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Old 04-10-2014, 02:35 PM
 
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Why only 5 and why is their powers so limited when compared to other cities in the world with boroughs like London, Montreal, Oslo?
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Old 04-10-2014, 02:47 PM
 
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Generally do not like assisting with homework assignments, but: List of former municipalities in New York City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 04-10-2014, 08:27 PM
 
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It's not subdivided into boroughs, it's comprised of them.
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Old 04-10-2014, 09:52 PM
 
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I like helping with homework. The boroughs did have a lot more power once New York City Board of Estimate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 04-11-2014, 06:45 AM
 
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It is just a name son--- in a place like New Orleans they are called parishes--- in most cities they are neighborhoods but in this dam city there are just too many people who don't like each other so they had to come up with a novel way to keep them apart. Hence the divisions are made.
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Old 04-11-2014, 09:44 AM
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It is just a name son--- in a place like New Orleans they are called parishes--- in most cities they are neighborhoods but in this dam city there are just too many people who don't like each other so they had to come up with a novel way to keep them apart. Hence the divisions are made.
Well the NYC boroughs are made up of individual neighborhoods. But one also has to remember that NYC is one of largest cities in the USA.
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Old 04-11-2014, 09:54 AM
 
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Why only 5 and why is their powers so limited when compared to other cities in the world with boroughs like London, Montreal, Oslo?
I would like to know why Brooklyn is considered it's own city nowadays.

Seems like whenever something sticks out in Brooklyn (rent), the media gives the borough it's own city category.
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Old 04-11-2014, 10:28 AM
 
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I would like to know why Brooklyn is considered it's own city nowadays.

Seems like whenever something sticks out in Brooklyn (rent), the media gives the borough it's own city category.
Historically Brooklyn was a city in its own right.
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Old 04-11-2014, 12:17 PM
 
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I would like to know why Brooklyn is considered it's own city nowadays.

Seems like whenever something sticks out in Brooklyn (rent), the media gives the borough it's own city category.
Brooklyn was a city before it became incorporated into NYC, and that event didn't go down very well with some at that time. IIRC then Brooklyn would have been one of the top five US cities in terms of population/size.

Until white flight, economic downturns, riots, etc... Brooklyn was an economic powerhouse. Between manufacturing, shipping, finance, farming and so forth the place was really able stand on it's own.

Brooklyn's water front IIRC was larger than Manhattan's and it houses all sorts of industries reaching from the Navy Yard to the border with Queen's.
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Old 04-11-2014, 01:24 PM
 
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The boroughs did have a lot more power once New York City Board of Estimate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The BOE could have been maintained, simply by weighing the votes of the 5 borough presidents, to reflect their population at the time: BK 2.2, BX 1.2, ,MN 1.4, QN 1.9, SI .4.
"Brooklyn ... 2,230,936, ... Staten Island ... 352,151, ... Queens ...1,891,325; Manhattan, 1,427,533; and the Bronx, 1,169,115. ... total population is 7,071,030."
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