There was a famous joke that originated when a fan had to leave Ebbets Field before the completion of a Dodgers game. As he entered the cab, the driver asked him how the contest was going. “Pretty good,” the passenger replied. “The Dodgers have three men on base.” The cabbie responded, “Yeah, which base?”

The earliest inhabitants of Brooklyn were a group of several organized bands of Native American people with shared cultural and linguistic characteristics known as the Lenni Lenape (the “true people”) or as the Delaware Indians.

It has been said that the Ice Age ended in Brooklyn.