Brooklyn has the labor force and the customer base to make your business thrive. Your Brooklyn-based business will benefit enormously from its proximity to both business partners and employees.  And clearly all these people couldn’t be wrong that Brooklyn is a great place to do business.

• Brooklyn is more than 71 square miles
• 2.5 million people live within the borough
• Together with its geographic and population size, Brooklyn is the fourth largest city in the nation 
• 19 million people within 50 miles
• Half of the population of the United States and Canada live within 500 miles
• Downtown Brooklyn is only 10 minutes from Lower Manhattan and 20 minutes from Midtown
• Brooklyn is home to 37,000 firms covering a wide range of industry groups 
• 1.1 million workers live in Brooklyn  

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