16 Amazing Quotes About Brooklyn

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Quotes about Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough in New York City and host to a thriving art and cultural scene and a growing innovation economy. With as many as two hundred different languages and a population that is nearly 40% foreign born, Brooklyn’s diversity is a shining example of multiculturalism at work in the United States. We’ve found 16 amazing quotes about Brooklyn.

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn’t change that experience for anything.
Neil Diamond
Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn’t happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?
Betty Smith
Apparently Brooklyn needn’t always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan…. Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbush, to be its grubby, enduring self.
Jonathan Lethem
It happened every single day in Brooklyn: awaken to fresh glory, fall asleep to blight and ruin.
Kate Christensen
Late June in Brooklyn is like the very beginning of a party-when the music is really good, but you know that it’s about to get way better, so you just do a little two-step before the real turn-up starts.
Ibi Zoboi
I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it’s obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students.
Imogen Binnie
Manhattan is like Beverly Hills. And the soul of New York has moved to Brooklyn, where everything new and exciting seems to be.
Alec Baldwin
I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw the skyscrapers. It was like an incredible dream.
Diego Della Valle
I didn’t know exactly what a hipster was until we were in Brooklyn. It’s like a species. On first seeing it, I was like, ‘Oh my God, oh my God…’ Pre-tt-y fun-ny.
Travis Fimmel
I like L.A., but I’m definitely a Brooklyn girl; I’m a city girl. I need the cars honking. I need the bright lights. I need people yelling in the middle of the night screaming at each other. I need all of that.
Justine Skye
When you live in Brooklyn, if you throw a rock, you’ll hit a writer – Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Auster.
Libba Bray
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
Barbra Streisand
Shooting in Brooklyn is like opening a time capsule. Nothing has changed. Everything looks like it did in the eighties.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
Brooklyn just got that energy to me that’s so hip-hop and so New York City. You know, New York City is the grittiest city in the world.
Statik Selektah
Brooklyn is kind of my writer’s retreat.
Tracy K. Smith

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