The borough, named for the River Wyre, which crosses and drains it, is generally a low coastal plain.
The statue of Queen Catherine of Braganza, once slated for a prime waterfront throne in the borough named for her (Queens, not Braganza), has had a horrible couple of years.
A quixotic 20-year effort to return trolleys to the streets of Brooklyn -- where they were once so plentiful that the borough named its baseball team the Trolley Dodgers -- may be coming to an end.
Rochdale council made Smith a freeman of the borough, named a room in the town hall after him and, in a ceremony attended by the current MP Simon Danczuk, put up a blue plaque in his honour – now taken down, apparently to prevent vandalism.
Inside this city and state named for a man, you can board the No. 6 train at the northern end of the line in Pelham Bay, named after a Mr. Pell, in a borough named for a Swedish man, Jonas Bronck, and ride the train down into Manhattan, which is unusual in the city for retaining an indigenous name (the Bronx was said to be named Rananchqua by the local Lenape, Keskeskeck by other native groups).
They gave these boroughs names based on the major historical neighborhoods roughly within their boundaries.
As there was already a team named Fulham in the borough, the name of the adjacent borough of Chelsea was chosen for the new club; names like Kensington FC, Stamford Bridge FC and London FC were also considered.
Residents of West Paterson rejected a proposal to change the borough's name, 2,317 to 1,707.
Currently, the mayor appoints two board members and the borough presidents name the other five.
And it does, with stretched-out evocations of the borough's name serving as the concluding rallying cry for the hip-hop verses.
