Anchored by Wall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world,[20][53][54][55][56] and the city is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total ...
Two themes are constant in the administrative history of New York: tension between the city leadership and the superior authority of the state in the struggle for home rule, and the municipality’s desire to contain the decentralizing tendencies caused by its component elements. In the Dutch colon...
New York City Zoning-1961-1991: Turning Back the Clock-But with An Up-to-the-Minute Social Agenda. Norman Marcus. Fordham Urban Law Journal . 1992MARCUS Norman, « Zoning from 1961 to 1991 : turning back the clock - but with an up- to-the-minute social agenda », BRESSI Todd W....
is only half the size of New York’s. This is in part a reflection of their tax burden, which in Florida is much smaller. …Florida has no state income tax, while New York’s top tax rate is 10.9%. In New York City, the top rate is 14.8%, while in Miami...
The High Line, elevated park and promenade built on an abandoned freight rail line on the West Side of Manhattan, New York. Its first section opened in 2009 and the final section in 2014. When it was completed, the High Line occupied 22 of the 41 blocks
Mayor Eric Adams' massive rezoning plan known as "City of Yes" cleared a major hurdle Thursday, passing key City Council committee votes, with some modifications. CBS News New York's Ali Bauman was in City Hall for the hearing.
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Joe Griffo backed it, in part, because the compact could have made all of New York relevant in a White House contest. “You wouldn’t just focus on New York City, because if you’re a Republican you need the upstate vote,” he said. But a wholesale change to the constitution by ...
NEW YORK, June 9 (Xinhua) -- Workers had started to paint New York's Times Square into different colored zones from Wednesday night into early Thursday morning, as part of the city's effort to regulate pedestrian flow and street performers activities. ...
So the City is presented with the messy and complicated challenge of deciding where and how to site municipal infrastructure and services in the face of practical constraints (e.g. limited agency budgets, zoning regulations, and finite space) and, in many cases, community opposition. Too often,...