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The modern neighborhoods bearing these names are located roughly in the center of each of these original towns. Certain portions of the original six towns were also independent municipalities for a time, before being reabsorbed. Following an 1894 referendum, the entire consolidated City of Brooklyn became a borough of New York City in 1898.
Afton is a town in Chenango County, New York, United States. The population was 2,769 at the 2020 census. [ 2 ] Afton is situated in the southeast corner of the county and lies wholly within the original Township of Clinton.
Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Afton in Chenango County, New York. The district includes 11 contributing buildings. All but one of the buildings are two or three story commercial blocks built between 1868 and 1900. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]
New York City is split up into five boroughs: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Each borough has the same boundaries as a county of the state. The county governments were dissolved when the city consolidated in 1898, along with all city, town, and village governments within each county.
Approximate locations of some past and present Manhattan neighborhoods. This is a list of neighborhoods in the New York City borough of Manhattan arranged geographically from the north of the island to the south. The following approximate definitions are used: Upper Manhattan is the area above 96th Street.
Afton village is located at the geographic center of the town of Afton at (42.22918, -75.524781), [4] in southern Chenango County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.6 square miles (4.1 km 2), of which 1.5 square miles (4.0 km 2) is land and 0.08 square miles (0.2 km 2), or 4.57%, is water. [2]
Although New York City Deputy Municipal Reference Librarian Thelma E. Smith described the Kensington tracts from McDonald Avenue to Coney Island Avenue as a "sub-neighborhood" of Flatbush in a 1966 annotated bibliography of neighborhood histories and reportage for city officials, [26] The New York Times would characterize Ocean Parkway as the ...
The Hole is a small neighborhood in New York City on the border between Brooklyn and Queens. [1] It is a low-lying area, with a ground level that is 30 feet (9.1 m) lower than the surrounding area. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The area is run-down, and suffers from frequent flooding. [ 4 ]