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2002 – Nevada amends its state constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage and polygamy. 2004 – Massachusetts grants and recognizes same-sex marriages, while 14 states rush to outlaw same-sex marriage and polygamy through their state constitutions in response. 2005 – Texas amends its state constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage and polygamy.
The 1858 Staten Island Quarantine War was a series of attacks on the New York Marine Hospital in Staten Island. The earliest New York state laws regarding public health were quarantine laws for the port of New York, first passed by the New York General Assembly in 1758.
Department of Public Health, though the decision was complicated by uncertainty about the recognition of same-sex marriages in New York and Rhode Island. [17] The law was repealed on July 31, 2008. [18]
Long Island quickly became New York City's retreat – with millions of people going to and from the city to the new state parks. In time, development started to follow the parkways and the railroad lines, with commuter towns springing up first along the railroad, then the roadways: the Southern State Parkway , the Northern State Parkway , and ...
Furthermore, the proportion of New York State's population residing on Long Island has also been increasing, with Long Island's census-estimated population increasing 6.5% since 2010, to 8,063,232 in 2020, representing 40% of New York State's census 2020-enumerated population of 20,215,751 [87] and with a population density of 5,859.5 ...
Department of Public Health, on behalf of several out-of-state same-sex couples and several town clerks who objected to being forced to discriminate in denying licenses to such couples. [132] The SJC upheld the law on March 30, 2006, though it allowed that residents of states like New York and Vermont , which did not explicitly exclude same-sex ...
The new Marriage Bureau opened on January 12, 2009 on the ground floor at the Louis J. Lefkowitz State Office Building, a 1920s Art Deco building at 141 Worth Street (corner of Centre Street and Worth Street) that was formerly occupied by a Department of Motor Vehicles office. [4]
From July 2011 to December 2012, approximately 12,285 same-sex marriages were performed in the state of New York. [111] The New York State Department of Health has recorded the number of same-sex marriages performed in New York (excluding New York City) since 2012, shown in the table below, with Erie, Suffolk and Westchester counties ...