Sports bar, billiards & darts near Brooklyn Center, MN

Across the Mississippi from Brooklyn Center

Brooklyn Center and Fridley face each other across the Mississippi River. The river is Brooklyn Center's eastern boundary and Fridley's western one, so the bar is on the opposite bank, in Anoka County, while Brooklyn Center is in Hennepin County. Interstate 694 is a main highway in both cities.

Brooklyn Center became a village in 1911, when residents incorporated to keep from being annexed by Minneapolis, and it adopted a city charter in 1966. Interstates 94 and 694 and Highways 100 and 252 all pass through its 8 square miles. Shingle Creek runs through Palmer Lake, a preserve of more than 200 acres, before it reaches the Mississippi, and the Heritage Center, an 1878 country estate, is now a city-owned event center. For a night of pool or darts, cross the river to Fridley.

The village was formed from parts of Brooklyn Township and Crystal Lake Township, and the old road to Osseo is now Brooklyn Boulevard. Upper Twin Lake, in the southwest part of the city, covers 117 acres and connects to a chain of lakes that drains into Shingle Creek. North Mississippi Regional Park lines the river, Brookdale opened in 1960 as the population passed 24,000, and the FBI's Minneapolis field office is located here. Minneapolis lies directly to the south, and Brooklyn Park, the larger city that shares the Brooklyn name, grew out of the same township. PROMEON, a division of Medtronic, is the largest employer listed for the city, another tie to Fridley, where Medtronic has its operational headquarters.