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 ".

In 1784 Francis was returned to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the borough of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight ; and although he took an opportunity to disclaim every feeling of personal animosity towards Hastings, this did not prevent him, on the return of the latter in 1785, from doing all in his power to bring forward and support the charges which ultimately led to the impeachment resolutions of 1787.

The court leet began to decline in the fourteenth century, being superseded by the more modern county Justices of the Peace and ultimately magistrates ' courts, but in many cases courts leet operated until nearly the middle of the nineteenth century as a form of civil administration with a similar role to borough freemen or parish vestrymen.

However, these two parliamentary seats ultimately made Newtown borough one of the most notorious of the rotten boroughs, prevalent in the UK before reforms in the 19th century.

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

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

* A neighbourhood in New York City's borough of Staten Island is named Huguenot, and the city of New Rochelle, New York, is named after La Rochelle, a former Huguenot stronghold in France.

In 1857 a park was opened some 3 miles north of Finsbury for the enjoyment of the residents of the parliamentary borough, and named Finsbury Park.

The current name of the borough omits hyphens to distinguish it from the similarly named former municipal 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.

* Mayow Park, originally named Sydenham Recreation Ground, this is the borough ’ s oldest municipal park.

The borough was named after Epping Forest, the southern part of which extends into the borough.

Legend has it that the borough was named for a member of the Watson family, Cora Watson, who was born on February 2, 1870.

The area was named " Kensington " that year by Robert Brousefield, a surveyor who had lived in the London borough of South Kensington at one time.

The town is named after Greenwich, England, a borough of London in the United Kingdom.

In 1911 a municipalsamhälle ( a kind of borough within a rural municipality, handling matters of urban character ) named Mölndal was instituted in the municipality of Fässberg.

Formerly named Cresson for a borough in Pennsylvania, it was renamed later for two Union Pacific Railroad workers named Palmer and Coe.

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.

The borough of Brooklyn in New York City is named after Breukelen ( see History of Brooklyn ).

Woodhaven was initially incorporated as a village in 1961, and was named after Woodhaven, a village in the borough of Queens, New York City.

The borough is named after the Saddle River, which flows through the borough and is a tributary of the Passaic River.

Knight was a descendant of the Collings family for whom the borough is named.

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.

" 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.

The council or trustees may apply for an Order in Council or Royal Licence to use the former borough coat of arms.

Districts may apply to the British Crown for the grant of borough status upon advice of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.

Districts that do not contain a former borough can apply for a charter in a similar manner to English districts.

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

In some cases, the ' berg ' element in place names has converged towards burg / borough ; for instance Farnborough, from fernaberga ( fern-hill ).

Two minority reports favoured change beyond the amalgamation of smaller urban districts, including both smaller borough councils and a Central Authority for strategic functions.

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.

Following the Reformation, the Abbey was dissolved in 1539 and the Abbey Church sold to the town in 1553 for £ 400: it became a Protestant parish church for the borough and the Lady Chapel was used as a school.

In May 1553, in response to a public petition, the first royal charter for the town was issued by King Edward VI, granting it the status of borough.

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

The separate committees for County Dublin and the former borough of Dún Laoghaire continue to exist.

He first entered parliament in 1819 as Whig member for Peterborough, representing that constituency with a short break ( 1822 – 1823 ) till 1830, when he was elected for the borough of Malton.