Editing Brooklyn (section)

==Culture==
{{Main|Culture of Brooklyn}}
{{See also|Culture of New York City|LGBT culture in New York City#Brooklyn|Media of New York City}}
[[File:Brooklyn Museum Front Entrance.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Brooklyn Museum]] on [[Eastern Parkway]] ]]
[[File:Bridge to Eden.jpg|thumb|right|[[Brooklyn Botanic Garden]]]]
[[File:The Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch at Grand Army Plaza.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch]] at [[Grand Army Plaza]]]]
Brooklyn has played a major role in various aspects of American culture, including literature, cinema, and theater. [[New York accent|Brooklyn's accent]] has often been portrayed as the "typical New Yorker accent" in American media, although this accent and its stereotypes are supposedly diminishing in currency.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://nypost.com/2010/02/06/why-the-classic-noo-yawk-accent-is-fading-away/|title=Why the classic Noo Yawk accent is fading away|author=Sheila McClear|newspaper=New York Post|date=February 6, 2010|access-date=March 29, 2016}}</ref> Brooklyn's official colors are blue and gold.<ref>Borough of Brooklyn.[http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/Press/2002/apr16.htm blue and gold] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061001185349/http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/Press/2002/apr16.htm |date=October 1, 2006 }}</ref>

===Cultural venues===
Brooklyn hosts the world-renowned [[Brooklyn Academy of Music]], the [[Brooklyn Philharmonic]], and the second-largest public art collection in the United States, housed in the [[Brooklyn Museum]].

The Brooklyn Museum, opened in 1897, is New York City's second-largest public art museum. It has in its permanent collection more than 1.5&nbsp;million objects, from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art. The [[Brooklyn Children's Museum]], the world's first museum dedicated to children, opened in December 1899. The only such New York State institution accredited by the [[American Alliance of Museums]], it is one of the few globally to have a permanent collection{{spnd}}over 30,000 cultural objects and natural history specimens.

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) includes a 2,109-seat opera house, an 874-seat theater, and the art-house BAM Rose Cinemas. [[Bargemusic]] and St. Ann's Warehouse are on the other side of Downtown Brooklyn in the [[DUMBO]] arts district. [[Brooklyn Technical High School]] has the second-largest auditorium in New York City (after [[Radio City Music Hall]]), with a [[seating capacity]] of over 3,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/ChoicesEnrollment/High/Directory/school/?sid=3330#AdditionalInformationAnchor |title=Brooklyn Technical High School, K430, Borough of Brooklyn|publisher=Schools.nyc.gov |date=October 31, 2008 |access-date=October 24, 2010}}</ref>

===Media===
====Local periodicals====
Brooklyn has several local newspapers: The ''[[Brooklyn Eagle|Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]'', ''[[Bay Currents]]'' (Oceanfront Brooklyn), ''Brooklyn View'', ''[[The Brooklyn Paper]]'', and Courier-Life Publications. Courier-Life Publications, owned by Rupert Murdoch's [[News Corporation (1980–2013)|News Corporation]], is Brooklyn's largest chain of newspapers. Brooklyn is also served by the major New York dailies, including ''[[The New York Times]]'', the ''[[New York Daily News]]'', and the ''[[New York Post]]''. Several others are now defunct, including the {{anchor|Brooklyn Union}}''Brooklyn Union'' (1867–1937),<ref name="nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/all/424">{{cite web |title=Kings County (NY) newspapers on microfilm and paper at all New York State locations |url=https://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/all/424.htm |website=New York State Newspapers |publisher=The New York State Library |access-date=March 16, 2023}}</ref><ref name="brooklyn-union/12381">{{cite news |title=The Brooklyn Union |url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/paper/the-brooklyn-union/12381/ |access-date=March 15, 2023 |work=[[Newspapers.com]] |language=en}}</ref> and the {{anchor|Brooklyn Times}}''[[Brooklyn Times]]''.<ref name="nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/all/424"/>

The borough is home to the arts and politics monthly ''[[Brooklyn Rail]]'', as well as the arts and cultural quarterly ''[[Cabinet (magazine)|Cabinet]]''. ''[[Hello Mr.]]'' is also published in Brooklyn.

''Brooklyn Magazine'' is one of the few glossy magazines about Brooklyn. Several others are now defunct, including ''BKLYN Magazine'' (a bimonthly lifestyle book owned by Joseph McCarthy, that saw itself as a vehicle for high-end advertisers in Manhattan and was mailed to 80,000 high-income households), ''Brooklyn Bridge Magazine'', ''The Brooklynite'' (a free, glossy quarterly edited by Daniel Treiman), and ''NRG'' (edited by Gail Johnson and originally marketed as a local periodical for Clinton Hill and Fort Greene, but expanded in scope to become the self-proclaimed "Pulse of Brooklyn" and then the "Pulse of New York").<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.nysun.com/new-york/latest-boom-in-brooklyn-is-in-failures-of-glossy/35443/ |journal=New York Sun |title=Latest Boom in Brooklyn is in Failures of Glossy Magazines |author=Leon Neykakh |date=July 5, 2006 |access-date=March 22, 2013 |archive-date=June 5, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605014745/http://www.nysun.com/new-york/latest-boom-in-brooklyn-is-in-failures-of-glossy/35443/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

====Ethnic press====
Brooklyn has a thriving ethnic press. ''[[El Diario La Prensa]]'', the largest and oldest Spanish-language daily newspaper in the United States, maintains its corporate headquarters at 1&nbsp;[[MetroTech Center]] in [[downtown Brooklyn]].<ref>"[http://www.impremedia.com/contact/ Contact] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612015643/http://www.impremedia.com/contact/ |date=June 12, 2010 }}." [[ImpreMedia]]. Retrieved June 1, 2010.</ref> Major ethnic publications include the Brooklyn–Queens Catholic paper ''[[The Tablet (Diocese of Brooklyn)|The Tablet]]'', ''[[Hamodia]]'', an Orthodox Jewish daily, and ''[[The Jewish Press]]'', an Orthodox Jewish weekly. Many nationally distributed ethnic newspapers are based in Brooklyn. Over 60 ethnic groups, writing in 42 languages, publish some 300 non-English language magazines and newspapers in New York City. Among them is the quarterly ''[[L'Idea]]'', a bilingual magazine printed in Italian and English since 1974. In addition, many newspapers published abroad, such as ''[[Gleaner Company|The Daily Gleaner]]'' and ''[[The Jamaica Star|The Star]]'' of Jamaica, are available in Brooklyn.{{citation needed|date=March 2013}} ''[[Our Time Press]]'', published weekly by DBG Media, covers the Village of Brooklyn with a motto of "The Local Paper with the Global View".

====Television====
The City of New York has an official television station, run by [[NYC Media]], which features programming based in Brooklyn. [[Brooklyn Community Access Television]] is the borough's [[public access television|public access channel]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.qptv.org/content/bric-brooklyns-community-access-television|title=BRIC: Brooklyn's Community Access Television {{!}} qptv.org|website=www.qptv.org|access-date=November 21, 2019|archive-date=December 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191225193016/https://www.qptv.org/content/bric-brooklyns-community-access-television|url-status=dead}}</ref> Its studios are at the [[BRIC Arts Media]] venue, called BRIC House, located on [[Fulton Street (Brooklyn)|Fulton Street]] in the [[Fort Greene]] section of the borough.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bricartsmedia.org/about-bric|title=About BRIC|first=BRIC|last=admini|date=March 9, 2016|website=BRIC}}</ref>

===Events===
* The annual [[Coney Island Mermaid Parade]] (mid-to-late June) is a costume-and-float parade.<ref name="Ward, Nathan">{{cite journal |author=Ward, Nathan |url=http://americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2005/4/2005_4_26.shtml |title=Brooklyn Rising |journal=[[American Heritage (magazine)|American Heritage]] |date=August–September 2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070527151419/http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2005/4/2005_4_26.shtml |archive-date=May 27, 2007 }}</ref>
* Coney Island also hosts the annual [[Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest]] (July 4).<ref name="Ward, Nathan" />
* The annual [[Labor Day Carnival]] (also known as the Labor Day Parade or West Indian Day Parade) takes place along [[Eastern Parkway]] in [[Crown Heights, Brooklyn|Crown Heights]].
* The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival runs annually around the second week of June.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theartofbrooklyn.org/|title=The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival|website=The Art of Bklyn|access-date=June 30, 2017}}</ref>