I had some similar thoughts along those lines. Bethel headquarters is/was in Brooklyn, the United Nations headquarters is in Manhattan and the city of Babylon is about 20 miles west, on Long Island.
Maybe there's more to the WT mass Exodus out of Brooklyn.
Wikipedia article on the history of Babylon, NY:
"The region was once called Huntington South. Nathaniel Conklin moved his family to the area, eventually calling it "New Babylon", naming it after the ancient town of Babylon around 1803. The town was officially formed in 1872 by a partition of the Town of Hunington."
By the way, former WWE diva Ashley Massaro was born there.