Personal blog about states
The City of New York is made up of five boroughs. Each borough is a county of New York State. New York City Counties .
Borough | County |
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Manhattan | New York County |
Queens | Queens County |
Staten Island | Richmond County |
There are 62 counties in New York . Five of those counties are coterminous with the five boroughs of New York City and do not have functioning county governments. These counties are instead subject to the jurisdiction of the city. New York City is considered the county seat for each of these counties .
The Bronx (/brɒŋks/) is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County , in the U.S. state of New York , the third-most-densely populated county in the United States. It is south of Westchester County ; northeast and east of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of Queens, across the East River.
Two different worlds entirely. NYC is made up of 5 boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx). New York State is the 27th largest state but the 4th in population (mostly in NYC ). Most of the state is referred to as ‘upstate’ to distinguish from the city .
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Statue of Liberty. Statue of Liberty. Central Park. Central Park. Rockefeller Center & Top of the Rock Observation Deck. Rockefeller Center | Photo Copyright: Lana Law. Metropolitan Museum of Art . Metropolitan Museum of Art . Broadway and the Theater District. Empire State Building. 9/11 Memorial and Museum. High Line.
They are New York County (Manhattan), Kings County ( Brooklyn ), Bronx County (The Bronx ), Richmond County (Staten Island), and Queens County (Queens).
Manhattan , Brooklyn , Queens , Staten Island , and The Bronx .
Upstate New York does however have several Democratic-dominated counties, including Erie County ( Buffalo ), Monroe County (Rochester), Onondaga County (Syracuse), Tompkins County (Ithaca), and Albany County ( Albany ).
Bronx crime is unfortunately high at the moment (although its City Island is a pretty safe outlier), and the borough is even facing a minor epidemic of hypodermic needles scattered on the grounds of its parks.
An important fact on how the Bronx ghetto came about is during the 1940s the city’s rent control policy was introduced to keep rent from rising during World War II as many apartments were vacant due to the tenants fighting in the war.
The Bronx has a strong character all its own. It is the birthplace of rap/hip hop music and home to one of the country’s most storied professional baseball teams, the New York Yankees, also known as the ” Bronx Bombers.” Many ethnic groups have called the Bronx home over the years.
The worst neighborhoods and districts in Unsafe Areas in New York are: Long wood. A neighborhood in the Bronx , with population of 33,198 people. Fort Greene. A Brooklyn neighborhood of 23,886 people. Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill & Dumbo.
What does ” New York ” mean ? New York was named after the English Duke of York and Albany (and the brother of England’s King Charles II) in 1664 when the region called New Amsterdam was taken from the Dutch. The state was a colony of Great Britain until it became independent on July 4, 1776.
New York is a city. Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York of all the five boroughs. Mainly made up of Manhattan Island and bounded by rivers. New York is a big city also know as “the Big Apple” which is made up of Manhattan , Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens & the Bronx.