the neck brooklyn really was in industrial powerhouse. i had no idea. with the textile factories and sugar refinery

innovative entrepreneurs of the 20th-century up the checklist of the paint of domino sugar. and in 1849 chemist one of the immigrants to arrive during that period was one of the largest service and local companies in the world. and for inventing such central products such as aloft -- and do not forget the niagara. over the years they have employed millions of immigrants but history is fickle am brooklyn shifted the second half of the 20th century. the factories that sustained

those americans not for china or mexico but far less crowded and then to break apart of every red bullet it brooklyn member to take the bonds as they were referred to an bin retrospect and by the '60s to become a sad empty shell of the former self in 1966 the navy yard during world war two was the largest and best known employer was decommissioned. by the time i moved and a mile away it was a few operating warehouse with the

occasional body reportedly dumped by the legendary wise guy. there's still plenty of holdovers at the time with an elderly average couple took it bin as they did in the brownstone areas of brooklyn with the decades following now they are paid by the city of new york to help the elderly and that was the musical accompaniment in the children's early years. but in fact, brooklyn was losing population and then later the famous author would say about this time is

that you heard it over and over in those days we've got to get out of brooklyn. and a lot of people did. so the question i had in my mind was how did the old brooklyn become the new brooklyn? that "gq" magazine called the coolest city on the planet. how is it liquor stores had bulletproof cages and now they are picture windows with their expensive wine collection? how could we have gotten to the point in history where the fabled parisian store spent one month celebrating brooklyn mania.

how could the only chic parisian be so interested to seem as though they are by a brooklyn night. and one final question, why should anybody cares what happens to brooklyn? it is not even a city it is a borough with to a million six and thousand people in this city of 8 million what is the big deal? but the reason we should be interested it is a microcosm for the social changes and it should be mentioned the politics of europe and over the past 30 or 40 years in advance economies have been shifting away from manufacturing toward

knowledge and information or to think about stuff. new york city was already becoming a capital by the '60s as a centralized and moved their headquarters to downtown. the 59 percent of the new york city labor force was white-collar occupations and this gave your k competitive advantage most of the people that are white-collar that are predominantly men or by dick van dyke that fictional husband but a few of those

white caller workers started to move near brooklyn. to use the word with brooklyn heights and then you could trace those on the map. and those said have gone into disrepair. within the white caller workers increased the government was expanding and though long with them by the 2000 technology is opening up technology for the creative wondering if they have never heard of before with the domino sugar

refinery may be gone but the new brooklyn so the of consultants so the house next tour timmy referred to earlier with the shift to the new knowledge economy. that is really gentrification in the brownstone. also the irish couple was living there like other immigrants that had the civil service job his wife had been in charge but fast-forward 15 years the house was sold and renovated and subdivided into condominiums. so the first people to move

in those that you would never have met. and real simple and the music magazine. and said after his wife moved in with a free-lance writer same house old brooklyn and new brooklyn.