The Five Boroughs
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- 'The Five Boroughs' may also mean The Five Burghs of the Danelaw.
The Five Boroughs is a phrase used to denote the five boroughs that make up New York City. It is used to unambiguously refer to the municipality as a whole, no less and no more, to avoid confusion with any particular borough or to the greater metropolitan area. It is also used, often by politicians representing the residents of New York City, to counter a natural focus on Manhattan and refer to each of the boroughs equally. The map demonstrates this agenda.
The five boroughs, alphabetically, are:
- The Bronx (Bronx County)
- Brooklyn (Kings County)
- Manhattan (New York County)
- Queens (Queens County)
- Staten Island (Richmond County)
By contrast, the phrase "the City", when used within the region, is often taken to imply only the island of Manhattan, or even Manhattan below about 110th Street, i. e. Downtown, Midtown and the Upper West and Upper East Sides. The term "New York" itself can refer to the State of New York, including the Five Boroughs and "The Island" (Long Island) as well as the regions extending north all the way to Lake Ontario, often called Upstate New York. "Upstate" never includes New York City or Long Island, and usually does not include the areas just north of The Bronx such as Westchester County. The New York metropolitan area, including the suburbs in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey, is sometimes called "the Tri-State Area," "the Tri-State Region," or simply "the Tri-State."