Huh, I just looked it up, I guess the Mayor represents the five burroughs but you'd think Kings, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island would have representatives that represent them alone if Nassau, Rockland, Putnam, and Orange counties do.
New York City, which is implementing this, is a bit of a weird case in that it actually sits above the counties, not below them. New York's five boroughs are technically five counties.
New York City is dividied into five boroughs, each of which is coterminous with is own county.
Boroughs are subdivivions of New York City City, counties are subdivisions of New York State.
Manhattan is the borough, New York County is the county.
However, I don't think any of the 5 counties that correspond to boroughs have their own governments. So there is no government at all for County of New York, but the Borough of Manhattan does have its own government, which is fine because the County and Borough are coterminous with each other (and both contained entirely within the City of New York).
New York City is composed of five boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Each borough is coextensive with a respective county of New York State.
Unusually, the county of New York (coextensive with Manhattan) is only 1 of 5 counties inside the city of New York (which of course inside the state of New York).
Thank you, I was really confused by this because the NYC borough of Brooklyn is actually synonymous with Kings County, and I assumed that OP had merely forgotten the s.
Bizarre.
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