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The David N. Dinkins Municipal Building (originally the Municipal Building and later known as the Manhattan Municipal Building) is a 40-story, 580-foot (180 m) building at 1 Centre Street, east of Chambers Street, in the Civic Center neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
According to the New York City Department of City Planning, the building has a gross floor area of 33,600 square feet (3,120 m 2). [7] The Wall Street Journal cites the building as having 36,749 square feet (3,414.1 m 2 ) of usable space, [ 21 ] while other sources describe the building as having 45,000 square feet (4,200 m 2 ).
A portion of a map of the city from 1776; De Lancey Square and the grid around it can be seen on the right. The streets of lower Manhattan had, for the most part, developed organically as the colony of New Amsterdam – which became New York when the British took it over from the Dutch without firing a shot in 1664 – grew.
New York City Hall is the seat of New York City government, located at the center of City Hall Park in the Civic Center area of Lower Manhattan, between Broadway, Park Row, and Chambers Street. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, [ 1 ] the building is the oldest city hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions. [ 6 ]
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.
Class Struggle in the New Testament. Lanham: Fortress Academic. ISBN 978-1-9787-0209-7. Obery M. Hendricks Jr., The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus' Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted (2006) C. C. Pecknold, Christianity and Politics: A Brief Guide to the History (Cascade, 2010)
Pages in category "Christianity in New York City" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
The buildings are designed in several different styles and were built over prolonged periods of construction, with the Leake & Watts Orphan Asylum predating the cathedral itself. The cathedral close was collectively designated an official city landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2017.