Although Brooklyn is the city's most populous borough, it ranks near the bottom in service by retailers.

So much so that he is known to most residents of the city's least populous borough simply as Guy.

The borough once had the same single vote on the Board of Estimate as the more populous boroughs.

The most populous borough in the county is Morrisville with 10,023 as of the 2000 census.

Staten Island, the city's least populous borough, accounts for three of the eight.

Pluses: A proven vote getter in the city's most populous borough.

Typical questions, according to someone who remembered the test, are: What is the most populous borough?

The board was created in 1898 to protect the interests of the less populous boroughs against those of Manhattan.

The next most populous borough, the Bronx, is home to 1.3 million people.

But he shows surprising new strength in Brooklyn, which is the city's most populous borough and the one with the largest black population.