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Advertisement After a productive freshman season for the Minutemen in 2022-2023, Luis leaped at the chance to transfer to St. John’s, located in the New York City borough of Queens, to play for Pitino, the Hall of Famer who had just taken over the program.
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Sean Gregory, Time, 17 June 2025
Joey Chestnut reacts after winning first place, eating 63 hot dogs in 10 minutes, during the 2022 Nathans Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4, 2022 at Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.
—Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025
Despite residents owning their homes, the more than 25,000 New Yorkers living in ground lease co-ops across the state — primarily in the outer boroughs and Westchester — live without any protections or regulations surrounding their ground lease agreements.
—Ron Kim, New York Daily News, 13 June 2025
Population in Carlisle borough has gone up nearly 12% since 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
—Ignacio Calderon, USA Today, 12 June 2025
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Sean Gregory, Time, 17 June 2025
Joey Chestnut reacts after winning first place, eating 63 hot dogs in 10 minutes, during the 2022 Nathans Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4, 2022 at Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.
—Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025
Despite residents owning their homes, the more than 25,000 New Yorkers living in ground lease co-ops across the state — primarily in the outer boroughs and Westchester — live without any protections or regulations surrounding their ground lease agreements.
—Ron Kim, New York Daily News, 13 June 2025
Population in Carlisle borough has gone up nearly 12% since 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
—Ignacio Calderon, USA Today, 12 June 2025
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Goalkeeper Joan Garcia has joined from city rivals Espanyol for his €25million ($28.6m; £21.1m) release clause, while Athletic Club’s Nico Williams has agreed verbal terms with Barca, who do not view his €60m clause as an obstacle.—
Pol Ballús,
New York Times,
27 June 2025
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The Democratic nominee will begin the general election as the favorite in the overwhelmingly Democratic city.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
26 June 2025
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In a world where $25 cocktails are becoming the norm, a $10 Patrón frozen margarita that’s consistent, colorful, and crowd-pleasing might just be the best deal in town.—
Gina Pace,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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The factories promised thousands of new jobs, transforming the manufacturing base in Cartersville, once a cotton mill town before an Anheuser-Busch brewery arrived in the 1990s and a tire plant in 2006.—
Glen Luke Flanagan,
Fortune,
30 June 2025
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Another article from that year documented how Cudahy Park was a popular haunt for 18th Streeters, who poured in from various municipalities to congregate, initiate recruits, and hold meetings.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
27 June 2025
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The Evanston Police Department uses license plate reading technology from Flock Safety, which also manages license plate readers for police departments in Mount Prospect and many other Illinois municipalities.—
Richard Requena,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2025
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Today, Elba is more known for whimsical seaside towns dotted with cafés, shops and visitors from all over Italy and abroad looking for a respite in various scenic harbors before returning to the buzzing metropolis of Florence.—
Alissa Fitzgerald,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Eduard Limonov then—an appropriate nom de plume for a dissident poet arriving in 1974 New York, a metropolis of graffiti and project fires, of blackouts and serial killers.—
Ed Simon
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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However, don’t necessarily count out those living on the West Coast as being necessarily more-mellow in this regard, with California placing no fewer than three major cities among the 10 burgs having the most crash-prone motorists.—
Jim Gorzelany,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Plagued by the tempests of drugs, murder, corruption and other vices of biblical proportion for much of the past five decades, residents in this tiny burg just south of Chicago are seeing a ray of divine hope in their most famous native son, Pope Leo XIV.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
19 May 2025
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“Borough.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borough. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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