The Dutch Prime Minister was at the Brooklyn Museum on Sunday for a reception with Dutch
Americans and diplomatic officials from the Netherlands, when he was greeted by three reporters from the Brooklyn
Paper:

It’s official: Breukelen is dead.

The prime minster of the Netherlands, Jan Peter Balkenende, told The
Brooklyn Paper on Sunday that he will not step in to ensure that the
name of our ancestral Dutch home village be affixed permanently to a consolidation of the villages of Breukelen, Maarssen and the contemptible Loenen.

The prime minister was in town as part of New York and Holland’s
ongoing commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s
“discovery” of the river that would later bear his name. As such,
Balkenende spent most of Sunday afternoon making photo-op-style stops
at places of importance to the Dutch community, including the Wyckoff
Farmhouse Museum, the Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church.