Nearly 18 per cent of West Berlin's 2,200,000 residents are sixty-five or older, only 12.8 per cent are under fifteen.

Berlin's resilience is amazing, but if it has to hire its labor in the West the struggle will be hard indeed ''.

West Berlin officially remained an occupied city, but as a corpus separatum it politically was very closely aligned with Federal Republic of Germany despite Berlin's geographic location within East Germany.

* 1989 – Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.

With the division of Berlin's city government and administration in September 1948 the Neues Stadthaus was in the Communist Ostsektor ( eastern sector ) and became off limits to West Berlin.

Before the reunification, squats in Berlin were mostly located in former West Berlin's borough of Kreuzberg.

In the late 60s and early 70s, several short-lived incarnations of Tangerine Dream were formed by Froese teaming up with various musicians from West Berlin's underground scene.

From 1885 to 1890 Berlin's population grew by 20 %, Brandenburg and the Rhineland gained 8. 5 %, Westphalia 10 %, while East Prussia lost 0. 07 % and West Prussia 0. 86 %.

From London's West End, Keel ended up at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, making his film musical debut as Frank Butler in the movie version of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun ( 1950 ).

On 14 August West Berliners gathered on the western side of the gate to demonstrate against the Berlin Wall, among them West Berlin's governing Mayor Willy Brandt, who had spontaneously returned from a federal election campaigning tour in West Germany earlier on the same day.

Due to Berlin's history of division during the Cold War, the city contains central business districts both in West Kurfürstendamm and East Berlin ( Alexanderplatz ), as well as a newly built business centre near Potsdamer Platz.

During the years of West Berlin's isolation — 176 kilometres ( 110 mi.

West Berlin's morale was sustained, and its industrial production considerably surpassed the pre-war level.

In the late 1950s, the runways at West Berlin's city centre Tempelhof Airport had become too short to accommodate the new-generation jet aircraft such as the Aérospatiale Caravelle, Boeing 707, de Havilland Comet and Douglas DC-8, without imposing payload or range restrictions.

West Berlin's special legal status during the Cold War era ( 1945 – 1990 ) meant that all air traffic through the Allied air corridors linking the exclave with West Germany was restricted to airlines headquartered in the United States, the United Kingdom or France – three of the four victorious powers of World War II.

Following the mid-to late 1960s ' introduction by Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am ) and British European Airways ( BEA ) of jet aircraft with short-field capabilities that were not payload-restricted on Tempelhof's short runways, Air France experienced a traffic decline on those routes where it competed with Pan Am and BEA, mainly as a result of Tegel's greater distance and poorer accessibility from West Berlin's city centre.

British Airways was the last of West Berlin's three main scheduled carriers to commence regular operations from Tegel following the move from Tempelhof on 1 September 1975.

From April 1968, all non-scheduled services, i. e. primarily the rapidly growing number of IT holiday flights that several UK independent airlines as well as a number of US supplemental carriers had mainly operated from Tempelhof since the early 1960s under contract to West Berlin's leading package tour operators, were concentrated at Tegel.

This traffic redistribution between West Berlin's two commercial airports was intended to alleviate Tempelhof's increasing congestion and to make better use of Tegel, which was underutilised at the time.

This was the reason charter carriers favoured Tegel despite being less popular than Tempelhof because of its greater distance from West Berlin's city centre and poor public transport links.

In addition to firmly establishing itself as the airport's and West Berlin's leading charter airline, it also operated scheduled services linking Tegel with Amsterdam Schiphol, Saarbrücken and London Gatwick, its main operating base.

The candidacy of Mayor James J. Sheeran of West Orange, for the Republican nomination for sheriff of Essex County, was supported today by Edward W. Roos, West Orange public safety commissioner.

The choice of Bonn was made mainly due to the advocacy of West Germany's first chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, a former Cologne Mayor and a native of that area.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in 1997 signed legislation designating the southwest corner of West 54th Street and Broadway, the corner on which John J. Fitz Gerald lived from 1934 to 1963, as " Big Apple Corner.

** from 1 October 1922 Walvisbaai's administration ( still merely having a Magistrate until its 16 March 1931 Municipal status, thence a Mayor ) was also assigned to South West Africa Mandate

It was also the permanent home to an exhibition of the life of Willy Brandt ( 1913 – 1992 ), Mayor of West Berlin from 1957 to 1966, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany 1969 – 1974.

The day after the truce agreement Shaykh Muhamad ' Ali al-Ja ' bari, Mayor of Hebron and supporter of King Abdullah I of Jordan attended the Jericho Conference presided over a meeting hoping to pass a resolution calling for the unification of the Palestinian West Bank and Jordan, only to find many other notables reluctant to cede their claim to Palestine.

Mayor Daley took over the Chicago Public Schools, developed tourism, the construction of Millennium Park, increased environmental efforts and the rapid development of the city's North Side, as well as the near South and West sides.

From 3 October 1957, to 1966, Willy Brandt was Mayor of West Berlin, during a period of increasing tension in East-West relations that led to the construction of the Berlin Wall.

As Mayor of West Berlin, Brandt accomplished much in the way of urban development.

The Tribune absorbed three other Chicago publications under the new editors: the Free West in 1855, the Democratic Press in 1858, and the Chicago Democrat in 1861, whose editor, John Wentworth, left his position to become Chicago Mayor.

Crossrail 3, backed by former London Mayor Ken Livingstone and incumbent Boris Johnson would include a 4-kilometre underground section in new tunnels connecting London Euston station and Waterloo, connecting the West Coast Main Line corridor with services to the south.

Transport for London, led by then Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, proposed to build a West London Tram between Shepherd's Bush and Uxbridge town centre.

As of 2010, the office of Mayor is held by Mike Schmitz, while the City Manager is Mike West.

He was Mayor of the city of Essen from 1946 to 1949, West German Minister of the Interior from 1949 to 1950, Minister of Justice from 1966 to 1969 and President of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1969 to 1974.

The Mayor ( President of the board ) of West City is Charles Cockrum, who was elected to a full term in April 2009 after serving a brief term as the acting mayor.

for the murder of West City Mayor Joe Adams in 1928.

The West Baton Rouge Museum complex includes the museum, the circa 1830 Aillet House, a 1850s slave cabin, and three antebellum worker's cabins from the plantation of Henry Watkins Allen, the last Confederate Governor of Louisiana and the Mayor whom Port Allen was named.

, members of the West Wildwood Borough Commission are Mayor Dr. Herbert C. " Chuck " Frederick ( Commissioner of Public Affairs and Public Safety ), Scott W. Golden ( Commissioner of Revenue and Finance ) and Gerard P. " Gerry " McNamara ( Commissioner of Public Works, Parks and Public Property ).

, the Mayor of Orange is Dwayne D. Warren Members of the City Council are Council President Tency A. Eason ( North Ward, 2014 ), Council Vice President Donna K. Williams ( At-Large, 2016 ), Elroy A. Corbitt ( At-Large, 2016 ), Hassan Abdul Rasheed ( West Ward, 2014 ), Linda Jones-Bell ( East Ward, 2014 ), April Gaunt-Butler ( At-Large, 2016 ) and Edward B. Marable, Jr. ( South Ward, 2014 ).

, the Mayor of West Caldwell is Joseph Tempesta, Jr., whose term of office ends December 31, 2014.

The other members of the West Deptford Township Committee ( with committee chairmanships listed in parentheses ) are, Deputy Mayor Sean Kilpatrick ( R, Buildings & Grounds ) Denice DiCarlo ( D, Public Works ), Sam Cianfarini ( R, Finance & Administration ) and Donna Szymborski ( D, Utilities ).

At the town council's reorganization meeting, the five commissioners unanimously voted to appoint Roque to a four-year term as Mayor of West New York.

* Felix Roque, Mayor of West New York.