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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]
The Office of the City Clerk was formerly housed in the Municipal Building; about 16,000 weddings were performed annually at the former Manhattan Marriage Bureau in the Municipal Building, [199] in civil ceremonies lasting about four minutes. The City Clerk's Office relocated to nearby 141 Worth Street in 2009. [6] [200] [201]
The City moved the Manhattan Marriage Bureau to the Lefkowitz Building's ornate first floor lobby in order to better compete with wedding destinations such as Las Vegas. [4] These matrimonial duties later rendered the Lefkowitz a monument to LGBTQ New Yorkers, as 293 couples wed there on the day same-sex marriage became legal in 2011.
Worth is buried two miles north in Worth Square, which is at the north end of Madison Square near 26th Street. [8] In 1868, the city opened the section from Five Points east to Chatham Square. On September 11th, 2001, on the corner of Worth Street and Broadway, Jules Naudet captured American Airlines Flight 11 hitting the World Trade Center's ...
City manager will receive a 16% increase, city attorney 18%, and city clerk 27%. NSB City Commission voted 3-1 to approve the raises on Tuesday.
In New York City, there has been a quarter-century-long effort to reclaim the dead. On September 11th, 2001, the bodies of nearly 2,800 people were buried at ground zero, reduced to anonymous ...
A city official said that Kansas City has not been involved in the Nuro project. Though they are currently researching the technology, the city does not currently have an official stance on self ...
The figures were purchased by the government of New York City in 1906 and originally flanked the Centre Street entrance to the Surrogate's Courthouse; they were removed in early 1960 for the widening of Centre Street and an expansion of the underlying platforms of the New York City Subway's Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall station and were then ...