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The first borough to be incorporated in Pennsylvania was Germantown in 1690. [10] That borough ceased to exist when all of Philadelphia's municipalities were consolidated in 1854. The borough of Chester Heights has a unique distinction of incorporating into a borough out of Aston Township by a tax revolt. [11]
The borough also has a number of major parks and open spaces, including Hyde Park, and most of Regent's Park. Away from central London the borough also includes various inner suburbs, including St John's Wood, Maida Vale, Bayswater, Belgravia and Pimlico. The borough had a population of 204,300 at the 2021 census.
The term borough was adopted in 1898 to describe a form of governmental administration for each of the five fundamental constituent parts of the newly consolidated city. Under the 1898 City Charter adopted by the New York State Legislature, a borough is a municipal corporation that is created when a county is merged with populated areas within ...
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The vestry hall had become the headquarters of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington in 1900. [3] After the vestry hall had become inadequate for the council's needs, civic leaders decided to procure a new town hall; they purchased a 136,000 square feet (12,600 m 2 ) site with a row of Georgian era terraced houses known as Tyndale Place for ...
Hasbrouck Heights (pronounced HAZ-brook /ˈhæz.bɹʊk/ [20]) is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 12,125, [10] [11] an increase of 283 (+2.4%) from the 2010 census count of 11,842, [21] [22] which in turn reflected an increase of 180 (+1.5%) from the 11,662 counted in the 2000 census. [23]
A 1991 official report recommended that the borough of Dún Laoghaire should be "upgraded to city [i.e. county borough] status" with an extended boundary; [144] instead the Local Government (Dublin) Act 1993 used a similar boundary to delimit a new administrative county, subsuming the old borough, named Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown. [145]