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Each board has a paid district manager who acts as an interlocutor with city agencies. As is the case with sister boroughs Manhattan and the Bronx, Brooklyn has not voted for a Republican in a national presidential election since Calvin Coolidge in In the presidential election , Democrat Barack Obama received In , Barack Obama increased his Democratic margin of victory in the borough, dominating Brooklyn with One congressional district lies entirely within the borough. Brooklyn's job market is driven by three main factors: the performance of the national and 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 , 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.

Since the late 20th century, Brooklyn has benefited from a steady influx of financial back office operations from Manhattan, the rapid growth of a high-tech and entertainment economy in DUMBO , and strong growth in support services such as accounting, personal supply agencies, and computer services firms.

Jobs in the borough have traditionally been concentrated in manufacturing, but since , Brooklyn has shifted from a manufacturing-based to a service-based economy. In , , Brooklyn residents worked in the services sector, while 27, worked in manufacturing. Although manufacturing has declined, a substantial base has remained in apparel and niche manufacturing concerns such as furniture, fabricated metals, and food products. However, new light-manufacturing concerns packaging organic and high-end food have sprung up in the old plant.

First established as a shipbuilding facility in , the Brooklyn Navy Yard employed 70, people at its peak during World War II and was then the largest employer in the borough. The Missouri , the ship on which the Japanese formally surrendered, was built there, as was the Maine , whose sinking off Havana led to the start of the Spanish—American War. The iron-sided Civil War vessel the Monitor was built in Greenpoint.

From — Seatrain Shipbuilding was the major employer. About private-sector firms providing 4, jobs are at the Yard.

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Construction and services are the fastest growing sectors. Brooklyn is also home to many banks and credit unions.

According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation , there were 37 banks and 26 credit unions operating in the borough in Brooklyn is also attracting numerous high technology start-up companies , as Silicon Alley , the metonym for New York City's entrepreneurship ecosystem , has expanded from Lower Manhattan into Brooklyn. Brooklyn has played a major role in various aspects of American culture including literature, cinema, and theater.

The Brooklyn accent has often been portrayed as the "typical New York accent" in American media, although this accent and stereotype are supposedly fading out. Brooklyn hosts the world-renowned Brooklyn Academy of Music , the Brooklyn Philharmonic , and the second-largest public art collection in the United States, housed in the Brooklyn Museum. It has in its permanent collection more than 1.

The Brooklyn Children's Museum , the world's first museum dedicated to children, opened in December Bargemusic and St. The borough is home to the arts and politics monthly Brooklyn Rail , as well as the arts and cultural quarterly Cabinet. Hello Mr. Brooklyn Magazine is one of the few glossy magazines about Brooklyn. Several others are now defunct, including BKLYN Magazine a bimonthly lifestyle book owned by Joseph McCarthy, that saw itself as a vehicle for high-end advertisers in Manhattan and was mailed to 80, high-income households , Brooklyn Bridge Magazine , The Brooklynite a free, glossy quarterly edited by Daniel Treiman , and NRG edited by Gail Johnson and originally marketed as a local periodical for Clinton Hill and Fort Greene, but expanded in scope to become the self-proclaimed "Pulse of Brooklyn" and then the "Pulse of New York".

Brooklyn has a thriving ethnic press. Many nationally distributed ethnic newspapers are based in Brooklyn. Over 60 ethnic groups, writing in 42 languages, publish some non-English language magazines and newspapers in New York City. Among them is the quarterly " L'Idea ", a bilingual magazine printed in Italian and English since Brooklyn Community Access Television is the borough's public access channel.

The Nets moved into the borough in , and play their home games at Barclays Center in Prospect Heights. The Islanders had originally played at Nassau Coliseum full-time since their inception until , when their lease at the venue expired and the team moved to Barclays Center. In , the team will return to Nassau Coliseum full-time for one season before moving to their new permanent home at Belmont Park in Brooklyn also has a storied sports history. In the earliest days of organized baseball, Brooklyn teams dominated the new game. The second recorded game of baseball was played near what is today Fort Greene Park on October 24, Brooklyn's Excelsiors , Atlantics and Eckfords were the leading teams from the mids through the Civil War , and there were dozens of local teams with neighborhood league play, such as at Mapleton Oval.

Brooklyn's most famous historical team, the Brooklyn Dodgers , named for "trolley dodgers" played at Ebbets Field. The event was marked by mass euphoria and celebrations. Just two years later, the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. Walter O'Malley , the team's owner at the time, is still vilified, even by Brooklynites too young to remember the Dodgers as Brooklyn's ball club. After a year hiatus, professional baseball returned to the borough in with the Brooklyn Cyclones , a minor league team that plays in MCU Park in Coney Island.

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They are an affiliate of the New York Mets. Brooklyn has one of the most active recreational fishing fleets in the United States.

In addition to a large private fleet along Jamaica Bay, there is a substantial public fleet within Sheepshead Bay. About 57 percent of all households in Brooklyn were households without automobiles. The citywide rate is 55 percent in New York City. Brooklyn features extensive public transit. Approximately Major stations, out of the currently in Brooklyn , include:. Brooklyn was once served by an extensive network of streetcars , but many were replaced by the public bus network that covers the entire borough.

There is also daily express bus service into Manhattan. In February , Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city government would begin a citywide ferry service called NYC Ferry to extend ferry transportation to communities in the city that have been traditionally underserved by public transit. A third route, the Rockaway ferry, makes one stop in the borough at Brooklyn Army Terminal. A streetcar line, the Brooklyn—Queens Connector , was proposed by the city in February , [] with the planned timeline calling for service to begin around Most of the limited-access expressways and parkways are in the western and southern sections of Brooklyn, where the borough's two interstate highways are located; Interstate , which uses the Gowanus Expressway and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway , traverses Sunset Park and Brooklyn Heights , while Interstate is an unsigned route designation for the Brooklyn—Battery Tunnel , which connects to Manhattan.

Planned expressways that were never built include the Bushwick Expressway, an extension of I [] and the Cross-Brooklyn Expressway, I Much of Brooklyn has only named streets, but Park Slope , Bay Ridge , Sunset Park , Bensonhurst , and Borough Park and the other western sections have numbered streets running approximately northwest to southeast, and numbered avenues going approximately northeast to southwest.

East of Dahill Road, lettered avenues like Avenue M run east and west, and numbered streets have the prefix "East". Numbered streets prefixed by "North" and "South" in Williamsburg, and "Bay", "Beach", "Brighton", "Plumb", "Paerdegat" or "Flatlands" along the southern and southwestern waterfront are loosely based on the old grids of the original towns of Kings County that eventually consolidated to form Brooklyn. These names often reflect the bodies of water or beaches around them, such as Plumb Beach or Paerdegat Basin.

Carey Tunnel ; and several subway tunnels. The Queen Mary 2 , one of the world's largest ocean liners , was designed specifically to fit under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the United States. She makes regular ports of call at the Red Hook terminal on her transatlantic crossings from Southampton, England. In February , Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city government would begin NYC Ferry to extend ferry transportation to traditionally underserved communities in the city.

The South Brooklyn and Rockaway routes serve southwestern Brooklyn before terminating in lower Manhattan. Ferries to Coney Island are also planned.

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A Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel , originally proposed in the s as a core project for the then-new Port Authority of New York is again being studied and discussed as a way to ease freight movements across a large swath of the metropolitan area. Education in Brooklyn is provided by a vast number of public and private institutions. Public schools in the borough are managed by the New York City Department of Education , the largest public school system.

Brooklyn Technical High School commonly called Brooklyn Tech , a New York City public high school, is the largest specialized high school for science, mathematics, and technology in the United States. Brooklyn Tech is across the street from Fort Greene Park. It covers about half of a city block. Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York , and was the first public coeducational liberal arts college in New York City.

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Many of its students are first and second-generation Americans. Founded in , Medgar Evers College is a senior college of the City University of New York , with a mission to develop and maintain high quality, professional, career-oriented undergraduate degree programs in the context of a liberal arts education.

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The college offers programs at the baccalaureate and associate degree levels, as well as adult and continuing education classes for central Brooklyn residents, corporations, government agencies, and community organizations. That institution—which became the Voorhees Technical Institute many decades later—was soon a model for the development of technical and vocational schools worldwide.

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In , Voorhees was incorporated into City Tech. The Nobel Prize winner Robert F. Furchgott was a member of its faculty. Half of the Medical Center's students are minorities or immigrants. The College of Medicine has the highest percentage of minority students of any medical school in New York State.

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