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The City of Greater New York was the consolidation of the City of New York with Brooklyn, western Queens County, and Staten Island, which took effect on January 1, 1898. New York had already annexed the Bronx (west of the Bronx River in 1874, east of the Bronx River in 1895), so the consolidated city sprawled across five counties, which became the five Boroughs of modern New York.
City of New York. Several ships have been named City of New York, including: City of New York (1861), a transatlantic passenger ship of Inman Line, wrecked at Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland in 1864 [1] [2] SS City of New York (1863), a Great Lakes steam barge, sank in Lake Ontario in 1921 [3] [4] City of New York (1865), a transatlantic passenger ...
The government of New York City, headquartered at New York City Hall in Lower Manhattan, is organized under the New York City Charter and provides for a mayor-council system. The mayor is elected to a four-year term and is responsible for the administration of city government. The New York City Council is a unicameral body consisting of 51 ...
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. Each borough is coextensive with a respective county of the State of New York: The Bronx is Bronx County, Brooklyn is Kings County, Manhattan is New York County, Queens ...
The New York City Department of Buildings ( DOB) is the department of the New York City government that enforces the city's building codes and zoning regulations, issues building permits, licenses, registers and disciplines certain construction trades, responds to structural emergencies and inspects over 1,000,000 new and existing buildings.
The City of New York is home to many arts organizations. They include: American Dance Festival. Bronx Council on the Arts. Brooklyn Academy of Music. Brooklyn Historic Railway Association. City Parks Foundation. Creative Time. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Pearl Theatre, 2015. The Pearl Theatre Company, commonly referred to as the Pearl Theatre, was a theatre in New York City. It was established in Chelsea by Shepard Sobel in 1984, [1] with David Hyde Pierce part of the company's first season. [2] The company focused on producing classic works performed by their resident acting company.
The Archbishop of New York is the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, who is responsible for looking after its spiritual and administrative needs.As the archdiocese is the metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical province encompassing nearly all of the state of New York, the Archbishop of New York also administers the bishops who head the suffragan dioceses of Albany, Brooklyn ...