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  Learn more about New York, New York in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
New York—often called New York City to distinguish it from the state of New York in which it is located—is the most populous city in the United States.
New York City is part of the New York metropolitan area with a population of around 20 million.
The New York Islanders reside in the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum of Uniondale, New York.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /n/ne/new_york__new_york.html   (3428 words)

  
 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Maynard Jackson (1938-2003)
Elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973, Maynard Jackson was the first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city.
The new charter changed the aldermen to council members and replaced the vice mayor with the position of president of the city council.
As mayor, one of Jackson's main priorities was to ensure that minority businesses received more municipal contracts, and he succeeded in raising the proportion from less than 1 percent to more than 35 percent.
www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1385&pid=s-71   (1363 words)

  
 New York mayor backs civil unions - baltimoresun.com
NEW YORK - The mayor of the nation's largest city says same-sex couples deserve the same rights in civil unions that straight couples enjoy in marriage, but he will continue to enforce New York state's ban on gay marriage.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's statement came the same week that dozens of same-sex couples seeking marriage licenses were turned away by the city clerk and when state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer held that gay and lesbian marriages are prohibited by state law.
New York is among 12 states without laws explicitly defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
www.baltimoresun.com /news/local/bal-te.marriage07mar07,0,5768421.story?coll=bal-home-headlines   (714 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Bloomberg sworn in as New York mayor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
New York City's new mayor, Michael Bloomberg, former, embraces former mayor Rudy Giuliani moments after Giuliani administered the oath of office to Bloomberg in Times Square.
NEW YORK (AP) — On a freezing New Year's Day, political novice Michael Rubens Bloomberg was sworn in Tuesday as the city's 108th mayor during an inauguration ceremony on the steps of City Hall.
The new mayor's task is made even more overwhelming because Bloomberg, who made billions on Wall Street and from Bloomberg L.P. — the privately held financial information company he founded — has never held public office.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2002/01/01/bloomberg.htm   (692 words)

  
 Sicilian Culture: The People: New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani
Mayor Giuliani has returned the work ethic to the center of City life by implementing the largest and most successful welfare-to-work initiative in the country, cutting welfare rolls in half while moving over 640,000 individuals from dependency on the government to the dignity of self-sufficiency.
The fund is the most recent example of the Mayor's commitment to both providing quality educational alternatives to all City families, regardless of their income, and to spurring the New York City public schools to improve through competition.
New York has established itself as the City others look toward when they want to study the most innovative strategies for reducing crime, reforming welfare, encouraging economic growth, and improving the overall quality of life.
www.sicilianculture.com /people/giuliani.htm   (1332 words)

  
 Mayor Michael R Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City
Michael R. Bloomberg, the 108th Mayor of the City of New York was born on February 14, 1942 to middle class parents in Medford, Massachusetts, where his father was the bookkeeper at a local dairy.
Mayor Bloomberg's thirst for information and fascination with technology was evident at an early age, and led him to Johns Hopkins University, where he parked cars and took out loans to finance his education.
He funded relief programs for victims of domestic violence in New York City, sponsored the Children's Health Fund's Mobile Medical Unit which serves the children of homeless families, and supported construction of new athletic fields at city high schools throughout the five boroughs.
www.carnaval.com /cityguides/newyork/Mayor/mayorB.htm   (559 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Village mayor in New York says he will marry gay couples   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Mayor Jason West, who won office last year on the Green Party line, said Friday he intends to marry up to a dozen same-gender couples at a private bed and breakfast.
The state Health Department said Thursday that New York's domestic relations law does not allow the issuance of marriage licenses to same sex couples and that New York courts have recognized only marriages between men and women as valid.
New York's attorney general has not issued a ruling on the question.
www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/02/27/village_mayor_in_new_york_says_he_will_marry_gay_couples   (785 words)

  
 BBC News | AMERICAS | New mayor for New York
The new mayor of New York, billionaire financier Michael Bloomberg, has been sworn in during an inauguration ceremony on the steps of the City Hall.
On a freezing New Year's Day, the City's 108th mayor took the oath of allegiance, in a ceremony watched by half a million people and accompanied by a blizzard of red, white and blue confetti.
He pledged to cut the staff of the mayor's office by 20% in an effort to slash costs and urged other city offices to follow suit.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/americas/1737765.stm   (412 words)

  
 Press Releases: Mayor of New York's 9/11 Message   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has prepared a letter to all citizens of the world expressing the appreciation of the people of the city of New York, for the international outpouring of support and solidarity following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
The attack took place in New York City, but every corner of the globe was affected.
Although we will never forget the tremendous loss that we suffered, New York is a stronger city today than it was a year ago: determined to rebuild and resolved to preserve our precious freedom.
bangkok.usembassy.gov /news/press/2002/nrot094.htm   (258 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Politics / Conventions / New York mayor a party maverick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
NEW YORK -- The Republican National Convention opens Monday night with welcoming remarks from Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the party's few big-city mayors and a leading moderate whose support for gay marriage, abortion rights, and embryonic stem cell research is way out of step with his party's conservative mainstream.
So Bloomberg, who worked hard to bring the Republicans to New York City for the first time, plans to say his piece and then skip the rest of the convention.
Even Bloomberg's critics say the mayor has kept a healthy distance from the president and his own party, but wonder if it will be possible to continue to do so during and after the convention.
www.boston.com /news/politics/conventions/articles/2004/08/27/new_york_mayor_a_party_maverick   (452 words)

  
 New York Mayor Giuliani diagnosed with prostate cancer - April 27, 2000
NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani revealed Thursday that he has been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer and will decide on a course of treatment before making any decision on his expected Senate run against first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The New York mayor was spotted by a reporter as he entered the Guggenheim Pavilion of Mount Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday morning.
The second-term mayor cited his father's death from prostate cancer as the main reason the PSA test was included as part of his annual physical.
archives.cnn.com /2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/04/27/giuliani.cancer   (1149 words)

  
 Bloomberg takes over as Mayor of New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
NEW YORK - Billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg was sworn in as mayor of New York City on Tuesday and issued a call for shared sacrifice to tackle the city’s problems.
Saying that New York would have to learn to make do with less, he announced a 20 percent cut in staffing at the mayor’s office.
The new mayor’s task is made even more overwhelming because Bloomberg, who made his fortune on Wall Street and from Bloomberg L.P. - the financial information company he founded - has never before held public office.
archive.chieftain.org /2002/jan/2/nat13.htm   (698 words)

  
 U.S. Mayor Article | New York Mayor, Lawmakers Pleased With Bush Aid Package (March 18, 2002)
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg visited Washington, D.C. last week to shore up support for the City's $21.5 billion federal aid package to help the city recover from the September 11th terrorist attacks.
The mayor's visit came at a time when a handful of lawmakers had begun to question the level of funding for New York City.
To make his point, the mayor indicated that the clean up at ground zero was likely to be completed at a cost of $750 million, not the projected $2 billion.
www.usmayors.org /uscm/us_mayor_newspaper/documents/03_18_02/nyc_bush_aid.asp   (1004 words)

  
 SI.com - SI Exclusive - Q&A with Rudy Giuliani: The former mayor of New York City is an avid and conspicuous Yankees ...
SI.com - SI Exclusive - Q&A with Rudy Giuliani: The former mayor of New York City is an avid and conspicuous Yankees fan.
The former mayor of New York City is an avid and conspicuous Yankees fan.
New York is made up of people relocated from all over the country.
robots.cnnsi.com /pr/subs/siexclusive/2003/10/09/scorecard_qa/index.html   (1497 words)

  
 haiti mayor new york   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Mayor Bloomberg had planned to visit Haiti in January to celebrate the island's bicentennial, but that trip was...
NEW YORK (AP) Mayor Michael Bloomberg canceled his trip to Haiti scheduled for Sunday...
NEW YORK On Nov. 8, residents of the city's five boroughs will cast their votes for the candidate they feel will be the best mayor...
www.fouye.com /directory/haiti-mayor-new-york.html   (597 words)

  
 Mayor: New York City Has Flawed Structure; Police Should Control Airports, Bridges, Tunnels in Emergency: Homeland ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday that the city's multi-agency command structure for protecting bridges, tunnels and airports is ''backward,'' and proposed allowing the New York Police Department to take over during disasters.
The mayor said the NYPD is ''the agency generally recognized as the most sophisticated counterterrorism force in the world,'' and should be calling the shots if a catastrophe strikes any of those targets.
New Yorkers would sign up in advance by submitting their mobile phone numbers to the city, and the Office of Emergency Management would then send mass text messages during emergencies.
www.officer.com /article/article.jsp?siteSection=8&id=26145   (749 words)

  
 Guardian | Killjoy mayor turns New York into the forbidden Apple
In this city where public smoking is banned, she was breaking the law - just one of many stringent regulations which critics claim are stifling the life of 'the city that never sleeps'.
New York was once the place where anything goes, but under Bloomberg's reign it is fast becoming one of the most controlled cities in America.
The new laws have helped turn the city into one of the healthiest and most pleasant places to live in America - a far cry from its old image of a dirty, heaving, dangerous metropolis.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4833622-110878,00.html   (718 words)

  
 CNN.com - New York mayor: Can everybody just pipe down? - Oct. 4, 2002
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has declared war on noise.
You're the quintessential New Yorker; I mean you're a limousine-liberal New Yorker, but you are the quintessential New Yorker and you know that this is a city that revels in the explosion of sight, of sound, of taste, of smell.
Bloomberg is desperately trying to, I guess, divert attention from the $5 billion budget gap that the city of New York faces.
edition.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/04/cf.opinion.new.york.noise   (796 words)

  
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New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra - New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, dating from 1842, the oldest symphony orchestra in the...
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0108252.html   (700 words)

  
 Catholic World News : New York town's mayor to continue same-sex "weddings" despite criminal charges
New Paltz, New York, Mar. 04, 2004 (LifesiteNews.com/CWN) - The mayor of New Paltz, New York, has decided to go ahead with up to two-dozen homosexual "marriages" this weekend despite 19 criminal charges against him.
Mayor John Shields of Nyack, New York, told the Associated Press that he is also going to start issuing the licenses later this week but not before he seeks a license to "marry" his homosexual partner from a municipal clerk on Friday.
A spokesman for the New York Health Department last week said that the law only recognizes marriages between a man and a woman, and that the domestic relations law forbids same-sex "marriage".
www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=28074   (509 words)

  
 HoustonChronicle.com - New York's mayor wants term extended
NEW YORK - Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who is barred by term limits from running for re-election this fall, is trying to extend his term, a source close to the mayor told The Associated Press today.
It was unclear whether the mayor would try to amend those laws so voters could elect him for a third term or whether he would try to extend his current term.
The mayor ran for Senate from New York last year against Hillary Rodham Clinton but dropped out of the race six months before the election amid revelations that he had prostate cancer and a girlfriend.
www.chron.com /cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/special/terror/aftermath/1059488   (696 words)

  
 IMS: Rudolph Giuliani, Mayor of New York City, National Press Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
New York City's Republican Mayor Rudolph Giuliani used the platform of a March 30 luncheon to appeal to federal and state governments and the courts to roll back unfunded mandates, leaving fund allocations to local discretion.
Giuliani ticked off a string of his city's funding horror stories including one he suspected ought not be raised in a press club: New York is required by mandate to spend $175,000 a year for newspapers for the inmates of city jails.
The New York Mayor laughed in reply that there might be some doubts about the political savvy of one who backed Democrat Mario Cuomo in his unsuccessful bid for re-election as Governor of New York.
town.hall.org /Archives/radio/IMS/Club/950330_club_ITH.html   (310 words)

  
 CNN.com - New York town's mayor marries same-sex couples - Feb. 28, 2004
Mayor Jason West said he considers it his "moral obligation" to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
The New York State Health Department questioned West's decision, arguing that the state's domestic relations law does not allow marriage between same-sex couples.
New York Gov. George Pataki has not commented publicly on West's decision, but he said Wednesday that state marriage laws state that "marriage is between a man and a woman."
www.cnn.com /2004/US/Northeast/02/27/ny.samesex.marriage   (748 words)

  
 Gifford Miller for Mayor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
New York Sun applauds Miller's "innovative" renters' tax credit and leadership on emergency planning.
New York Times lauds Gifford Miller as the "most experienced" of the Democratic candidates.
It has truly been an honor to run for Mayor and to have had the chance to meet so many New Yorkers, hear their concerns and share my ideas for the future of our great city.
www.millerfornewyork.com   (611 words)

  
 PND News - New York City Mayor Gave $130 Million to Charity in 2002
New York City's billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, contributed $130.9 million to charities last year, up roughly 7 percent from the $122.5 million he gave away in 2001, the New York Times reports.
The mayor receives an 84.55 percent share of the profits from the partnership and claims credit for the same portion of its charitable giving.
Although private foundations are required by law to spend at least 5 percent of their assets on grantmaking activities each year, a spokesman for the mayor said the foundation was not obligated to make any grants in 2002 because it had far exceeded the payout requirement in previous years.
fdncenter.org /pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=36500027   (315 words)

  
 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)
At one such dance in the summer of 1918 Mitchell met twenty-two-year-old Clifford Henry, a wealthy and socially prominent New Yorker who was a bayonet instructor at Camp Gordon.
He read part of the manuscript on the train to New Orleans, Louisiana, and sent it straight to New York.
U.S. president Harry Truman, Georgia governor Herman Talmadge, and Atlanta mayor William Hartsfield all asked to be kept informed of her condition.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2566&pid=s-71   (1753 words)

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