You left out a bridge in the contest about which bridges connect Brooklyn to the other boroughs. The Marine Park Bridge aka Gil Hodges Bridge, connects Brooklyn to the Rockaways in Queens. I guess that this end of Brooklyn just doesn't register with the "Brownstone Brooklyn" types.

It's wonderful that Manhattanites and the rest of the world have discovered lovely, homey, Berkeley-Brooklyn. Maybe now all those tourists flooding the East Village will cross the river and return to us our used- to -be sleepy and dark streets.

Yes - RJ, the places where people need cars....

This contest is pretentious, it is sickening.

New Netherlands was not conquered. It was signed over to the English as part of a settlement from an English-Dutch war somewhere in Europe.

Inwood -and Washington Heights Bri

wow, this segment may cause kingsCounty to finally jump the shark...

tony from hk now in bayside...

Will you remember Canarsie, Sheepshead Bay, Gerritsen, Mill Basin, Borough Park, Bensonhurst ... the noncool areas?

The "Brooklyn Renaissance" ended about ten years ago, Kurt... what's happened since then has been a steady colonization by yuppies and developers feeding on yuppies. Now you can count to five between artists showing up in an abandoned building and the gentrification of same.

Go to Queens if you want to see what "no attitude" living looks like.

Brooklyn is a movement, you feel like you are a part of something. I never felt the same, living in Manhattan or Queens.

I know that brooklyn "king" was were the king lived...and queens where he had his wives :)