the Coney Island community, are, from north to south, Neptune Avenue ( which crosses to the mainland to become Emmons Avenue ), Mermaid Avenue, and Surf Avenue ( which becomes Ocean Parkway and then runs north towards Brooklyn's Prospect Park ).

Over the next few years, D ' Onofrio worked on numerous films including Staten Island ( 2009 ), Brooklyn's Finest ( 2010 ), Ass Backwards ( 2011 ), Kill the Irishman ( 2011 ), Crackers ( 2011 ), American Falls ( 2012 ), and Fire with Fire ( 2012 ).

Groups like The Crows (" Gee "), The Orioles (" It's Too Soon to Know ") and Brooklyn's Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers (" Why Do Fools Fall in Love ") had a string of hit songs that brought the genre to chart domination by 1958 ( see 1958 in music ).

In the early morning hours of December 26, 1925, White Hand gang boss Richard " Pegleg " Lonergan and a few of his men were attacked at Brooklyn's Adonis Club by a handful of Yale's men and a visiting Al Capone ( Capone's son Sonny had just had an operation for a mastoid infection in New York ).

The term, relating to Brooklyn's preponderance of trolley lines, was the basis for the name of the Major League Baseball team the Brooklyn Dodgers ( which moved to Los Angeles in 1958 ).

She is a graduate of Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School ( 1958 ), Radcliffe College ( magna cum laude 1962 ), and Harvard Law School ( 1965 ).

He appeared as a keynote speaker at Brooklyn's Northside Festival in June 2012 where he coined the phrase " ROA " ( Return on Audience ).