Each of New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

's boroughs

Borough (New York City)

New York City, one of the largest cities in the world, is composed of five boroughs. Each borough now has the same boundaries as the county it is in. County governments were dissolved when the city consolidated in 1898, along with all city, town, and village governments within each county...

 has its own flag. These flags are rarely seen, but fairly well known.

Manhattan

Manhattan

Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

The Borough of Manhattan does not have an official Borough flag. By order of the Borough President, a variant of the City flag, with the seal of the Borough President in place of the City Seal is used to represent Manhattan.

Bronx

The flag of the Bronx is a horizontal tricolor of orange(top), white and blue with the Bronck family arms in the center encircled by a laurel wreath denoting honor and fame. The shield shows the face of the sun with rays displayed rising from the sea, signifying peace, liberty, and commerce. The crest is an eagle with its wings expanded on a hemisphere facing eastward, representing "the hope of the New World while not forgetting the Old." The motto is "Ne cede malis," meaning "Yield not to evil."

Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

The flag of Brooklyn is a white field with a seal at the center. Within the seal appears a figure of the goddess of justice in gold holding Roman fasces in her left hand set on a background of light blue. Encircling her figure on a background of dark blue appear the words "Eendraght Mackt Maght" the old Dutch motto for "In unity there is strength" and below the words "borough of Brooklyn." The outside and inside trim of the seal is gold.

Queens

Queens

Queens is the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The largest borough in area and the second-largest in population, it is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States....

The flag has three horizontal bands of blue(top), white and blue which represents the arms of the first Dutch governor William Kielt, a tulip crossed with a rose within a red and white circle and queen's crown at the left side of the top band. The circle denotes the Native American name for Long Island Seawanhaka which meant wampum. The tulip represents the Dutch settlers. The red and white rose is symbolic of the English houses of York and Lancaster. The Queens's crown signifies the name of the county and borough in honor of Queen Catherine of Braganza. The date indicates the year when Queens became a part of the city of New York.

Staten Island

Staten Island

Staten Island is a borough of New York City, New York, United States, located in the southwest part of the city. Staten Island is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay...

The flag is on a white background with the design of a seal in the shape of an oval in the center. Within the seal appears the color blue to symbolize the skyline of the borough in which two seagulls appear colored in white. The green outline represents the countryside with a white outline denoting the residential areas of Staten Island. Below is inscribed the words Staten Island in gold. Under the name are five wavy lines of blue to symbolize the water.