-BROOKLAND:
Not to be confused with Brookland, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. ´Brookland´ is the name by which Helmut Grokenberger refers to New York City district, Brooklyn, in Jim Jarmusch´s film ´A Night on Earth´. Helmut Grokenberg, an East Germany immigrant who has just arrived in New York City in the early nineties, works as a taxi driver while still managing to polish his English. His first costumer´s destination is Brooklyn, location to which Helmut keeps referring as Brookland throughout the taxi round. A specific location which the German man will end up calling ´New York, New York´ at the end of the taxi ride.
