It is bordered to
the south by the borough of The Bronx in New York City, to the west by the Hudson River (New Jersey is across the river from Yonkers; most of the rest of the county is across the Hudson from Rockland County), to the east by Connecticut and the Long Island Sound and to the north by Putnam County.
Not exact matches
Driven
by Mayor Bill de Blasio's interest in five -
borough fast ferry service, Oddo wants the city to aggressively study potential ferry dock locations as far west on the North Shore as Port Richmond, and on the
South Shore, possibly in Prince's Bay.
A new flashpoint is the refusal
by Oddo and Councilman Vincent Ignizio (R -
South Shore) to submit for Council approval the name of Deborah Alvarez as the
borough's GOP Board of Elections commissioner.
«I was referring to GPs in my own
borough of Bexley,
south London, and qualified this
by saying GPs in the
borough had a head start, building on their experience of commissioning over the last four years.
A new report backed
by South Bronx community groups urges NYCHA to open up a green jobs institute in the Bronx to get residents to get back into the workforce while, at the same time, greening the
borough.
Overwhelmingly Democratic but also moderate in its political temperament, the area is home to a booming
South Asian population and is,
by some measurements, the most diverse in the five
boroughs.
On Tuesday night,
South Bronx native Elvin Garcia, the Bronx
borough director for Mayor Bill de Blasio, and thirty - nine other young New Yorkers in government, politics, media, nonprofit work, and business were recognized as «Rising Stars»
by City and State NY.
The
borough president stressed that the funding resulted from persistence
by Council Minority Leader Vincent Ignizio (R -
South Shore) and teamwork among elected officials.
So it was almost inevitable that when a baby in Bromley in the suburbs of
south - east London was bitten
by a fox last week, Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, demanded that the city's many
borough councils tackle the «growing problem» of urban foxes, which he called a «pest and a menace».
A
south London council has warned it can not guarantee a primary school place for every child in the
borough by 2015.