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In 2008 Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the Bureau would move from the Manhattan Municipal Building to new quarters in order to provide a more dignified setting for the marriages of New Yorkers, and attract couples who might otherwise travel to Las Vegas to be married, boosting New York's tourist industry. [3] The new Marriage Bureau ...
The New York City Marriage Bureau provides marriage licenses, domestic partnership registration, civil marriage ceremonies, registration of marriage officiants, and copies and amendments of marriage records. The New York City Civil Service Commission (CSC) is the local civil service commission and hears appeals by city employees and applicants ...
In 2002, the State transferred the building to the City of New York, which began using it for marriages in 2009. [1] The City moved the Manhattan Marriage Bureau to the Lefkowitz Building's ornate first floor lobby in order to better compete with wedding destinations such as Las Vegas. [ 4 ]
The New York City Bar Legal Referral Service (LRS) is the oldest lawyer referral service in New York State, and the first one in New York City approved by the American Bar Association. [24] The LRS is a not-for-profit organization, founded by the New York City Bar Association (est. 1870) and the New York County Lawyers' Association (est. 1908).
As an English colony, New York's social services were based on the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1598-1601, in which the poor who could not work were cared for in a poorhouse. Those who could were employed in a workhouse. The first Poorhouse in New York was created in the 1740s, and was a combined Poorhouse, Workhouse, and House of Corrections.
The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (NYSDMV or DMV) is the department of the New York state government [1] responsible for vehicle registration, vehicle inspections, driver's licenses, learner's permits, photo ID cards, and adjudicating traffic violations. Its regulations are compiled in title 15 of the New York Codes, Rules and ...
43rd Street Entrance of the New York City Bar Association Building, c. 1900. After the New York City Bar Association was founded in 1870, it housed itself in a series of buildings in Lower Manhattan. By the 1890s, membership of the Association had grown to the point where its leadership began looking for a new House farther uptown.
City Cemetery, 1881-1950s; City Council, 1647-1977; Civil List, 1883-1967/68; Coroner and Office of Chief Medical Examiner, 1823-1950; Court Records, 1684-1966; District Attorney Records, 1895-1971; Genealogy, 1795-1948; Mayors, 1849-present; New Amsterdam Records, 1647-1862 [5] New York County Court of General Sessions Grand Jury Indictments ...