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Brooklyn FC (2026)
Brooklyn FC (Brooklyn Football Club), founded 2024: a Brooklyn, New York pro soccer club whose women play the Gainbridge Super League since 2024-25 and whose men debuted in the 2026 USL Championship under Marlon LeBlanc and GM Brian McBride, both at Maimonides Park, Coney Island.
Brooklyn Heights
Brooklyn Heights is a historic Brooklyn, New York neighborhood across the East River from Lower Manhattan; America's first commuter suburb and New York City's first designated historic district (1965), known for brownstones, the Promenade, and a 50-foot height limit.
Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival
The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival is an annual hip hop event in Brooklyn, New York, first held in 2005 and described as the city's largest hip-hop cultural event.
Brooklyn Island
Brooklyn Island, Antarctica: 5-km-long island in eastern Wilhelmina Bay off Graham Land, 2 km south of Nansen Island; discovered and named 1897-1899 by de Gerlache's Belgian Antarctic Expedition for Brooklyn, NY, home of surgeon Frederick A. Cook.
Brooklyn Medical Papyrus
The Brooklyn Medical Papyrus, also called the Snakebite Papyrus or Traité d'Ophiologie, is an Egyptian papyrus in the Brooklyn Museum describing 38 snakes and giving about 140 snakebite treatments.
Brooklyn Mirage
The Brooklyn Mirage was an open-air electronic music venue at the Avant Gardner complex in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which opened in 2017 and closed in 2025.
Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum, founded 1823 as the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library and housed since 1897 in a McKim, Mead & White Beaux-Arts building at 200 Eastern Parkway, is an encyclopedic art museum with 140,000+ objects, the Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and NAGPRA repatriation programs.
Brooklyn Navy Yard
The Brooklyn Navy Yard, officially the New York Navy Yard, is a Brooklyn shipyard established in 1801 that built the USS Arizona and USS Missouri.
Brooklyn Nets
Brooklyn Nets, NBA Eastern Conference team at Barclays Center; formerly New Jersey Americans, New York Nets, New Jersey Nets. Two ABA titles (1974, 1976), Finals losses 2002-03, owned by Joe Tsai since 2019, rebuilding since 2023.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: American police procedural sitcom by Dan Goor and Michael Schur, set in NYPD's 99th Precinct, starring Andy Samberg and Andre Braugher. Fox 2013-2018, saved by NBC within about 31 hours, ended 2021 after eight seasons.
Brooklyn Storehouse
Brooklyn Storehouse is a large electronic-music and cultural event venue in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, opened in 2024 with a capacity of up to 5,000 people.
Brooklyn Sudano
Brooklyn Sudano (born 1981, Los Angeles) is an American actress and director, daughter of Donna Summer and Bruce Sudano. Known for Vanessa Scott on My Wife and Kids, Asha in NBC's Taken, and co-directing HBO's Love to Love You, Donna Summer (2023).
Brooklyn Technical High School
Brooklyn Technical High School (Brooklyn Tech, BTHS) is NYC's largest specialized public high school, at 5,848 students in Fort Greene, founded in 1922 by Dr. Albert L. Colston; admission is by SHSAT score only, with about 19 engineering and science majors.
Brooklyn Tower
Brooklyn Tower, also called 9 DeKalb Avenue or Flatbush Tower, is a 93-story, 1,066-foot residential supertall by SHoP Architects and JDS Development, Brooklyn's tallest building, completed 2023 atop the 1908 Dime Savings Bank.
Brooklyn-class cruiser
The Brooklyn-class cruiser was a class of nine United States Navy light cruisers built between 1935 and 1939, armed with fifteen 6-inch guns in five triple turrets and serving through World War II.
Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel
The Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel, officially the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel, carries four lanes of traffic under the East River between Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, and opened in 1950.
Brooklyn's Finest
Brooklyn's Finest is a 2010 Antoine Fuqua crime drama, also known by that title only, starring Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, and Wesley Snipes as three NYPD officers in Brownsville's Van Dyke projects; written by first-timer Michael C. Martin, it earned mixed reviews (RT 44%, Metascore 43) and $27.2M domestically.
Brooks
Brooks is the stage name of Thijs Westbroek, a Dutch DJ and producer from Eindhoven known for the 2018 hit "Like I Do" with Martin Garrix and David Guetta.
Brooks & Dunn
Brooks & Dunn, the American country duo of Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn formed in 1990 on Arista Nashville, are the best-selling country duo ever with 20 number-one hits, over 30 million albums, two Grammys, and 2019 Country Music Hall of Fame induction.
Brooks Barnhizer
Brooks Barnhizer (born 2002, Lafayette, Indiana) is an NBA guard/forward for the Oklahoma City Thunder, drafted 44th overall in 2025 from Northwestern, a defensive-minded Big Ten All-Defensive Team selection.
Brooks Brothers
Brooks Brothers is an American menswear retailer founded in New York in 1818, the oldest US apparel brand in continuous operation, known for the button-down oxford shirt.
Brooks Brothers riot
The Brooks Brothers riot was a November 22, 2000 demonstration by Republican operatives that disrupted and ended the Miami-Dade County presidential ballot recount in Florida.
Brooks Curry
Brooks Curry (Brooks Vaughn Curry), born 2001, American sprint freestyle swimmer from Dunwoody, Georgia; LSU two-time NCAA champion; Olympic gold (Tokyo 2020 4x100 free relay) and silver (Paris 2024 4x200 free relay); 2022 world champion.
Brooks Koepka
Brooks Koepka, born 1990, is an American professional golfer who has won five major championships, including three PGA Championships, and joined LIV Golf in 2022.
Brooks Laich
Brooks Laich, Canadian NHL center/left wing (2003-2018) for the Ottawa Senators, Washington Capitals, and Toronto Maple Leafs; 776 games, 332 points; acquired in the Peter Bondra trade, traded to Toronto in 2016.
Brooks Landgraf
Brooks Landgraf is an American politician and attorney, a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 81 in the Permian Basin since 2015.
Brooks Range
Brooks Range: east-west mountain range across northern Alaska, northernmost extension of the Rocky Mountains, about 970 km long, highest point Mount Isto (2,735.6 m), formed by a Jurassic-Cretaceous fold-and-thrust orogeny.
Brooks Robinson
Brooks Robinson (1937-2023), "The Human Vacuum Cleaner," Hall of Fame third baseman who spent all 23 seasons (1955-77) with the Baltimore Orioles, won 16 consecutive Gold Gloves, the 1964 AL MVP, and 1970 World Series MVP.
Brooks Sports
Brooks Sports (Brooks Running), founded 1914, Seattle-based Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary since 2006 selling running footwear and apparel in 50+ countries; No. 1 US adult performance running brand (21% share in 2023), $1.2B 2023 revenue, GuideRails and DNA Loft v3 foam.
Brooks Wackerman
Brooks Wackerman, born 1977 in Long Beach, California, is an American drummer who joined Avenged Sevenfold in 2015 after fourteen years with punk band Bad Religion.