WI: Westchester and Queens counties not split?

What if, when the city of New York was consolidated in the 1890s, Westchester County and Queens County were not split? Could we see New York continue to expand outward? Could it have annexed Hempstead at some point, or Yonkers? Could we see a precedent in the Northeast for the kind of urban annexation that we see out west today?
 
I think you mean Nassau & Queens. Westchester is north of the Bronx which was split from NY County (Manhatten) to increase political patronage.
 
I think you mean Nassau & Queens. Westchester is north of the Bronx which was split from NY County (Manhattan) to increase political patronage.
I mentioned Yonkers, so no, when I said Westchester I meant Westchester ;). However, perhaps I should also have added "if the Bronx hadn't been separated from Westchester and plastered onto New York County temporarlily in the 1870s", as well.
 
More (if not the whole thing) of the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway would had been integrated into the New York City Subway. The 5 train would extend all the whole to White Plains on the western branch and Portchester on the eastern branch. One can make a bet that public transportation in the Bronx would slightly better than the deplorable condition it's in at the moment.

Since Westchester County was predominately rural well into the twentieth century when you had lots of suburban development and highways laid down, you can bet on it having a character similar to Staten Island. It would be wealthier, predominately white (depending if white flight doesn't just bring people running into Putnam and Rockland County), and a purplish county (with the OTL Bronx being pro-Democrat and Westchester being pro-Republican) that could swing either way on the election. Very Republican but slowly becomes more Democratic.

An expanded Bronx would include Playland giving Coney Island a run for its money as New York City's main amusement park. I wouldn't expect Freedomland to come about with a popular and close amusement park already in the area.
 
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