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The City of New York (1982). [27] A new test was created in which standards were changed so the test was job-related and Berkman with about 40 other women passed to enter the fire academy in 1982. [28] (See Brenda Berkman, et al. v. The City of New York, CV-79-1813, 536 F. Supp. 177 (E.D.N.Y. 1982), aff’d Berkman v. City of New York, 705 F.2d ...
Dutchess County is a county in the U.S. state of New York.As of the 2020 census, the population was 295,911. [4] The county seat is the city of Poughkeepsie. [5] The county was created in 1683, one of New York's first twelve counties, [A] and later organized in 1713.
Montgomery County is a county in the U.S. state of New York.As of the 2020 census, the population was 49,532. [2] The county seat is Fonda. [3] The county was named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 at the Battle of Quebec.
Niagara County is in the U.S. state of New York.As of the 2020 census, the population was 212,666. [2] The county seat is Lockport. [3] The county name is from the Iroquois word Onguiaahra; meaning the strait or thunder of waters. [4]
The New York State Supreme Court Building, originally known as the New York County Courthouse, is located at 60 Centre Street on Foley Square in the Civic Center neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It houses the Civil and Appellate Terms of the New York State Supreme Court for the state's First Judicial District, which is coextensive ...
Henry Hudson's Halve Maen (Half Moon) on the Hudson River The Carson McCullers House in South Nyack DeWint House (circa 1700) is the oldest home in Rockland County. Historic Rockland County Courthouse in New City The territory of the Lenape in present-day southern New York, New Jersey, and eastern sections of Delaware and Pennsylvania
The Hofstadter Committee, also known as the Seabury investigations, was a joint legislative committee formed by the New York State Legislature to probe police and judicial corruption in New York City in 1931. Prompted by allegations of corruption in police and court systems, the Hofstadter Committee heard testimony from a thousand citizens ...
New York City was originally confined to Manhattan Island and the smaller surrounding islands that formed New York County. As the city grew northward, it began annexing areas on the mainland, absorbing territory from Westchester County into New York County in 1874 and 1895 . During the 1898 consolidation, this territory was organized as the ...