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Brooklyn is a borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the State of New York.Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelve original counties established under British rule in 1683 in the then Province of New York.
To the extreme southwest, Long Island, at Brooklyn, is separated from Staten Island and the state of New Jersey by Upper New York Bay, The Narrows, and Lower New York Bay. With a population of 8,063,232 residents as of the 2020 U.S. census, Long Island constitutes 40% of the state's population.
The following is a list of attractions on Long Island, New York State.The list includes museums, parks, and beaches as well as many other types of attractions. In this list, "Long Island" is defined as the geographical entity, and thus the list includes attractions in Kings County, New York, a.k.a. Brooklyn, as well as Queens County, New York, a.k.a. Queens, which are both parts of New York City.
Long Island is in southeastern New York, United States, separated from the rest of the state by the East River and from Connecticut by Long Island Sound.Long Island contains four counties, of which the western two are boroughs (Queens and Brooklyn) of New York City, and the other two (Nassau and Suffolk) are mainly suburban.
From 1830 until 1930, population roughly doubled every twenty years, and several cities were incorporated, such as the City of Brooklyn in Kings County, and Long Island City in Queens. By the late 19th century, Long Island had become a summer refuge for residents of New York City.
Map showing JFK (1) and LaGuardia (2) airports, both in Queens. Long Island is the location of three large airports with regularly scheduled commercial jet airline service. These are the John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport, both in Queens County (in New York City), and the Long Island MacArthur Airport, (sometimes referred to as the "Islip Airport"), a smaller airport ...
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Landowners in Brooklyn were concerned that a full conflict between the Colonies and the British would result in loss of their critical source of slave labor. [30] Parts of the Battle of Long Island took place in Flatbush; the patriots checked the British advance north at what is now known as Battle Pass, until they were surprised by a flanking ...