Kings County
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- Population
- 2,631,580
- Area
- 69.37 sq mi (179.68 km²), 27.48 sq mi water
- Median age
- 36.5
- Households
- 1,009,927
- Persons per household
- 2.6
- Median household income
- $80,263
- Median house value
- $905,000
Demographics: 2020–2024 ACS
Kings County
An independent city — coextensive with this county-equivalent, so it is governed as a city and reported as a county.
Local News
Gothamist
Published 16 hours agoThese 3 programs help New Yorkers afford food. Not many people know they exist.
Free food is distributed to residents in need at a weekly food bank at Our Lady of Refuge Church in Brooklyn on February 28, 2024 in New York City. With major federal changes to food stamp benefits, there are other programs that can help. [ more › ]
Brooklyn Paper
Published 16 hours agoCity, Jewish leaders unite in Williamsburg for High Holiday food help, opening kosher pantry
As they sought to address hunger during the Jewish High Holy Days, city officials and community leaders cut the ribbon on a new kosher food pantry and delivered food to families preparing for the holidays. The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty distributed food to the United…
Brooklyn Paper
Published 18 hours ago25 voices, 25 years later: How Brooklyn remembers 9/11
Twenty-five years later, Sept. 11, 2001, remains etched into the memories of Brooklynites who watched the skyline change, worried about loved ones in Manhattan and spent hours trying to find their way home. For some, 9/11 memories begin with smoke rising over the East River. For…
Brooklyn Paper
Published 18 hours ago‘Love took over’: Brooklyn woman remembers the quiet job that kept Ground Zero connected, and the kindness that followed
Twenty-five years later, Gina Ruberto remembers 9/11 through two very different images. The first is the one most people know: the towers falling, Lower Manhattan disappearing beneath the smoke and debris and a city suddenly thrown into unimaginable chaos. The second is what…
New York Amsterdam News
Published 18 hours agoFor New York’s Haitian community, annual West Indian Day Parade means more in trying times
Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway will buzz with steel drums and flag-draped floats on Monday during the West Indian Day Parade. But Haitians are marching under more solemn circumstances this year.