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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 December 2024. For a list of the Dutch directors-general who governed New Amsterdam as part of New Netherland between 1624 and 1664, see Director-General of New Netherland. The mayor of New York City is the chief executive of the Government of New York City, as stipulated by New York City's charter ...
Robert Anderson Van Wyck (/ v æ n ˈ w aɪ k / van WYKE; [1] [2] July 20, 1849 – November 14, 1918) was the first mayor of New York City after the consolidation of the five boroughs into the City of Greater New York in 1898.
Bloomfield is located at (42.899218, -77.429623 [3]According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.4 square miles (3.6 km 2), all land.. The village is mostly situated between New York State Route 444 and conjoined US 20/New York State Route 5.
The following is a list of borough presidents of the five boroughs of New York City. Manhattan Before 1874, when it annexed part of the Bronx, New York City was the same as the present Borough of Manhattan. For New York's mayors before 1898, see List of mayors of New York City. # Borough President Party Dates in office Notes 1 Augustus W. Peters (1844–1898) Democratic January 1, 1898 ...
The rise of the city manager: A public professional in local government. (University of New Mexico Press, 1974) Weinstein, James. "Organized business and the city commission and manager movements." Journal of Southern History (1962): 166–182. in JSTOR; White, Leonard D. The city manager (1927) Woodruff, Clinton Rogers (1928). "The City ...
A Jewish-American conservative, Smith was a member of the Libertarian Party of New York in Queens. He revived his "Izzy Slapawitz" character for a series of YouTube videos between June 2011 and September 2012 discussing the debt ceiling crisis , free speech , right-to-work legislation , support for Israel , and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle ...
John Francis Hylan (April 20, 1868 – January 12, 1936) was the 96th Mayor of New York City (the seventh since the consolidation of the five boroughs), from 1918 to 1925. From rural beginnings in the Catskills , Hylan eventually obtained work in Brooklyn as a laborer on the elevated railroad.
New York City, 1664–1710: Conquest and Change (1976) Beckert, Sven. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896 (Cambridge UP, 2001). online; Burrows, Edwin G. and Wallace, Mike (1999). Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press.