Brooklyn Center is a first-ring suburban city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area.

[9] The population was 33,782 at the 2020 census,[4] and the city has become the most ethnically diverse community in the state.

Osseo Road was a main thoroughfare that brought settlers to an area centered around their school, post office, store, meeting hall, and Baptist and Methodist churches.

[11] The Hennepin County Board of Commissioners accepted a petition to incorporate the Village of Brooklyn Center on January 16, 1911.

[7] By 1940, the village saw a need for more organized planning to deal with issues such as sewage and traffic.

In 1963, even more new opportunities for commercial development were presented with the estate of Earle Brown, deceased, the heir of Captain John Martin who had been one of the wealthiest men in Minneapolis.

The buildings included the family home, office and garage, housing for the workers, a pump house, multiple barns, a hippodrome, an antique carriage collection, and a restored lumber bunkhouse and cook shanty.

Due to elevated racial tensions and anti-police sentiment because of the concurrent Derek Chauvin trial, riots and looting broke out.

California Congresswoman Maxine Waters traveled to the city to hold a rally for the protestors, which only encouraged the rioting.

[15] The city worked with Juxtaposition Arts on a permanent memorial to Wright.

[19] Southwestern Brooklyn Center includes Upper Twin Lake[20] (117 acres)[21] and connects to a chain of lakes that discharge into Shingle Creek, which discharges into the Mississippi River.

[26] The Plant Hardiness Zone is 4B, with an average minimum extreme temperature of -25 to -20 Fahrenheit.

[29] Interstates 94 and 694 and Minnesota State Highways 100 and 252 are four of the main routes in Brooklyn Center.

The FBI's Minneapolis field office is located in Brooklyn Center.

The Brooklyn Center Police Department was established in 1953, the city having previously had elected constables and appointed marshals.

Of these, the violent crimes consisted of 1 murder, 38 forcible rapes, 68 robberies and 88 aggravated assaults, while 106 burglaries, 703 larceny-thefts, 187 motor vehicle thefts and 12 acts of arson defined the property offenses.