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South Miami, FL. Take a look on Google maps. It has lots of little "islands" of incorporation scattered in an area of Miami Dade County north of the bulk of the town. I believe this happened many decades ago after its initial incorporation of a much lager area when some citizens successfully got large swaths of the city unincorporated, reverting back to the previously unincorporated Dade County, leaving scattered little areas remaining in the city.
If you count separation by water, NYC is an obvious example. Only Brooklyn and Queens are contiguous. (There is a tiny sliver of the Bronx that is under the jurisdiction of Manhattan, but it's so small most people don't even realize it.) Off the top of my head I can't think of another city with major areas so separated by so many different waterways.
I took a quick look on Google Maps and it looks like the neighborhood you are referring to is "Marble Hill"-- the only Manhattan neighborhood to be on the US mainland. I wonder how that came about?
I took a quick look on Google Maps and it looks like the neighborhood you are referring to is "Marble Hill"-- the only Manhattan neighborhood to be on the US mainland. I wonder how that came about?
It happened because the course of the Harlem River was artificially changed to straighten it out and allow faster transit by ship traffic. The Marble Hill neighborhood was originally located on Manhattan; the rerouting of the river left it on the mainland instead.
The municipalities around Raleigh have some really funky, messed up boundaries. You can thank the crazy annexation laws that existed until a few years ago for that.
Columbia has a massive part of their city (at least 50%) to the east of DT that is totally NOTHING. It looks strictly rural. That is really odd.
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