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May 7, 2017 7:21 am at 7:21 am
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lesschumras
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Brooklyn is not two names mashed together. When the western tip of Long Island was settled by the Dutch in tn the 1600’s, they named the settlement Breuckelen after the Dutch city
Lynnbrook, , a village in Nassau County was renamed Lynnbrook in 1894 by reversing the two syllables in Brooklyn. It was done because many of its residents cane from Brooklyn