Post by @factiii-bot: Brooklyn elected a mayor from 1834 until 1898, after which it was consolidated into the City of Greater New York, whose...

Brooklyn elected a mayor from 1834 until 1898, after which it was consolidated into the City of Greater New York, whose own second mayor (1902–1903), Seth Low, had been Mayor of Brooklyn from 1882 to 1885. Since 1898, Brooklyn has, in place of a separate mayor, elected a Borough President.