I felt superior to the neighborhood friends I was leaving behind, felt older than my years, and was full of compliments for myself as I headed into the subway that was carrying its packs of passengers out of that dull borough and into the unstable, tantalizing excitement of Manhattan.

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 ''.

Under the Local Government Act 1972 the urban district was abolished in 1974, becoming part of the borough of Islwyn, Gwent.

Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York on January 17, 1899.

The area was originally part of the Worcestershire parish of King's Norton, and was added to the county borough of Birmingham in Warwickshire on October 1, 1891.

In smaller boroughs, a town council was formed for the area of the abolished borough, while charter trustees were formed in other former boroughs.

However, no borough was actually created under law until 2005 – 2006, when Neve Monosson and Maccabim-Re ' ut, both communal settlements ( Heb: yishuv kehilati ) founded in 1953 and 1984, respectively, were declared to be autonomous municipal boroughs ( Heb: vaad rova ironi ), within their mergers with the towns of Yehud and Modi ' in.

He was born in the Queens borough of New York, New York, as a son of Jayne ( née Quinlan ), of Irish descent, and John George Costas, an electrical engineer of Greek descent.

In 1994, the administrative county ( which did not include the county borough of Dublin ) was dissolved and the area divided among the administrative counties of Dún Laoghaire – Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin each with its county seat.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the crest of the former metropolitan borough of Greenwich was used as a symbol for the club but this was not used on the team's shirts.

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.

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.

It remained a municipal borough until 1974, when it was merged into the South Hams district, and became a successor parish of Dartmouth with a town council.

The situation was greatly complicated by the large number of landowners involved: the PLA, the Greater London Council ( GLC ), the British Gas Corporation, five borough councils, British Rail and the Central Electricity Generating Board.

He went to the City of Leicester Boys ' Grammar School ( now City of Leicester College ) on Downing Drive in Evington, inside the borough of Leicester due to his preference for football rather than rugby, which was the main sport of most schools near his home.

Hradčany was an independent borough until 1784, when the four independent boroughs that had formerly constituted Prague were proclaimed a single city.

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.

Hastings, it is thought, was a Saxon town before the arrival of the Normans: the Domesday Book refers to a new Borough: as a borough, Hastings had a corporation consisting of a " bailiff, jurats, and commonalty ".

Accrington became incorporated as a municipal borough in 1878.

Each borough contains a number of localities ( Ortsteile ), which often have historic roots in older municipalities that predate the formation of Greater Berlin on 1 October 1920 and became urbanized and incorporated into the city.

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 borough of Wernigerode is divided into the town itself, including the villages of Hasserode and Nöschenrode incorporated before 1994 and five villages with their own parish councils that were integrated in 1994: Benzingerode, Minsleben, Reddeber, Schierke and Silstedt.

The town was then incorporated as a borough.

* Newtown ( borough ), Connecticut, incorporated Borough in Fairfield County

* Brighton was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1854, later becoming a county borough under the Local Government Act 1888 ; it covered the parish of Brighton and part of Preston

* Hove became incorporated as a municipal borough in 1898

Charters originated as charters of incorporation, allowing a town to become an incorporated borough, or to hold markets.

Latrobe was incorporated as a borough in 1854, and as a city in 1999.

Columbia became an incorporated borough in 1814, formed out of Hempfield Township.

Located adjacent to the Moravian Church on of land, Linden Hall School was founded by the Moravians in 1746, a decade before the borough was incorporated.

Later the towns name was changed to Millersville and was incorporated as a separate borough in Lancaster County.

There are five incorporated cities and two unincorporated villages within the borough.

The Denali Borough is a borough located in the U. S. state of Alaska and was incorporated in 1990.

The borough seat is the incorporated city of Fairbanks.

The only other incorporated city in the borough is North Pole, a small city which is dwarfed in population by nearby census-designated places generally regarded as being part of North Pole but outside its city limits.

The borough seat is Soldotna, its third-largest incorporated community.

< nowiki >*</ nowiki > Boroughs are incorporated portions of one or more towns with separate borough councils, zoning boards, and borough officials.

There is one incorporated borough, Danielson.

< nowiki >*</ nowiki > Boroughs are incorporated portions of one or more towns with separate borough councils, zoning boards, and borough officials.

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.

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.

The Encyclopedia of New York City, ( Yale University Press and The New-York Historical Society, ( 1995 ) ISBN 0-300-05536-6 ), has entries, maps, illustrations, statistics and bibliographic references on almost all of the significant topics in this article, from the entire borough to individual neighborhoods, people, events and artistic works.

The borough of Spandau lies partly within the Berlin Glacial Valley and partly on the Nauen Plain, which stretches to the west of Berlin.

Policy on buying and stocking Blyton's books by British public libraries drew attention in newspaper reports from the early 1960s to the end of the 1970s, as local decisions were made by a London borough, Birmingham, Nottingham and other central libraries.

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 Servette FC, a football club founded in 1890 and named after a borough on the right bank of the Rhône.

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

The borough of Travemünde is a sea resort and ferry port on the coast of the Baltic Sea.

The product was unveiled 3 December 2001, in Bryant Park, the privately managed public park located in the New York City borough of Manhattan, on the ABC News morning program Good Morning America.

Scenes were filmed near Evans City, Pennsylvania, north of Pittsburgh in rural Butler County ; the opening sequence was shot at the Evans City Cemetery on Franklin Road, south of the borough.

It broadened the franchise and ended the system of " rotten borough " and " pocket boroughs " ( where elections were controlled by powerful families ), and instead redistributed power on the basis of population.

It has been suggested that Pitt was in fact a far more orthodox Whig than has been historically portrayed demonstrated by his sitting for rotten borough seats controlled by arisocratic magnates, and his lifelong concern for protecting the balance of power on the European continent-which marked him out from many other Patriots.

Staines-upon-Thames, often referred to by its former name Staines (), is a town on the north bank of the River Thames in the borough of Spelthorne in Surrey, England ( historically in Middlesex ).

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

Each borough president had a powerful administrative role derived from having a vote on the New York City Board of Estimate, which was responsible for creating and approving the city's budget and proposals for land use.

In 1989, the Supreme Court of the United States declared the Board of Estimate unconstitutional because Brooklyn, the most populous borough, had no greater effective representation on the Board than Staten Island, the least populous borough, a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause pursuant to the high court's 1964 " one man, one vote " decision.