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The boroughs of New York City are the five major governmental districts that comprise New York City. They are the Bronx , Brooklyn , Manhattan , Queens , and Staten Island . Each borough is coextensive with a respective county of the State of New York : The Bronx is Bronx County, Brooklyn is Kings County, Manhattan is New York County, Queens is ...
[3] [4] [5] The Fulton Street subway was the city-owned Independent System (IND)'s main line from Downtown Brooklyn to southern Queens. [3] The line was proposed by the New York City Board of Transportation (BOT) to replace the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation's Fulton Street elevated line, which had been in operation since 1888. [6]
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.
Borough, Block, and Lot (also called Borough/Block/Lot or BBL) is the parcel number system used to identify each unit of real estate in New York City for numerous city purposes. It consists of three numbers, separated by slashes: the borough , which is 1 digit; the block number, which is up to 5 digits; and the lot number, which is up to 4 digits.
As of the census [6] of 2010, there were 963 people, 383 households, and 262 families residing in the township. The population density was 39.6 inhabitants per square mile (15.3/km 2).
Brooklyn is an unincorporated community in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States. [1] The community is located along Pennsylvania Route 167 , 3.8 miles (6.1 km) northwest of Hop Bottom . Brooklyn has a post office with ZIP code 18813, which opened on March 20, 1830.
In 2000, construction took place nearby Pennsylvania Avenue, across the Hendrix Creek in East New York to build a $192 million shopping complex, situated on the Belt Parkway. The shopping complex, known as the Gateway Center, was built on the Pennsylvania Avenue and Fountain Avenue Landfills, a 230-acre (0.93 km 2) Brooklyn landfill complex.
Conduit Avenue (Conduit Boulevard in Brooklyn) is an arterial road in New York City, the vast majority of which is in Queens. The divided highway runs from Atlantic Avenue in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn to Hook Creek Boulevard in Rosedale, Queens at the Nassau County border. The thoroughfare is named after an aqueduct in its right-of-way.