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3. Queens (Queens County) 4. The Bronx (Bronx County) 5. Staten Island (Richmond County) Note: JFK and LGA airports are both located in Queens (marked by brown). The boroughs of New York City are the five major governmental districts that compose New York City. The boroughs are the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.
The New York City Council is the lawmaking body of New York City in the United States. It has 51 members from 51 council districts throughout the five boroughs . The council serves as a check against the mayor in a mayor-council government model, the performance of city agencies' land use decisions, and legislating on a variety of other issues.
In San Francisco, there is an eleven-member Board of Supervisors, but the executive branch of the government is headed by an elected mayor, department heads are responsible to the mayor, and there is both a city police department and a county sheriff, the latter mostly responsible for operating the county jail and for most jail bookings.) All ...
The Dongan Charter of the City of New York 1686. May 12, 1686 – via HathiTrust. Election districts of the several assembly districts (and 23d and 24th wards) of the city and county of New York, and the boundaries thereof, as revised by the Board of Police, June 28th, 1876. New York: John X. Browne. 1876
Of the 58 counties in California, 14 are governed under a charter. They are Alameda, Butte, El Dorado, Fresno, Los Angeles, Orange, Placer, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Tehama. [6] Nine counties in California are named for saints, tied with Louisiana for the largest number.
Rockland County: 087: New City: February 23, 1798: Orange County: Early settlers' description of terrain as "rocky land" 1,712.60 340,807: 199 sq mi (515 km 2) St. Lawrence County: 089: Canton: March 3, 1802: Clinton County, Herkimer County, and Montgomery County: The St Lawrence River, which forms the northern border of the county and New York ...
City Council Government Type Total Number of Seats District Elected Seats At-large represented Seats 2020 pop. estimate Constituents per Councilmember 1 New York City: New York City Council: Mayor–council: 51 51 8,253,213 161,828 2 Los Angeles: Los Angeles City Council: Mayor–council: 15 15 3,970,219 264,681 3 Chicago: Chicago City Council ...
The first mayor of the expanded city was Robert Anderson Van Wyck . The longest-serving mayors have been Fiorello H. La Guardia (1934–1945), Robert F. Wagner Jr. (1954–1965), Ed Koch (1978–1989) and Michael Bloomberg (2002–2013), each of whom was in office for twelve years (three successive four-year terms).