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2. Boroughs of New York City - Wikipedia

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   All five boroughs of New York came into existence with the creation of modern New York City in 1898, when New York County (then including the Bronx), Kings County, Richmond County, and part of Queens County were consolidated within one municipal government under a new city charter. All former municipalities within the newly consolidated city ...

3. List of counties in New York - Wikipedia

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   Counties of New York Location State of New York Number 62 Populations 5,082 (Hamilton) – 2,561,225 (Kings) Areas 33.77 square miles (87.5 km 2) (New York) – 2,821 square miles (7,310 km 2) (St. Lawrence) Government County government Subdivisions Cities, Towns, Indian Reservations Part of a series on Regions of New York Downstate New York New York City Long Island Hudson Valley (Lower ...

4. Brooklyn - Wikipedia

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   Brooklyn is a borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the State of New York.Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelve original counties established under British rule in 1683 in the then Province of New York.

5. List of Brooklyn neighborhoods - Wikipedia

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   These later became English settlements, and were consolidated over time until the entirety of Kings County was the unified City of Brooklyn. The towns were, clockwise from the north: Bushwick, Brooklyn, Flatlands, Gravesend, New Utrecht, with Flatbush in the middle.

6. National Register of Historic Places listings in Brooklyn

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   This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, which coincides with Kings County, New York. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen ...

7. List of former municipalities in New York City - Wikipedia

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   When it was created in 1688 Kings County contained six towns. [5] [6] The City of Brooklyn eventually annexed the other towns and cities in Kings County between 1854 and 1896, before itself becoming part of New York City in 1898.

8. Kings County - Wikipedia

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   Kings County, California; Kings County, New York, coextensive with Brooklyn; Washington County, Rhode Island, called King's County until 1781; Ships

9. Neighborhoods in New York City - Wikipedia

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   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.