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Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, and was the first public coeducational liberal arts college in New York City. The college ranked in the top 10 nationally for the second consecutive year in Princeton Review 's 2006 guidebook, America's Best Value Colleges .
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 ...
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 ...
This is a list of colleges and universities entirely in, or with a campus in, Nassau or Suffolk County. For institutions in the Long Island sections of Brooklyn and Queens, two of New York City's five boroughs, see the separate List of colleges and universities in New York City.
CUNY Senior Colleges and Graduate Schools. Baruch College, Gramercy Park; Brooklyn College; City College, Harlem; College of Staten Island; CUNY Graduate Center, Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
New York City is sometimes referred to collectively as the Five Boroughs. [170] Each borough is coextensive with a respective county of New York State, making New York City one of the U.S. municipalities in multiple counties. Manhattan (New York County) is the geographically smallest and most densely populated borough.
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.
The New York State portion of the metropolitan area, which includes the five boroughs of New York City, the lower Hudson Valley, and Long Island, accounts for over 65 percent of the state's population. New York–Newark–Jersey City, NY–NJ–PA Metropolitan Statistical Area (19,043,386)