Crooklyn, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Crooklyn n.

[SE Brooklyn + crook; the borough’s associations with (organized) crime]

(US black) Brooklyn, New York.

1994		S. Lee [film title] Crooklyn.
2002		‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 154: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Crooklyn. La-La. Illadelphia. Sugar Hill. Brick City.