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Brooklyn Today
ON THIS DAY IN 1927, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Boro’s Population Rises to 2,274,000.”
The article focused on population growth in Brooklyn compared to the other boroughs.
“Postmaster Albert Firmin of Brooklyn, speaking today at the weekly luncheon of the Brooklyn Rotary Club in the Hotel Bossert, said that he had written to the Census Bureau at Washington, and had learned that the population of Brooklyn was 2,274,000, as of July 1, 1927,” the Eagle reported. “This is 459,00 more than the Boro of Manhattan.”