Indeed, it is the only borough in the county without one.

Staten Island is the only borough in the city without a formal witness protection program.

It is the only borough without a city-financed shelter for single adults.

Brooklyn is the only borough in which all 2,000 carriers deliver mail on foot, he said.

East York remained as the only borough after 1983.

But Queens is the only borough that does no screening of judicial candidates for their qualifications.

Manhattan is the only borough that has abolished the 30-day limit, officials said.

The only new municipal boroughs were created by amalgamation of existing corporations in this period.

The Bronx was the only borough in which new-housing production declined from the year before.

And Brooklyn is the only borough to have a poet laureate.