borough
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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
"For a council that describes itself as a smarter, greener, fairer borough, it's just absurd that we've got something that generates so much CO2," he said.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
The four men and a woman, aged between 23 and 47, were held at addresses in the borough earlier on Thursday, police said.
From BBC • May 21, 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
Because what was so inspiring about the leap was not how the jumper got from one borough to the other, but how he stayed between them for so long.”
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
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