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Although there is nothing in New York law that mandates legal status to acquire a standard driver's license, a 2002 executive order issued by then-Governor George Pataki established a regulation that effectively bars illegal immigrants and other individuals without a Social Security number from obtaining licenses.
In 1920, New York adopted the Emergency Rent Laws, which effectively charged the courts of New York State with their administration. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ] The rent laws were the result of a series of widespread rent strikes in New York City from 1918 to 1920 that had been sparked by a World War 1 housing shortage, and the subsequent land ...
The state of New York covers a total area of 54,555 square miles (141,297 km 2) and ranks as the 27th-largest state by size. [2] The highest elevation in New York is Mount Marcy in the Adirondack High Peaks in Northern New York, at 5,344 feet (1,629 meters) above sea level; while the state's lowest point is at sea level, on the Atlantic Ocean ...
Catalina Cruz (born c. 1982/1983) [1] [2] [3] is a Colombian-American [4] attorney from the borough of Queens in New York City. [5] A member of the Democratic Party and former undocumented immigrant minor (), Cruz has worked as an advocate for immigration rights, including as Director of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's 2016 Exploited Task Force.
The Hispanic and Latino population is especially large in New York City, where the 2.49 million Hispanics (as defined by the U.S. Census) make up 28.3% of the city's population, the second-largest population group second only to non-Hispanic whites at 30.9.%. [2]
In 1998, the New York Board of Trade became the parent company of the New York Cotton Exchange and the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange (CSCE). Both now function as divisions of NYBOT. [2] NYBOT agreed to become a unit of ICE in September 2006. [3] The New York Board of Trade was a private company founded by Tom Green and Alfredo Williams. [4]
As of the 2020 United States population census, [1] [2] the 62 counties of the State of New York are subdivided into 933 towns, 62 cities, and 10 American Indian reservations. Towns in New York are considered a third-level administrative division and a minor civil division by the US Census Bureau , in contrast to cities and villages, which are ...
New York's 19th congressional district is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives located in New York’s Catskills, Hudson Valley, greater Capital District, Southern Tier, and Finger Lakes regions. It lies partially in the northernmost region of the New York metropolitan area and mostly south of Albany.