* 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

Dwyer and Depler then renamed the Triangles the Brooklyn Dodgers, borrowing the name of Brooklyn's then major league baseball team.

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 ).

He was briefly a member of Brooklyn's Federal League team in 1916, but the league, then considered a third major league, folded before he could play a game with them.

Some early ballparks, such as Brooklyn's Eastern Park, were abandoned because the trolley lines did not go out far enough and the team was not performing well enough for people to tolerate the inconvenience.

Brooklyn's team colors are white and blue.

As a teenager Wilpon was a teammate of Baseball Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax on Brooklyn's Lafayette High School baseball team.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Attractions include the Long Meadow, a 90-acre ( 36 ha ) meadow, the Picnic House, which houses offices and a hall that can accommodate parties with up to 175 guests ; Litchfield Villa, the pre-existing home of Edwin Clark Litchfield, an early developer of the neighborhood and a former owner of a southern section of the Park ; Prospect Park Zoo ; a large nature conservancy managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society ; The Boathouse, housing a visitors center and the first urban Audubon Center ; Brooklyn's only lake, covering ; the Prospect Park Bandshell that hosts free outdoor concerts in the summertime.

This refers to Williamsburg, which was described as Brooklyn's " Eastern District " when the City of Williamsburg was annexed by the former City of Brooklyn.

When Brooklyn's Gil Hodges hit four home runs in a game in 1950 he had just been called up to the Dodgers ; when the Braves ' Joe Adcock hit four against Brooklyn in 1954, Loes was still with the Dodgers ; when Cleveland's Rocky Colavito hit four against Baltimore in 1959, Loes was with the Orioles ; and when Willie Mays hit four home runs in 1961 against the Braves, Loes was a teammate on the Giants.

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 ).

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 ).

Manhattan's Hudson Yards and Brooklyn's waterfront in Williamsburg and Greenpoint both underwent rezoning revisions which were in part due to the region's planned roles as Olympic venues, including the controversial West Side Stadium.

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.

Stevens recorded Illinois in various locations throughout New York City, including Brooklyn's St. Paul's Church.

The 1980s was a time of much racial tension in the city, including the highly-publicized murders of three African Americans in " white " neighborhoods in separate incidents: Willie Turks in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn in 1982 ; Michael Griffith in Howard Beach, Queens in 1986 ; and Yusef Hawkins in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst neighborhood in 1989, in addition to the much-publicized " subway vigilante " shootings by Bernhard Goetz in 1984.

Bobby Lowe of Boston was the first to hit four at home and Gil Hodges turned the trick in Brooklyn's Ebbetts Field.

Restoration of Brooklyn's trolley routes was hampered due to the New York City Department of Transportation ( DOT ) withdrawing its support from the project.

The first award was given to Brooklyn's Don Newcombe.

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.

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.

Henry Ward Beecher, a renowned preacher of Brooklyn's Plymouth Church, had condemned Woodhull's free love philosophy in his sermons.

The parade, which consists of steel bands, floats, elaborate Carnival costumes and sound trucks proceeds down Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway in the Crown Heights neighborhood.

Brooklyn's official motto is.

Brooklyn's official colors are blue and gold.

Brooklyn's population expanded more than threefold between 1800 and 1820, doubled again in the 1820s, and doubled yet again during the 1830s.

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.

Forty-four percent of Brooklyn's employed population, or 410, 000 people, work in the borough ; more than half of the borough's residents work outside its boundaries.

According to the 2009 American Community Survey, Brooklyn's population was 46. 6 % white, of which 36. 9 % were non-Hispanic whites.

Hispanics and Latinos made up 19. 6 % of Brooklyn's population.

Putnam died in Brooklyn, Connecticut in 1790, and was buried in an above-ground tomb in Brooklyn's South Cemetery.

His education at Brooklyn's Boys ' High School from 1904 to 1908 provided him with solid grounding in drafting and other basic art techniques.

After the Dodgers dropped the first two games of that year's World Series to the Yankees, Campanella began Brooklyn's comeback by hitting a two-out, two-run home run in the first inning of Game 3.

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

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.