borough
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The Republican president, who was born in the New York City borough of Queens, has had a difficult relationship with his heavily Democratic hometown.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
Ruth Messinger, the former Manhattan borough president and a Jewish progressive icon, called Lander a man of integrity and is backing him.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
"It started in this borough with de-industrialisation, de-regulation of the buses, privatisation of life's essentials," he said.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
Her food-distribution company buys fresh stalks from farmers in California and trucks them nearly 3,000 miles to a maze of chilled warehouses in New York City’s Bronx borough.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank down himself into eternal blindness or forgot them and moved away.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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