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Brooklyn was named after the Dutch city Breukelen. It is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Brooklyn was an independent city until its consolidation into New York in eighteen ninety-eight. Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with nearly two million residents. Brooklyn is coterminous with Kings County, which is the most populous county in New York State, and the second most densely populated county in the United States, after New York. The first Europeans to settle the area were the Dutch on the western edge of Long Island. The first Dutch settlement was Midwood, established in sixteen thirty-four. The Dutch purchased land from the Mohawk tribe around the sixteen thirties around present day Gowanus, Red Hook, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and Bushwick. The Village of Breuckelen was authorized by the Dutch West India Company in sixteen forty-six and was the first municipality in New York State. At the time Breuckelen was part of New Netherlands. Brooklyn is located on the westernmost point of Long Island and shares its only land boundary with Queens to the northeast. The westernmost section of this boundary is defined by Newtown Creek, which flows into the East River. Brooklyn has many well-defined neighborhoods, many of which developed from distinct towns and villages that date back to its founding in the Dutch colonial era in the early sixteen hundreds. Downtown Brooklyn is the third-largest central business district in New York City, after Midtown Manhattan and Lower Manhattan. It has many commercial towers and a rapidly increasing number of residential buildings. Brooklyn's job market is driven by three main factors: the performance of the national/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 four hundred ten thousand people, work in the borough; more than half of the borough's residents work outside its boundaries. As a result, economic conditions in Manhattan are important to the borough's jobseekers. Strong international immigration to Brooklyn generates jobs in services, retailing, and construction.
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