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]] 'The Five Boroughs' may also mean The Five Burghs of the Danelaw . The Five Boroughs is a phrase used to denote the five Boroughs that make up New York City . It is used to unambiguously refer to the municipality as a whole, no less and no more, to avoid confusion with any particular Borough or to the Greater Metropolitan Area . It is also used, often by politicians representing the residents of New York City , to counter a natural focus on Manhattan and refer to each of the boroughs equally. The map demonstrates this agenda. The five boroughs, alphabetically, are:
By contrast, the phrase "the City", when used within the region, is often taken to imply only the island of Manhattan , or even Manhattan below about 110th Street , i. e. Downtown , Midtown and the Upper West and Upper East Side s. The term "New York" itself can refer to the State Of New York , including the Five Boroughs and "The Island" ( Long Island ) as well as the regions extending north all the way to Lake Ontario , often called Upstate New York . "Upstate" never includes New York City or Long Island, and usually does not include the areas just north of The Bronx such as Westchester County . The New York Metropolitan Area , including the suburbs in New York , Connecticut , and New Jersey , is sometimes called "the Tri-State Area," "the Tri-State Region ," or simply "the Tri-State." SEE ALSO |