Did you know there are five boroughs in New York City?

That’s right; five. Smug Manhattanites love to pretend that the Big Apple begins and ends with their tiny, bourgeois island, but they’re wrong.

If you head northeast, you’ll wind up in the Bronx, a place that Yuppie parents warn their impressionable children never to go to at night lest they never return.

As it turns out, however, the little borough saddled atop Queens isn’t a bad place to find starry-eyed candidates for one’s blossoming Cabinet, Barack Obama learned, because in a talk at Yale, Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion Jr. announced that he had been tapped to join the President-elect’s Cabinet.

The Yale Daily News reports:

Speaking at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, Carrion said he had been notified by the Obama administration earlier that day that he had been selected. He prefaced his comments by telling attendees they were "off the record" and did not specify for which position he had been chosen, ten students who were in attendance confirmed.

"He said he was in consideration for a number of cabinet positions and that he 'got the call' indicating he was selected," one student said.

Another student said Carrion told some attendees in a conversation before the lecture that as he was heading to dinner in advance of the Slifka event, he received a congratulatory phone call from Sen. Hillary Clinton LAW '73 of New York, whom Obama has nominated to be secretary of state.

Off the record or not, this is all but confirmed.

Expect the announcement at some point this week and for NY’s second least appealing borough (sorry Staten Island; any place that requires travel via ferry is a terrible one indeed) to finally get some positive time in the spotlight.