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[24] [26] [182] The brick facility was opened in 1966 and was operated by Jamaica Buses; the company's original depot was located across the street (114-02 Guy R. Brewer Boulevard) before the land was acquired by New York State in 1958. [41] [182] [36] [183] On January 30, 2006, it was leased to the City of New York and MTA Bus. [4]
On March 22, 1989, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously declared in Board of Estimate of City of New York v. Morris that the Board of Estimate was unconstitutional on the grounds that Brooklyn, the city's most populous borough, had no greater effective representation on the board than Staten Island, the city's least populous ...
The New York State Constitution, Art.X, sec. 5, provides that public benefit corporations may only be created by special act of the legislature. In City of Rye v. MTA, 24 N.Y.2d 627 (1969), the court of appeals explained that "The debates of the 1938 Convention indicate that the proliferation of public authorities after 1927 was the reason for the enactment of section 5 of article X....
This is a list of jail facilities in New York City. It includes federal prisons , county jails, and city jails run by the New York City Department of Corrections . [ 1 ]
The New York City Subway is a heavy-rail public transit system serving four of the five boroughs of New York City. The present New York City Subway system inherited the systems of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND). New York City has owned the IND ...
If the State of New York were an independent nation, it would rank as the 11th-largest economy in the world. [217] However, in 2022, the multi-state, New York City-centered metropolitan statistical area produced a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of over US$2.16 trillion, the largest metropolitan economy worldwide and behind the GDP of only ...
Many of the state of New York's largest cities have introduced laws in the last decade prohibiting 'aggressive begging' in some form. The 1993 Loper case was a challenge to the state-wide law in the New York Penal Code §240.35(1) which made it an offence to loiter in a public place for the purpose of begging.
Starting on May 1, 2022, the fare for the Q70 bus was waived while the New York state government studied alternatives to the planned AirTrain LaGuardia people-mover system. [84] [85] As part of a pilot program by the MTA to make five bus routes free (one in each borough), the B60, Bx18, M116, Q4, and S46/96 were selected as fare-free routes in ...