<h1 style="text-align: center;">Brooklyn, <em>New York City</em></h1>
<p>Out of New York&rsquo;s five boroughs, Brooklyn has the largest population. With almost three million people, the territory is actually smaller than its northern neighbor of Queens. Brooklyn shares the same borders as Kings County, which is the second-most populated county in the entire United States. With such a large amount of people, the Brooklyn is a bed of diversity. Sizeable neighborhoods of Jewish, Chinese, and Caribbean inhabitants occupy much of the city.</p>
<p>Brooklyn was adopted as a borough of New York City in January of 1898. Originally called Breuckelen, the city underwent rapid urbanization after the revolutionary war due to the borough&rsquo;s border with the East River. The water source provided a breeding ground for industrial factories as workers from all over the world flooded in. Inhabitants soon started a ferry service that traveled between their city and Manhattan. Further economic industrialization within Brooklyn brought trains and bridges into and out of the city. Even today, the economic and social landscape of Brooklyn is booming with immigrants feeding the industrial, transportation, and service industry.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Even though Brooklyn remains a borough of blue-collar immigrants, it has taken significant strides towards gentrification. Before the housing market crash in 2008, million-dollar brownstones and condos popped up all over the city. Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope, especially, were riddled with pricey real estate, making the housing market in Brooklyn today just as expensive as Manhattan. Some of the rich and wealthy who currently occupy the Brooklyn borough&rsquo;s fine real estate include Anne Hathaway, Patrick Stewart, and Norah Jones.&nbsp;</p>