Talk:Government of New York City

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This is all very formal and does not make any reference to, or link to information about, political machines or even that (for example) Brooklyn was once a city in its own right. It would seem that there ought to be a corresponding and linked Politics of New York City. Is that out there somewhere and I'm just not finding it? -- Jmabel | Talk 21:23, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)

No mention of the elected District Attorneys, 1 for each of the 5 boroughs. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Matthew238 (talk • contribs) 2 Nov 2005.

Jmabel, you make a good point. A "Politics of NYC" subsection should be included here (not in a seperate article). Info on the machines would be interesting. Someone with authority on the city's politics should write it up. Wv235 18:54, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Much of this information is in History of New York City and in the daughter articles referenced therein for more specific time periods. For example, Tammany Hall (the pre-eminent machine) is covered in History of New York City (1855-1897). The article on Government of New York City is thus freed up to cover only current information. JamesMLane t c 21:49, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Even if it's just "see also" material that lets people follow it up, that would be useful. And, admittedly, I haven't lived there in over 25 years, but I can hardly imagine that (in Brooklyn and Queens, especially) machine politics is a purely historical matter. - Jmabel | Talk 18:39, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wards

At some point the the city (or at least Manhattan and Brooklyn) were divided into Wards (3rd Ward, etc). Does anyone have any info about when these were abolished? Sylvain1972 20:13, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Major changes - 7/26/06

I have spent several hours this evening overhauling this article. It needs more work, but it has finally been arranged more coherently. Please refine with detail as you see fit. The daughter articles linking from here need more work in particular. Wv235 00:43, 27 July 1456 (UTC)[reply]

Criminal Court System

The page is self-contradictory. In the opening section it says there are separate DA's and separate criminal court systems in the five counties. But in the Judicial Branch section it says there is a single unified criminal court system for the whole of NYC. So which is it? TomH 01:35, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Public Advocate

Was there a charter revision to replace public advocate as next in the line of succession below the mayor? I remember back during Rudy's first rumored Senate run, there was talk that Mark Green would become mayor if Rudy resigned or got elected to Congress. Wl219 14:17, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Do NYC councillors have two year terms or four?

in the second para we are told "Councilors are elected to two year terms"

later on in Government of New York City#Legislative branch we are told "Council members are elected every four years".

Furthermore in New_York_City#Government we are told "councilors are limited to two four-year terms" and in New York City Council we have "Council members are elected every four years, except for two consecutive two year terms every twenty years (starting in 2001 and 2003 and again in 2021 and 2023)".

So what is it?

--Xorkl000 04:20, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

They aren't 'councillors," as this isn't the UK, and it is the last, the second in the main article for the sake of simplicity. The two year term was ended in 1989.HarvardOxon 04:29, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nearly coterminous?

I thought they were absolutely coterminous. I searched for a few hours for a reference to any sort of overlap between the boroughs/counties as well as Nassau and Westchester and couldn't. Unless anyone disagress and has a source, I'm going to remove the "nearly."Armandtanzarian 22:23, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:22, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of Departments and Agencies

There should be mention about the number of agencies and departments the city has (Police, Fire, Correction, HR, Parks, Homeless Services, etc). NYC's government apparatus is massive. An infobox linking to the wiki pages of each of the agencies/departments would organize this page much better. Arnabdas (talk) 15:35, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]