Brooklyn
About Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located at the westernmost end of Long Island and formerly an independent city, Brooklyn shares a land border with the borough and county of Queens. It has several bridge and tunnel connections to the borough of Manhattan, across the East River, including the architecturally significant Brooklyn Bridge, and is connected to Staten Island by the Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge.
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Brooklyn went from having 13 actual hotels to having 800 hotels in six months, which is insane. It led to lots of casual sex and prostitution happening because you got really, really drunk not eating your sandwiches and there was a bedroom right upstairs.
from No Such Thing As A Didgeridoo in a Bar, 2020-09-25 at 00:03:49 · read transcript
Other times Brooklyn came up
More, Gordon Moore, he was a very cool guy, very interesting guy, co-founded Intel. He became incredibly rich obviously and gave loads and loads of his money away to protect the Amazon, protecting salmon rivers because of Fred Keem fishermen But he founded Intel with Robert Noyce was his colleague And they wanted to call their invented Brooklyn 99. They wanted to call the company more noise This is more noise than anything else and they certainly they thought it wouldn't be right for an electronics company would be appropriate So they called it noise computers in town.
519: No Such Thing As A Noice Computer, 2024-02-22 · listen
It has this to say about the Good Humor trucks, because he kind of invented the ice cream truck in a way as well. It said the white shirt and the cap the drivers sported helped create a mythology around the Good Humor brand of trustworthiness and dependability. That lasted until the mid-1970s, when the Brooklyn District Attorney's office filed a 244 count indictment of Good Humor, charging the company with falsifying records to hide excessive amounts of bacteria. What?
328: No Such Thing As A Romantic Lollipop, 2020-07-03 · listen
This is insane and I'm pretty sure this is Derek's generated fact. I think he's the first person to notice this, which is so cool. Okay. There are all these subway tunnels connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn, right? One of them is called the Montague Tunnel. Presumably not named after the family and Romeo and Juliet. No, it gets its name from the street that it runs underneath once it reaches Brooklyn, which is Montague Street.
No Such Thing As Radioactive Jenga, 2024-09-12 · listen
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Coordinates: 40.6500, -73.9500