A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected.

Accrington is a town in Lancashire, within the borough of Hyndburn.

The trackbed from Accrington to Baxenden is now a linear treelined cycleway / footpath. As of November 2011 Hyndburn borough council has plans to re-open the rail link to manchester.

A new feature-length documentary film by Edwin Pagan called Bronx Burning is in production in 2006, chronicling what led up to the numerous arson-for-insurance fraud fires of the 1970s in the borough.

Each borough is governed by a borough council ( Bezirksamt ) consisting of five councilors ( Bezirksstadträte ) and a borough mayor ( Bezirksbürgermeister ).

The borough council is elected by the borough assembly ( Bezirksverordnetenversammlung ).

" Great White Way " is a nickname for a section of Broadway in the Midtown section of the New York City borough of Manhattan, specifically the portion that encompasses the Theatre District, between 42nd and 53rd Streets, and encompassing Times Square.

A borough is an administrative division in various countries.

Often, a borough is a single town with its own local government.

In other places, such as Alaska, borough designates a whole region ; Alaska's largest borough, the North Slope Borough, is comparable in area to the entire United Kingdom.

In many parts of England, " borough " is pronounced as an independent word, and as when a suffix of a place-name.

In the United States, " borough " is pronounced or.

In Quebec, the term borough is generally used as the English translation of arrondissement, referring to an administrative division of a municipality.

In the United States, a borough is a unit of local government below the level of the state.

In Australia, the term " borough " is an occasionally used term for a local government area.

Currently there is only one borough in Australia, the Borough of Queenscliffe in Victoria, although there have been more in the past.

However, Neve Monosson is the first example of a full municipal borough actually declared under law by the Minister of the Interior, under a model subsequently adopted in Maccabim-Re ' ut as well.

It is the declared intention of the Interior Ministry to use the borough mechanism in order to facilitate municipal mergers in Israel, after a 2003 wide-reaching merger plan, which, in general, ignored the sensitivities of the communal settlements, and largely failed.

Three major arteries parallel to each other cut across the entire borough: Atlantic Avenue, which is a 6 lane 4 km avenue by the beachside, Nossa Senhora de Copacabana Avenue and Barata Ribeiro / Raul Pompéia Street both of which are 4 lanes and 3. 5 km in length.

The name of the village is Anglicized from the Dutch name Greenwijck, meaning " Pine District ", into Greenwich, a borough of London.

Hastings () is a town and borough in the county of East Sussex on the south coast of England.

He was also personally active in ward politics, and by 1924 O'Banion had acquired sufficient political might to be able to state: `` I always deliver my borough as per requirements ''.

As there was already a team named Fulham in the borough, the name of the adjacent borough of Chelsea was chosen for the new club, having also considered names like Kensington FC, Stamford Bridge FC and London FC.

Gardner would also join the Historical Association, being elected Co-President of its Bournemouth and Christchurch branch in June 1944, following which he became a vocal supporter for the construction of a local museum for the Christchurch borough.

Hastings was shown as a borough by the time of the Domesday Book ( 1086 ); it had also given its name to the Rape of Hastings, one of the six administrative divisions of Sussex.

Originally, VECs were formed for each administrative county and county borough, and also in a number of larger towns.

The Council also advises the Sovereign on the issuing of Royal Charters, which are used to grant special status to incorporated bodies, and city or borough status to local authorities.

The crowns also appear in the arms of the borough of Bury St. Edmunds and the University of East Anglia.

The motto is displayed on the borough seal and flag, which also feature a young robed woman bearing fasces, a traditional emblem of republicanism.

The name also survives in that of the county borough of the Vale of Glamorgan.

Some London borough councils also group together for such services as waste collection and disposal, e. g. the West London Waste Authority.

The ancient borough of Southwark was also known simply as The Borough — or Borough — and this name, in distinction from ' The City ', has persisted as an alternative name for the area.

In 1327 the City acquired from Edward III the original ' vill of Southwark ' and this was also described as " the borough ".

* The borough of Dunmore in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania is also named in his honour.

During the same period there were also mayors of the borough of whom the best known is William Wade ( fl.

A trolley also used to run in parts of the borough.

It is also among the smallest, consisting of little more than the rectangle of land around Naknek on the coast and King Salmon ( which, uniquely, serves as the borough seat for the neighboring Lake and Peninsula Borough ) inland.

Most of the land area belongs to Kodiak Island, but a thin strip of coastal area on the western part of the Alaska Peninsula and other nearby islands ( Afognak Island, Shuyak Island, Marmot Island, Raspberry Island, Little Raspberry Island, Whale Island, Spruce Island, Woody Island, Uganik Island, Sitkalidak Island, Tugidak Island, Sitkinak Island, Chirikof Island, and the Semidi Islands ) are also in the borough.

The borough is also the third-least densely populated county-level entity in the United States ( after the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area and the Lake and Peninsula Borough ).

Custom is also drawn from Plumstead and Woolwich ( in the neighbouring borough of Greenwich ).

There are also several railway stations in the borough.

The borough also currently contains two colleges of further education:

There is a further campus of the university at Avery Hill in Eltham, and also, outside the borough, in Medway.

Whilst Christianity is the dominant religion of the borough, several religious minorities are also active, and places of worship for Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus and Jews may be found.

Campus Living Villages UK also has its head office in the borough.