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nyc.gov/dob. 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 ...
However, since 2007 the State has allowed the DOB to refuse to accept plans filed by individuals who have been found to abuse the Self Certification process (or other regulations). [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The Department of Buildings used this law for the first time in January 2008, banning engineer Leon St. Clair Nation from filing any work in the City for ...
The New York City Municipal Archives (NYCMA) is a division of the New York City Department of Records and Information Services, located in the Surrogate's Courthouse in Manhattan. Founded in 1950, the Municipal Archives preserves and makes accessible records created by the government of New York City (including the mayor's office, city agencies ...
The boroughs of New York City are the five major governmental districts that compose New York City. They 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 is Queens ...
Counties of New York Location State of New York Number 62 Populations 5,082 (Hamilton) – 2,561,225 (Kings) Areas 33.77 square miles (87.5 km 2) (New York) – 2,821 square miles (7,310 km 2) (St. Lawrence) Government County government Subdivisions Cities, Towns, Indian Reservations Part of a series on Regions of New York Downstate New York New York City Long Island Hudson Valley (Lower ...
January 12: New York City Victory Parade of 1946. May 20: a United States Army Air Forces C-45 Beechcraft airplane crashed into the 58th floor on the north side of 40 Wall Street killing 5. [104] June 25: Fire destroys the St. George terminal of the Staten Island Ferry, killing 3 and injuring 280.
The Department of Investigation (DOI) is a law enforcement agency that serves as an independent and nonpartisan watchdog for New York City government. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is the agency charged with administering the city's Landmarks Preservation Law. The Law Department (Law) is responsible for most of the ...
New York experimented with different types of municipalities before settling upon the current format of towns and cities occupying all the land in a county. [3] Districts were created for Albany and Tryon counties in 1772; [4] all were transformed into towns (or divided into multiple towns) in 1788 when all of the state of New York was divided ...