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borough

noun as in incorporated municipality smaller than a city

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Middletown, a quiet borough of about 9,500 people, sits on the Susquehanna River roughly 10 miles southeast of Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania capital.

This year, the project aims to provide new gifts to children living in the boroughs of Hackney and Haringey, which are among the most deprived in England.

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He was the borough commander in Staten Island, commuting from his home in Brooklyn by ferry in the days before the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.

More than 40 percent of people in the poorest of New York's five boroughs, the Bronx, eat neither fruits nor vegetables in an average week.

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Taking place over the last couple of months, the team has been searching and identifying species at both known and potential river sites in boroughs such as Newham, Richmond upon Thames and Barnet.

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