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Brooklyn, New York

Also Brooklyn

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Locator map: Brooklyn, New York highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypePlace
Coordinates40.6508° N, 73.9833° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
ErasModern era
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Locator map: Brooklyn, New York highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Place
Coordinates
40.6508° N, 73.9833° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
communitymilitary

Summary

Brooklyn is a New York City borough used here as a borough-level anchor for held records that identify activity there but not a precise venue.

Open questions

  • Can service records identify a more precise assignment location for the people connected to Brooklyn notices?

Sources

  1. Records a borough-level coordinate near 40°39′03″N, 73°56′59″W. This is a geographic anchor, not a coordinate for an individual station, residence, or military assignment.

Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Brooklyn, New York”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/brooklyn-new-york/, accessed [date], citing Wikidata, Brooklyn (Q18419), coordinate location, retrieved 2026-08-02..

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