Brooklyn Centre

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Neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, United States

title: "Brooklyn Centre" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["neighborhoods-in-cleveland", "german-american-culture-in-ohio", "german-communities-in-the-united-states", "irish-american-culture-in-cleveland", "polish-american-culture-in-cleveland", "polish-communities-in-the-united-states", "hispanic-and-latino-american-culture-in-ohio"] description: "Neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, United States" topic_path: "geography/united-states" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Centre" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, United States ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]

Field	Value
name	Brooklyn Centre
settlement_type	Neighborhood of Cleveland
image_skyline	NW view - Brooklyn Bank Building.jpg
image_caption	Brooklyn Bank Building
image_map	Cleveland City Neighborhoods - Brooklyn Centre.png
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	United States
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Ohio
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Cuyahoga County
subdivision_type3	City
subdivision_name3	Cleveland
population_as_of	2020
population_footnotes
population_total	9,392
population_density_km2	auto
demographics_type1	Demographics
demographics1_title1	White
demographics1_info1	61.1%
demographics1_title2	Black
demographics1_info2	21.1%
demographics1_title3	Hispanic (of any race)
demographics1_info3	37.8%
demographics1_title4	Asian and Pacific Islander
demographics1_info4	1.6%
demographics1_title5	Mixed and Other
demographics1_info5	16.1%
timezone	EST
utc_offset	-5
timezone_DST	EDT
utc_offset_DST	-4
postal_code_type	ZIP Codes
postal_code	44109
area_code	216
blank_name	Median income
blank_info	$31,613
footnotes	Source: 2020 U.S. Census, City Planning Commission of Cleveland
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History

Brooklyn Centre was founded in 1812 by James Fish and became the first settlement west of the Cuyahoga River. Two years later, around 200 people lived at Brooklyn Centre. By 1812, Brooklyn Centre became a township. In the early 1960s, the neighborhood was changed dramatically with the construction of I-71. Entire streets were lost and new cul-de-sacs and dead ends were created, changing the fabric of the neighborhood. In 1984, the City of Cleveland created the Brooklyn Centre Historic District, recognizing the location's historic and architectural importance.

In November 2004, The Brooklyn Centre Historical Society published Reflections from Brooklyn Centre: Presentations and Oral Histories from The Brooklyn Centre Historical Society. In November 2008, Brooklyn Centre became a National Wildlife Federation registered Community Wildlife Habitat Site, and was among the first city neighborhoods to obtain the designation.

The eastern portion of Brooklyn Centre is known as Barbarowa. Brooklyn Centre is bordered on the east by the Cuyahoga River I-176/The Jennings Freeway. The west border is I-71. The border to the south is Big Creek which runs through the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and is the largest tributary that flows into the Cuyahoga. The northern border is a city street named Trowbridge.

Demographics

Brooklyn Centre was originally settled by residents from Connecticut who had purchased land from investors of the Connecticut Western Reserve. German immigrants arrived starting in the late 19th century, followed by Polish and Irish arrivals in the early 20th century. These new settlers relocated to the east end of the neighborhood so that they would be close to the factories in and around the Cuyahoga Valley such as the tanneries and steel mills.

Today, Brooklyn Centre is a diverse neighborhood, with a mixed population of ethnic Europeans, African Americans, and, most prominently, a growing Hispanic community, Puerto Rican and otherwise. In 2020, the composition of the neighborhood was 61.1% white, 21.1% African American, 1.6% Asian and Pacific Islander, and 16.1% mixed and other groups. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 37.8% of the population. As of 2019, Brooklyn Centre had an estimated foreign-born population of 17.3%, with most being immigrants from Latin America (especially Guatemala, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico).

References

"Cleveland Neighborhoods and Wards: Brooklyn Centre Neighborhood Factsheet (2021)". The Center for Community Solutions (Cleveland).
"Archived copy".
"Brooklyn Centre". Brooklyn Centre Community Association.
"Map of Brooklyn Centre, Implemented by the City of Cleveland in 2012". Northern Ohio Data and Information Service (NODIS), [[Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs.
Congress, United States. (2012). "Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress". U.S. Government Printing Office.
"Brooklyn Centre National Wildlife Community: Brooklyn Centre National Wildlife Community is now among the REGISTERED Community Wildlife Habitat Sites".
"Barbarowa Neighborhood - Denison Ave., Cleveland, Ohio".
Miller, Carol Poh. (July 17, 1993). "Barbarowa: cultural resource report on a neighborhood of Cleveland".
"National Origins in Brooklyn Centre, Cleveland, Ohio (Neighborhood)". Statistical Atlas.

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