Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Resigned to become New York City Comptroller. Frank T. Fitzgerald: Democratic 6th: March 4, 1889 – November 4, 1889 Manhattan Resigned when elected register of New York County. John J. Fitzgerald: Democratic 2nd: March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1903 Brooklyn Resigned. 7th: March 4, 1903 – December 31, 1917 John Fitzgibbons: Democratic At-large
On June 1, Mayor Bill de Blasio met with Governor Cuomo and the two declared a curfew for New York City starting at 11 p.m., lasting until 5:00 a.m. Tuesday morning. It was the first city-wide curfew imposed in New York since the Harlem riot of 1943, which followed a white police officer shooting an African American.
July 27, 2024 at 6:53 PM. New York City’s mayor issued an emergency order Saturday suspending parts of a new law intended to ban solitary confinement in local jails a day before it was to take ...
The General Assembly selected New York City as the site for the headquarters of the UN. Construction began on 14 September 1948 and the facility was completed on 9 October 1952. Construction began on 14 September 1948 and the facility was completed on 9 October 1952.
Agency van with current logo. New York City Emergency Management ( NYCEM) (formerly the New York City Office of Emergency Management ( OEM )) was originally formed in 1996 as part of the Mayor's Office under Rudolph W. Giuliani. [2] By a vote of city residents in 2001 it became an independent agency, headed by the commissioner of emergency ...
New York City requires a permit to use "amplified sound", including electric bullhorns. Since Occupy Wall Street did not have a permit, the protesters created the "human microphone" in which a speaker pauses while the nearby members of the audience repeat the phrase in unison. [73] [71] Zuccotti Park, cleared and cleaned on November 15, 2011
The community boards of the New York City government are the appointed advisory groups of the community districts of the five boroughs. There are currently 59 community districts: twelve in the Bronx, eighteen in Brooklyn, twelve in Manhattan, fourteen in Queens, and three in Staten Island. [1]