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 ".

The register of Lambeth degrees notes that in 1677, on taking his doctorate, Blow said that his birthplace was ‘ the faithful borough of Newark ’.

The borough of Auteuil, once home to Victor Hugo and Molière and the birthplace of Marcel Proust, was incorporated into the city of Paris in 1859-60 by the Law of 16 June 1859.

The land that would later constitute the borough was granted as a concession to Zacharie Dupuis in 1671 ; he named it Fief-de-Verdun for his birthplace at Saverdun in the south of France.

With a borough now being established, the Reverend Josiah Dillon, a pioneer clergyman, suggested the name to be changed to Coraopolis.

A man named Baker Pierce, who died in 1815, and whose remains were buried in the old pioneer graveyard at Osceola, appears to have been the first settler within the boundaries of Elkland borough.

The National Film Board maintains its head office in Saint-Laurent, a borough of Montreal, in the Norman McLaren electoral district, named in honour of the NFB animation pioneer.

He claimed that the agreement between his stepmother and Jim Thorpe, Pa., borough officials was made against the wishes of other family members who want him buried in Native American land.

The spelling changed to Harlem in keeping with contemporary English usage, and the district grew ( as part of the borough of Manhattan ) into the vibrant center of African American culture in New York City and the United States generally by the 20th century.

In 1991, Robert M. Morgenthau, the District Attorney for New York County ( coterminous with the borough of Manhattan ), disclosed that his office had found evidence that BCCI secretly owned First American.

The racial makeup of the borough was 96. 42 % White, 0. 54 % Black or African American, 0. 22 % Native American, 1. 38 % Asian, 0. 79 % from other races, and 0. 64 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the borough was 96. 32 % White, 0. 90 % Black or African American, 0. 18 % Native American, 1. 23 % Asian, 0. 04 % Pacific Islander, 0. 45 % from other races, and 0. 87 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the borough was 96. 10 % White, 0. 64 % Black or African American, 0. 26 % Native American, 1. 06 % Asian, 0. 14 % Pacific Islander, 0. 82 % from other races, and 0. 98 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the borough was 99. 32 % White, 0. 23 % African American, 0. 00 % Native American, 0. 11 % Asian, 0. 00 % Pacific Islander, 0. 00 % from other races, and 0. 34 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the borough was 91. 34 % White, 4. 42 % Black or African American, 0. 18 % Native American, 0. 41 % Asian, 0. 05 % Pacific Islander, 1. 70 % from other races, and 1. 90 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the borough was 96. 79 % White, 0. 81 % Black or African American, 0. 99 % Asian, 0. 03 % Pacific Islander, 0. 66 % from other races, and 0. 72 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the borough was 95. 03 % White, 1. 35 % Black or African American, 0. 16 % Native American, 1. 10 % Asian, 0. 07 % Pacific Islander, 1. 17 % from other races, and 1. 12 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the borough was 97. 23 % White, 0. 44 % African American, 0. 09 % Native American, 0. 87 % Asian, 0. 03 % Pacific Islander, 0. 50 % from other races, and 0. 83 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the borough was 96. 38 % White, 0. 63 % African American, 0. 08 % Native American, 1. 00 % Asian, 0. 02 % Pacific Islander, 0. 61 % from other races, and 1. 28 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the borough was 95. 83 % White, 2. 49 % African American, 0. 15 % Native American, 0. 15 % Asian, 0. 04 % Pacific Islander, 0. 52 % from other races, and 0. 82 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the borough was 92. 45 % White, 4. 31 % African American, 0. 06 % Native American, 1. 12 % Asian, 0. 08 % Pacific Islander, 0. 98 % from other races, and 1. 00 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the borough was 90. 34 % White, 1. 02 % African American, 0. 08 % Native American,. 025 % Asian, 0. 02 % Pacific Islander, 2. 57 % from other races, and 1. 67 % from two or more races.

The borough is known for the Homestead Strike of 1892, an important event in the history of labor relations in the United States.

According to borough leader James Kelly, this was in order to maintain the religious integrity of the community.

The current leader of the council is Cllr Mel Nott and the current mayor of the county borough is Cllr Marlene Thomas.

Quoting Edward Flynn, a Bronx County Democratic leader who ran the borough from 1922 until his death in 1953, he wrote "[...] the so-called ' independent ' voter is foolish to assume that a political machine is run solely on good will, or patronage.

The borough council leader is Bent Gether-Rønning from the Conservative Party, and the deputy leader is May-Brith Døssland of the Liberal Party.

At the most recent borough election in 2011 the town's four wards each elected two Conservative Party councillors, including the mayor of Wyre for 2011 David Bannister and the current leader of the council Peter Gibson.

The next year he was elected to the London County Council, and served as Conservative leader on the council until 1951, continuing to serve on the Council and the Hampstead borough council until 1955.

The borough of Kennett Square is a historical and present leader in mushroom production.

She was the second black woman to become leader of a British local authority, after Merle Amory in the northwest London borough of Brent.

These boroughs ranged in size from the most democratic borough of all, Westminster, which had 12, 000 famously radical voters in the late 18th century and was held by the Whig leader Charles James Fox, down to a rotten borough such as Gatton in Surrey, which in 1831 had a total of two voters.