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The borough is the subject of his song " My Hometown ", from the Born in the U. S. A. album, which described racial and economic tensions in the 1960s ( the " textile mill being closed " was the A & M Karagheusian, Inc. rug mill at Center and Jackson Streets ).
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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.
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Fair Haven was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 28, 1912, from portions of Shrewsbury Township, subject to the results of a referendum held on April 23, 1912.
Riverdale was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 12, 1923, from portions of Pequannock Township, subject to the results of a referendum passed on April 17, 1923.
What is now Wharton was originally incorporated as the borough of Port Oram by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on June 26, 1895, from portions of Randolph Township and Rockaway Township, subject to the results of a referendum passed on the previous day.
Far Hills was incorporated as a borough based on an Act of the New Jersey Legislature passed on April 7, 1921, from portions of Bernards Township, subject to the results of a referendum held on May 12, 1921.
Peapack and Gladstone was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 28, 1912, from portions of Bedminster Township, subject to the results of a referendum held on April 23, 1912.
The residents of the borough and their officers did not act quickly, since the petition to become subject to the Act of 1851 was not approved by Borough Council until July 25, 1905.
Though now free from constitutional control, it was still subject to the influence of corruption, which the English government had wielded through the Irish borough owners, known as the " undertakers ", or more directly through the great executive officers.
Throughout the period prior to Penzance gaining borough status in 1614 the village and surrounding areas continued to be within the control of the Manor of Alverton and was subject to the taxation regime of that manor.
The granting of county borough status was the subject of much disagreement between the large municipal boroughs and the county councils.
All Fire Police Officers are sworn officers of the law and when on duty shall display a badge of authority and shall be subject to control of the chief of police of the city, borough, town or township in which they are serving, or if none, of a member of the Pennsylvania State Police.
This was a fairly wide franchise for the period, but potentially subject to abuse since the Corporation of the borough had unlimited power to create freemen.
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* Jens Lekman has a song titled " Tram # 7 to Heaven ", a reference to line 7 of the Gothenburg tram which passes through his native borough of Kortedala.
* Singer Tom Russell wrote a song called Bergenfield, discussing the suicide via carbon monoxide of four teenagers in the borough in 1987.
* The Andrews Sisters launched a comical song called " Ho-Ho-Kus, N. J ." in 1948 which included a visit to the borough.
Based in The Bronx borough of New York City, the members of Terror Squad collectively debuted on a song in member Fat Joe's album Don Cartagena.
The lyrics of the song are about London, and especially Primrose Hill, a hill in the borough of Camden, North London.
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Of these remaining 48 states, 46 use the term " county " while Alaska and Louisiana use the terms " borough " and " parish ", respectively, for analogous jurisdictions.
These five are each called borough in context of City government – Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island ( formerly Richmond ); but are still called " county " where state function is involved, e. g., " New York County Courthouse ", not " Manhattan ".
They are Westminster, which is termed the City of Westminster as it has city status, Kingston upon Thames, Kensington and Chelsea, and ( since 2012 ) Greenwich, which are termed " Royal Borough of ", due to their Royal borough status.
In December 1963 it was announced that a charter was to be granted incorporating the new authority as " Westminster ", and that the Queen had accepted the advice of the Home Secretary to raise the London borough to the title and dignity of city.
Dictionaries list a number of possible origins for the originally Italian term, including " gheto " or " ghet ", which means slag or waste in Venetian, and was used in this sense in a reference to a foundry where slag was stored located on the same island as the area of Jewish confinement ( the Venetian Ghetto ), and borghetto, diminutive of borgo ‘ borough ’.
By 1773, a contemporary historian determined that " London may now be said to include two cities, one borough and forty six antient villages ", Paddington and adjoining Marybone ( Marylebone ) being named as two of those villages.
Harrow is considered a borough of " contrasts ", with high levels of affluence in such areas Harrow-on-the-Hill, Pinner, and Stanmore and high levels of deprivation in Wealdstone.
The motto of the borough is " Salus Populi Suprema Lex ", which means ( roughly translated ) " The Welfare of the People is the first great Law ".
In these early days, East Looe may have been a " planted borough ", a concept similar to modern new towns ; much of it is laid out in a grid-like pattern.
Frei means " free ", and Burg, like the modern English word " borough ", was used in those days for an incorporated city or town, usually one with some degree of autonomy.
Fair Lawn was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 6, 1924, as " Fairlawn ", from portions of Saddle River Township.
Teaneck's choice to incorporate as a township was unusual in an era of " Boroughitis ", in which a flood of new municipalities were being formed using the borough form of government.
On April 7, 1919, a council of citizens voted to incorporate as the borough of " Waldwick ", from the remaining portions of Orvil Township.
Controversy erupted in the borough in August 2008 when former Mayor LaPaglia described Councilmen Bader and Rosenblatt as " the temple twins ", an apparent reference to the Jewish religion.
In November 2011, Carr had been censured " for conduct detrimental to the orderly conduct of borough governance and violating standards of decorum and debate of a public body ", based on statements that she had made accusing a council member and borough employee of breaking state law, and of having claimed to have chaired meetings of the Englishtown Development Committee.
The borough was ultimately named for the " Washington House ", a tavern built by Revolutionary War Col. William McCullough in 1811 that was later destroyed by fire in 1869.
Other amenities included Olympic-sized public pools, parks, " greenbelts ", baseball fields and playgrounds, and a shopping center located in Tullytown borough that was considered large and modern at the time of its construction ( and in fact was the largest east of the Mississippi ).
The borough was originally called " Smithville ", after its first group of settlers.
Of the four communities in the United States named " Lewistown ", this borough is the largest.
The name " Mountain City ", however, is still a common nickname for the borough.
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