Sixth borough

[1][2][3] The Westchester County cities of Yonkers and Mount Vernon directly border the northern part of the Bronx and share much of that borough's heavily urbanized character.

Joseph F. Loehr, then Mayor of Yonkers, was opposed to the merger, despite Jacobs's argument that such a maneuver would cause a rise in real estate prices and increase quality of transit.

[5] New Jersey's Hudson Waterfront lies opposite Manhattan on the North River, and during the Dutch colonial era, it was under the jurisdiction of New Amsterdam and known as Bergen.

[7][1][8][9] Fort Lee, in Bergen County, opposite Upper Manhattan and connected by the George Washington Bridge, has also been called the sixth borough.

[17] Other communities within the New York City Consolidated Statistical Area have often been referred to as sixth boroughs, especially diverse urban centers such as Stamford[18] and New Haven.

Places outside the New York metropolitan area that are home to large populations of former New Yorkers have also been referred to as the "sixth borough", including Philadelphia;[20][21] Miami, and South Florida in general;[22] Los Angeles;[23] and, outside the continental U.S., Puerto Rico.

[28] Manhattan College, located in Riverdale, Bronx, refers to its Jaspers student cheering section as "The 6th Borough" at home basketball games played in Draddy Gymnasium.

A handful of locations along the Hudson Waterfront have been referred to as the sixth borough of New York City. [ 1 ]
Aerial view of Governors Island in New York City on a sunny day. There is a lawn and some houses in the foreground, and skyscrapers in the background.
Governors Island is a place that has been referred to as a sixth borough of New York City. [ 13 ]