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borough

noun as in incorporated municipality smaller than a city

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They also won three borough and district council ward by-elections.

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Both women added that MMS was not one of the 51 maintained schools in the borough which the council said were running in deficit.

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Although Barstool Sports was founded in Massachusetts, it’s now a media behemoth in New York City, where it has offices in the trendy borough of Brooklyn.

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But with the median Manhattan apartment rental costing more than $4,600 a month, and Mamdani finding his strongest supporters in the outer boroughs, the haves and have-nots are, quite literally, further apart than ever.

Mamdani, 33, is a state lawmaker for the Queens borough of New York and has faced criticism for his relative youth in the face of a typically older political establishment.

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