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The Council of Churches of the City of New York (CCCNY) was established in 1815 as the Brooklyn Church and Mission Society. It is the oldest ecumenical council of churches in the United States. The council represents 1.5 million Protestants, Anglicans and Orthodox Christians. A. R. Bernard is the president of the council.
The history of the New York City Council can be traced to Dutch Colonial times when New York City was known as New Amsterdam. On February 2, 1653, the town of New Amsterdam, founded on the southern tip of Manhattan Island in 1625, was incorporated as a city under a charter issued by the Dutch West India Company. A Council of Legislators sat as ...
As of 2021, the comptroller had a staff of 800 people, and a budget of over $100 million. If vacancies were to occur simultaneously in the offices of Mayor of New York City and New York City Public Advocate, the comptroller would become acting mayor. The current comptroller is Democrat Brad Lander. He was elected in 2021.
Riverside Church is an interdenominational church in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The church is associated with the American Baptist Churches USA and the United Church of Christ .
The council was the original anchor tenant in the 19-story Interchurch Center built in 1952 adjacent to Columbia University, Union Theological Seminary, and the Riverside Church in New York City. It vacated these premises in 2013 when it consolidated its offices in the building long used by its public-policy staff at 110 Maryland Avenue, NE, on ...
September 1776 view of New York City showing at center left the spire of Trinity Church. The church was destroyed in the Great New York City Fire of 1776, which started in the Fighting Cocks Tavern, destroying between 400 and 500 buildings and houses, and leaving thousands of New Yorkers homeless. Six days later, most of the city's volunteer ...
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2002. ISBN 1-892145-20-0; Boggs, Timothy A, Bruce Parker, and Sam Waterson. Through the Gates into the City: a Metropolis, a Seminary, and a Chapel. New York: The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, 2007. Burrows, Edwin G, and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 October 2024. For a list of the Dutch directors-general who governed New Amsterdam as part of New Netherland between 1624 and 1664, see Director-General of New Netherland. The mayor of New York City is the chief executive of the Government of New York City, as stipulated by New York City's charter. The ...