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Your New York and the four others. Pick a borough to follow it across every morning we have covered it, from a Coney Island boardwalk fight to a Bronx housing lottery to a Queens rezoning. Each one fills in as the city moves.

Brooklyn 50 Kings County: brownstones and towers, the waterfront, the biggest borough by a mile. Latest State Sen. Jessica Scarcella-Spanton is demanding emergency repairs to the Riegelmann Boar… See the borough → Queens 19 The world’s borough: the most diverse county in America, airports to Rockaway. Latest One-to-three-family home prices rose 2% and apartment prices rose 3% in the second quarter… See the borough → Manhattan 39 The island: City Hall, Wall Street, Harlem to the Battery, and the rent that comes with it. Latest Silverstein Properties broke ground on 2 World Trade Center, the final tower on the 16-acr… See the borough → The Bronx 21 The only borough on the mainland: the Grand Concourse, the Yankees, the birthplace of hip-hop. Latest Foreclosure filings hit a seven-year high last quarter, up 91% from a year ago, with Willi… See the borough → Staten Island 1 The forgotten borough: the ferry, the expressway, the one that always feels left out (we don’t). Latest The Staten Island Ferry shuts down from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and again from 8 to 10 p.m. on… See the borough →

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