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The core of the national civil service is composed of members of the regular service, who are recruited through competitive examinations. This group is further divided into the General Service and the Comprehensive Service, the latter forming a civil service elite.
The date of 1664 appeared on New York City's corporate seal until 1975, when the date was changed to 1625 to reflect the year of Dutch incorporation as a city and to incidentally allow New York to celebrate its 350th anniversary just 11 years after its 300th. The British renamed the colony New York, after the king's brother James, Duke of York ...
York City Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of York, North Yorkshire, England. The team compete in the National League, the fifth level of the English football league system, as of the 2023–24 season . Founded in 1922, the club played seven seasons in non-League football before joining the Football ...
Purchase is a hamlet in the town and village of Harrison, in Westchester County, New York, United States. One myth explains that its name is derived from Harrison's purchase, where John Harrison was to be granted as much land as he could ride in one day. [1] Purchase is home to State University of New York at Purchase and Manhattanville College and is one of the richest communities on the east ...
Buffalo is the county seat of Erie County, and the second most populous city in the U.S. state of New York, after New York City. Originating around 1789 as a small trading community inhabited by the Neutral Nation near the mouth of Buffalo Creek, the city, then a town, grew quickly after the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, with the city at its western terminus. Its position at the eastern ...
York College is a public senior college in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, United States. It is a senior college in the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Founded in 1966, York was the first senior college founded under the newly formed CUNY system, which united several previously independent public colleges into a single public university system in 1961. The college is a member-school ...
The first election in the city to use ranked-choice voting was in the 24th council district in Queens, which took place on February 2, 2021. [6] This was the first time ranked-choice voting was used in the New York City mayoral election.