Kings County, New York
- Identifier
- NJS-PLC-00246
- Place Type
- County or Parish
- Located In
- New York City, New York
- Description
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Kings County is presently coterminous with Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs of New York City. It is located on the westernmost part of Long Island, across the river from the island of Manhattan. Early historical records mentioning places in Kings County often refer to the area as Long Island.
During the era of slavery in New York, Kings County encompassed many different towns and rural villages, such as Flatbush, New Utrecht, and Gravesend. Originally, only the area of Brooklyn Heights near the East River was called Brooklyn, but by the late 19th century, the growing City of Brooklyn annexed and subsumed all of the other municipalities in Kings County one by one. In 1898, the City of Brooklyn merged with Manhattan and the other boroughs to create the metropolis of Greater New York and giving shape to the municipal boundaries of present-day New York City. - County (Modern)
- Kings County, New York
- State or Province
- New York
- Country
- United States of America
- Latitude
- 40.692778
- Longitude
- -73.990278
- Wikipedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
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