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.

A remarkable early tenth-century document, known as the Burghal Hidage, provides a formula for determining how many men were needed to garrison a borough, based on one man for every of wall.

Perhaps best known for the portion that runs through the borough of Manhattan in New York City, it actually runs through Manhattan and The Bronx, exiting north from the city to run an additional through the municipalities of Yonkers, Hastings-On-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, Tarrytown and terminating north of Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County.

The town was an ancient borough, incorporated by Edward III, known formally as Clifton-Dartmouth-Hardness, and consisting of the three parishes of St Petrox, St Saviour and Townstall, and incorporating the hamlets of Ford, Old Mill and Norton.

The Marx children grew up on East 93rd Street off Lexington Avenue in a neighborhood now known as Carnegie Hill on the Upper East Side of the borough of Manhattan, in New York City.

The largest borough, Westminster, had approximately 12, 000 voters, while the smallest, usually known as " rotten boroughs " had, in most cases, fewer than a hundred each.

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.

42nd Street is a major crosstown street on the Island and New York City borough of Manhattan, known for its theaters, especially near the intersection with Broadway at Times Square.

Between Bolton and Mansfield, the road passed through the borough of North Coventry, entirely along present-day U. S. Route 44, known locally as the Boston Turnpike.

From 1552 to 1832 Tintagel was a parliamentary borough ( generally known as the Borough of Bossiney ) sending two members to the House of Commons.

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

The original ecclesiastical centre at St. Canice's Cathedral became known as Irishtown and the Anglo-Norman borough inside the wall came to be known as Hightown.

If the application had been accepted the borough would have been known as the City of Greenwich, similarly to the City of Westminster.

The heraldic beast on the shield of the Enfield coat of arms is known in heraldry as an " Enfield " ( or colloquially as the Enfield beast ), and is used extensively as a logo representing Enfield, particularly by the borough council.

In the north of the borough on the eastern side is Barnet, also known as High Barnet or Chipping Barnet, Totteridge, and Whetstone.

The borough derives its name from the historic parish of Merton which was centred on the area now known as South Wimbledon.

The borough is governed by a democratically elected council, known interchangeably by the full name and as Hillingdon Council.

It was known as the ' London Borough of Hammersmith ' until its name was changed on 1 January 1979 by the borough council.

West Looe was given free borough status sometime after this ( the first known historical mention of the town dates from 1327 ) and in the 1230s East Looe gained the right to hold a weekly market and a Michaelmas fair.

Formerly an incorporated borough, the town center of Colchester is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district, known as the Colchester Village Historic District.

The original Flushing ( located in the borough of Queens, NY ) was first settled in 1645 and is named after the city of Vlissingen, Holland-also known as Flushing, Netherlands.

* Peter " Produce Pete " Napolitano ( born c. 1941 ), grocer best known for his long-running television news produce segments and as a spokesman for the Pathmark supermarket chain who owns Napolitano's Produce in the borough.

* Peter " Produce Pete " Napolitano ( born c. 1941 ), grocer best known for his long-running television news produce segments and as a spokesman for the Pathmark supermarket chain who owns Napolitano's Produce in the borough.

The second section is known as Morsemere, and is located in the northern part of the borough.

Portions of the township were taken to form Little Egg Harbor Township ( February 13, 1740, now part of Ocean County ), Washington Township ( November 19, 1802 ), Pemberton borough ( December 15, 1826 ), Coaxen Township ( March 10, 1845, now known as Southampton Township ), Pemberton Township ( March 10, 1846 ), Westampton Township ( March 6, 1850 ) and Lumberton Township ( March 14, 1860 ).