Dukes

"If you are arriving by plane, your first steps on Liberty City turf will probably be in Dukes. Francis International Airport sprawls across the eastern tip of the borough and serves as an international hub for the rest of the country. Dukes should be experienced first-hand rather than from a cab window as you race to catch your flight home. One of the newer attractions is the National Union of Contemporary Arts (NUCA), a museum of modern art crammed full of canvases with ... To the east of NUCA lies Meadows Park where you will find relics like the Monoglobe and Liberty State Pavilion Tower leftover from a world fair half a century ago. If you are comfortable with drunken men throwing lethal weapons around a crowded bar, finish your day with a game of darts at the famous Steinway Beer Garden."

- Liberty City area street map description

"Like the suburbs, only worse."

- GTA IV website

Dukes is one of the four boroughs of Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.

Description
While it only contains nine out of the city's sixty five neighborhoods, the Dukes neighborhoods themselves are large, thus the borough is large, being slightly larger than its neighboring borough Broker, thus becoming the second largest after Algonquin. It has an estimated population of about 1.75 million. Its archetype is (both words are positions in a monarchy), and although it shares its name with the muscle car also found in-game, there does not seem to be a relation between the two. The borough is spread across two islands. Seven of its eight districts are located on the Broker/Dukes mainland island, with the eighth being Charge Island in the Humboldt River. Dukes and Broker are the only boroughs in the metropolitan area to share an island. All other boroughs are separated by water.

Character
Dukes consists of nine, large, heavily-populated neighborhoods and has the second-highest population behind Algonquin.

The character of Dukes varies considerably across its neighborhoods. It has the most green space out of all the boroughs in Liberty City which is particularly concentrated around the districts in the north of the borough such as Meadows Park, and western parts of Francis International Airport.

The income of Dukes itself overall could be described as middle class, as it also could be considered the most suburban out of all four boroughs. The main urbanized district of the borough is East Island City which is centered around the Dukes Boulevard thoroughfare. It contains both modern business land use. It consists of a Bank of Liberty chain, the National Union of Contemporary Arts and the LC24 Tower in addition to declining industrial areas in the neighborhood's southern reaches and Beechwood City, which also merges with Broker. Charge Island is Dukes' other industrial centered local. Commercial shopping areas are centred around Camden Avenue in Cerveza Heights, where the majority of shopping outlets are independent ethnic businesses, as well as Saratoga Avenue in Willis where there is a Shopping Mall as well as the presence of chain business outlets. Cerveza Heights can be considered the neighborhood of central importance in Dukes, with the presence of the borough's medical and policing services on Livingston Avenue as well as the housing of Huntington Street LTA, an important Subway station providing a crossover interchange between the two loops of the 3/8 Broker Line.

Some parts of Dukes could be considered leafy, quaint and expensive suburban locales. These are mainly focused around Willis, Meadow Hills, Meadows Park. Dukes' only housing projects are the Steinway Projects which are located along Yorktown Avenue in Steinway, a working-class neighborhood.

Francis International Airport is Dukes' and Liberty City's largest district, and obviously serves as the center for aviation in Liberty City.

Like the real-life archetype of Dukes, the borough shows evidence of much multiculturalism. The communities often noted for a strong ethnic identity in Dukes include: Irish/German Steinway, Italian/Hispanic/Chinese Cerveza Heights and Jamaican/Caribbean Willis.

According to the documentary A History of Liberty City on CNT, Dukes name was derived from the word dookie because the people smelled like shit.

Subway Stations

 * Broker/Dukes Line:
 * Dukes Boulevard LTA
 * Francis International Airport LTA
 * Huntington Street LTA
 * Lynch Street LTA

Bridges

 * Algonquin Bridge: connects to Algonquin to the west of Dukes
 * Dukes Bay Bridge: connects to Industrial, Bohan to the north of Dukes
 * East Borough Bridge: connects to Charge Island to the west of Dukes

Highways

 * Algonquin-Dukes Expressway: the main expressway that connects the Francis International Airport and the Algonquin Bridge
 * Broker-Dukes Expressway: the main expressway that connects Broker and Dukes

Police Departments

 * East Island City Police Station on Livingston St.
 * Francis International Airport Police Station at the Francis International Airport

Hospitals

 * Cerveza Heights Medical Center at Inchon Avenue and Livingston Street

Fire Departments

 * Francis International Airport Fire Station at Francis International Airport.

High Schools
One high school from Dukes appears on Hornyhighschoolreunions.com
 * Meadows Park International

Places of Interest in Dukes

 * Francis International Airport
 * National Union of Contemporary Arts
 * LC24 Tower
 * Liberty State Pavilion Towers
 * The Monoglobe
 * Liberty City Swingers Stadium
 * Dukes Bay
 * Dukes Bay Bridge
 * East Borough Bridge
 * Dukes cemetery
 * Meadows Park
 * Meadows Park Church
 * Gantry Park

Notable Residents

 * Adam Dimayev (formerly)
 * Aiden O’Malley (formerly)
 * Anthony Prince (formerly)
 * Bucky Sligo (formerly)
 * Derrick McReary (formerly)
 * Eddie Low (formerly)
 * Francis McReary (formerly)
 * Fredo Volpe
 * Galina Bulgarin
 * Gerald McReary
 * Gordon Sargent
 * Harry Hall
 * Harvey Noto
 * Huang Lee
 * Jon Gravelli (formerly)
 * Lester Leroc
 * Liam
 * Kate McReary
 * Mark Volpe (formerly)
 * Maureen McReary
 * Melanie Mallard (formerly)
 * Michael Keane (formerly)
 * Patrick McReary (formerly)
 * Ray Bulgarin (formerly)
 * Tyler Dixon (formerly)
 * Wilhelm (formerly)
 * Wu 'Kenny' Lee (formerly)
 * Xin Shan (formerly)

Businesses in Dukes

 * Steinway Beer Garden (Yorktown Avenue/ Morris Street Intersection, Steinway)
 * Cluckin' Bell (Huntington Street, Cerveza Heights)

Neighborhoods

 * Cerveza Heights (,, )
 * Charge Island (, )
 * East Island City ()
 * Francis International Airport (' with the runway scheme based on ')
 * Meadow Hills ()
 * Meadows Park (, )
 * Steinway (, )
 * Willis (, )

Trivia

 * Unlike any of the three other boroughs or Alderney, no Safehouses that can be resided in are located in Dukes. As a result, Dukes is the only one out of five areas that the protagonists don't reside in.
 * In Chinatown Wars, Huang Lee's first safehouse is located in Cerveza Heights. Therefore, only during the events of GTA IV and EFLC are when no protagonists reside in Dukes.
 * Anthony &quot;Gay Tony&quot; Prince grew up in Dukes, though he keeps it a secret from everyone but Luis Lopez.
 * Dukes is one of two boroughs that doesn't have internet cafes or gun shops. The other one being Bohan.
 * Dukes is the only borough that does not have an accessible Burger Shot, although there is a closed one in Cerveza Heights. Alderney also has an operating Burger Shot.
 * Dukes is one of two Boroughs to have an accessible Cluckin' Bell, the other being Algonquin. However, there is one in Alderney, but it's closed.
 * Dukes appears to have the most parks out of all the boroughs in Liberty City and also has more parks than Alderney. Four parks are located in Dukes: Dukes Park, Gantry Park, Meadows Park, and Steinway Park.

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