Tony Blair said there had been progress in the five boroughs, but it was time for a radical approach.
That means Dunkin' Donuts, which has about 480 store locations throughout the five boroughs, would be in a bind.
Last summer, he took them to explore and play in 20 parks across the five boroughs of New York.
Today, the chain encompasses 11 hospitals in the five boroughs, along with 18 other hospitals in the tri-state area.
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In addition, passengers can only pick up these cabs in Manhattan, but the taxis will travel anywhere in the five boroughs.
In 1958, the phone book listing for pizzerias showed 117 in the five boroughs and just 10 in Manhattan, Mr. Berman found.
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Bloomberg and the City of New York to provide free Wi-Fi at 26 locations in 20 New York City parks across the five boroughs.
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Literally, behind us in Central Park fireworks set the sky ablaze to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the five boroughs constituting New York City.
Unsheltered homelessness has decreased 28% across the five boroughs since 2005.
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The problem now, of course, is that Wal-Mart has so far been unsuccessful in its efforts to secure permission to open stores in the five boroughs.
Today, more than 500 active permits have been authorized to vendors across the five boroughs, concentrated in communities where fresh produce is hard to come by.
Bronx Science is one of the city's eight elite public high schools that use a single test to determine admissions, drawing 3, 000 students from the five boroughs.
In New York, there will be 450 designated cooling centers open across the five boroughs for residents looking to cool off, said Office of Emergency Management spokeswoman Judith Kane.
We took in 360 degrees of unobstructed views - the five boroughs, the bridges and rivers, the ocean, even downtown (a sight denied at the top of Rockefeller Center, blocked by Empire).
Apart from the five boroughs which are set to raise council tax, 23 boroughs say they are planning to freeze it and two - Bexley and Wandsworth - have not yet decided.
While some elected officials in New York called on the U.S. Department of Justice to send federal monitors to New York City on Election Day, the five boroughs did not make the cut.
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To all the runners competing across the five boroughs this Sunday, I say good luck to all of you, be patient when trying to claim your bib numbers, and enjoy being part of a proud tradition.
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And he helped implement PlaNYC, a long-term scheme to build houses for up to 1m New Yorkers, link them to transport, clean up brownfields, plant 1m trees and improve air and water across the five boroughs.
Indeed, it's astonishing given the many clear improvements in New York that more residents left the five boroughs for other locales in 2006, the peak of the last boom, than in 1993, when the city was in demonstrably worse shape.
Under the plans, there will be at least 10 brand new schools across the five boroughs, seven of which will be academies - independent schools funded by the state that use new ways of teaching and the latest equipment to try to raise standards.
And if like me, you grew up spoiled on real New York style cheesecake, well the mail order variety is better than any you will find pretty much anywhere on earth outside the five boroughs, much to the chagrin of many respected pastry chefs who try and fail to outperform it.
By 1940 Jewish parents and their children at the southwestern corner of New Jersey's largest city talked to one another in an American English that sounded more like the language spoken in Altoona or Binghamton than like the dialects famously spoken across the Hudson by our Jewish counterparts in the five boroughs.
Acquiring U of M allows greater market penetration into the Washington DC and Baltimore areas, whereas the Rutgers merger captures a good chunk of New Jersey and portions of the five NYC boroughs (how thoroughly Rutgers penetrates the NYC market is keenly addressed by Darren Rovell of ESPN).
The Olympic Delivery Authority said of the 44, 000 people that worked on the Olympic Park, a fifth came from the five host boroughs and as well as 450 apprentices.
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But opening a series of glossy gastropubs and flower markets doesn't change the fact that three of the five official Olympic boroughs (Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets) are among Britain's poorest districts -- a fact which became painfully clear during last summer's riots.
CESI, which said young people in the UK were facing a similar situation to the 1980s recession, found that five of the six Olympic boroughs had the highest proportion of 16 to 24-year-olds in London claiming the allowance.
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Officials are confident the marathon course, a route that covers multiple bridges and passes through each of the city's five boroughs, will be clear for Sunday morning's start.
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The GOP operations in two of the city's five boroughs are in upheaval, since Bronx Republican Party Chairman Joseph Savino and Queens Republican Party Vice Chairman Vincent Tabone both were arrested.
The city's religious and community organizations reflect the richness and diversity of all five boroughs.
Mr. Watkins said he would like to expand the program into more neighborhoods across all five boroughs.
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