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Is Brooklyn really the 4th largest city in America?

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Brooklyn is not a municipality, therefore it does not qualify as a “city”; it is, however, a hypothetical figure of how Brooklyn’s population of 2.6 million racks up against other cities in the United States. In that case Brooklyn will indeed be the fourth largest, after the other four boroughs of New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. read more

The answer is yes. Brooklyn, NY, if independent, would be the fourth largest city in the United States. read more

Leone commissioned the sign in 1975 and order it put where everyone driving over the bridge into Brooklyn would see it. He did it, he said, “to remind visitors and residents of Brooklyn that our borough would be the fourth largest city in America.” Would be, because of course Brooklyn was then and still is a borough. read more