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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 ...
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] These matrimonial duties later rendered the Lefkowitz a monument to LGBTQ New Yorkers, as 293 couples wed there on the day same-sex marriage became legal in 2011.
This is a list of New York City borough halls and municipal buildings used for civic agencies. Each of the borough halls serve as offices for their respective borough presidents and borough boards. New York City Hall; Manhattan Municipal Building, Civic Center; Bronx County Courthouse, Concourse, Bronx; Brooklyn Borough Hall, Downtown Brooklyn
New York City – Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, New York. Responsible for the 31 eastern states of the US. San Francisco – Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, San Francisco [22] Responsible for the 19 western states of the US. [23] Singapore – Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Singapore. Responsible for Singapore, Laos, and ...
Department of Records and Information Services; Department overview; Formed: 1977 () Jurisdiction: New York City: Headquarters: 31 Chambers Street, New York, NY 10007 [1] Employees: 78 (2020) [2] Department executive
The New York City Municipal Archives preserves and makes available more than 10 million historical vital records (birth, marriage and death certificates) for all five boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island). Researchers have open access to the indexes, and both microfilmed and digital copies of vital records on-site ...
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.