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May 4, 2020 · Prior to the creation of the City of Greater New York, which consolidated the City of New York with Brooklyn, Staten Island, and western Queens, the City and County of New York annexed the Bronx...
4 days ago · The English turned Bronck into Bronx. Another Dutch name attached to the Bronx is Van Cortlandt. The park takes its name from a wealthy Dutch family who owned the land since the early 1600s.
5 days ago · While the Bronx and Manhattan only have a couple of vestiges of their Dutch past remaining, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island still possess numerous remnants from that era. Below, we explore...
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4 days ago · Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs of New York City, southwestern Long Island, southeastern New York state, coextensive with Kings county. It is separated from Manhattan by the East River and bordered by the Upper and Lower New York bays (west), Atlantic Ocean (south), and borough of Queens (north and east).
5 days ago · The five boroughs—The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a population of approx 8,336,697 distributed over a land area of just 302.64 square miles, New York is the most densely populated major city in the US.
4 days ago · Harlem, New York, New York. The term Harlem was often used inaccurately as a synonym for New York’s Black community. In fact, by the 1970s the Black population had expanded beyond this area to other parts of Manhattan and to large parts of the Bronx and Brooklyn.
4 days ago · 2h ago. A fire inside a Van Nest home Wednesday morning left a number of Bronx residents without a place to call home, fire officials say. The FDNY says the flames broke out inside the multifamily ...
