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New York City borough
Answer for the clue "New York City borough ", 8 letters:
brooklyn
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Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 1176 Housing Units (2000): 534 Land area (2000): 1.004174 sq. miles (2.600799 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.011604 sq. miles (0.030053 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.015778 sq. miles (2.630852 sq. km) FIPS code: 11000 Located within: Michigan ...
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Brooklyn Chewing Gum were an Italian cycling team during the 1970s and early 80s. It was a classics team and featured many of the great classic riders such as Roger de Vlaeminck , who won four Paris–Roubaix . A documentary called A Sunday in Hell features ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
New York City borough, named for village founded there 1646 and named for Dutch township of Breukelen near Utrecht; from Old High German bruoh "moor, marshland;" spelling of U.S. place name influenced by brook (n.), which probably is distantly related.\n
Usage examples of brooklyn.
Southern Baptist Alabamans, branched out to the predominantly black neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
But by the time he got there the bees had been collected by a Brooklyn beekeeper summoned by the police.
I have read about Brooklyn I was lead to believe that Brooklynites had a special pronunciation of English all their own.
David Zielinsky walked out of the Theatrical and onto Short Vincent, left onto East Sixth, right onto Euclid Avenue, heading to Terminal Tower, where he intended to take the streetcar home, heave rubber-banded newspapers onto stoops all over Old Brooklyn, eat the dinner Aunt Betty would serve, and after that meet up with his buddies and see if that redheaded lifeguard was still over at Brookside, if she even existed, and be home by dark.
This Frankie Ferocious comes from over in Brooklyn, where he is considered a rising citizen in many respects, and by no means a guy to give hot foots to, especially as Frankie Ferocious has no sense of humor whatever.
Mouw was just happy that the Title III court applications he had made to bug Ruggiero, Castellano and others were not in Manhattan, but in the Eastern District of New York, which embraced Brooklyn and Queens.
The fare to the Jersey shore is three cents, to Brooklyn two, and to Harlem and Staten Island ten cents.
As he checked out of Sanguis to take the sub-way to Ebbets Field over in Brooklyn, Tommy began to wonder.
One weekend they went to see Sandy Koufax pitch the Brooklyn Dodgers to victory over the Giants at Ebbets Field.
Nearly forty years ago, while teaching the elements of physiology at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, it occurred to me to illustrate the statements of textbooks by a repetition of such simple experiments as had come before my own eyes.
Atlantic Club of Brooklyn, and its success led to the arrangement of a series of games between selected nines of the New York and Brooklyn Clubs in 1858.
In these encounters New York proved victorious, winning the first and third games by the respective scores of 22 to 18, and 29 to 18, while Brooklyn won the second contest by 29 to 8.
Unions of Morrisiana, by defeating the Atlantics in two out of three games in the latter part of the season of 1867, became entitled to the nominal championship, which during the next two seasons was shifted back and forth between the leading clubs of New York and Brooklyn.
The Eckford Club of Brooklyn entered the Association about the middle of the season, but its games were not counted.
Perhaps George the Fourth would have died then and there, perished of cholera infantum at the age of half an hour, never been heard of again except on a tablet in the imaginary cathedral on Brooklyn Bridge .