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32 unusual facts about Mayor of New York City


1968 Republican National Convention

House Minority Leader Gerald Ford proposed New York City Mayor John Lindsay for Vice President but Nixon turned to another moderate, Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew, who placed Nixon's name in nomination at the convention.

Alfred DelBello

He ran for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor as the running mate of then Mayor of New York City Ed Koch.

Barbara Margolis

Barbara Ann "Bobbie" Margolis (October 4, 1929 – July 3, 2009) was an American prisoners' rights advocate who served as the official greeter of New York City under the administration of Mayor of New York City Ed Koch.

Board of Estimate of City of New York v. Morris

It was composed of eight ex officio members: the Mayor of New York City, the New York City Comptroller and the President of the New York City Council, each of whom was elected citywide and had two votes, and the five Borough presidents, each having one vote.

Bronx High School for the Visual Arts

The Bronx High School for the Visual Arts (BHSVA), familiarly known as Visual Arts, is a New York City public high school established as an art school in 2002 under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Small Schools Initiative program (officially, the New Century High Schools Initiative).

Bronx–Whitestone Bridge

The Bronx–Whitestone Bridge opened on April 29, 1939, in festivities led by then-Mayor of New York City Fiorello H. La Guardia.

Dodgers–Yankees rivalry

New York City itself was going through a financial crisis under Mayor Abraham Beame and experienced the Son of Sam and a major blackout, all chronicled in The Bronx is Burning.

Domenic Recchia

While working with Speaker Quinn and Mayor Bloomberg, each year the Council passed an on-time budget under his leadership.

Edmund Murray Dodd

Dodd married Caroline Maria Ritchie in 1830, a granddaughter of David Mathews, the Loyalist Mayor of New York City under the British during the American Revolution, after the death of his first wife.

Edward McGlynn

In the year 1886 he took an active part in the failed campaign of Henry George for the office of Mayor of New York City.

Erik Thorbecke

His mother Madelaine Salisbury's great grandfather Fernando Wood was a Mayor of New York City.

Independent Greens of Virginia

On January 1, 2008, the Independent Greens became the first state political party in America to launch a petition drive to put New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on the ballot for President of the United States.

Industrial Union Party

The new IUP immediately announced candidates in the New York City elections: Adolph Silver for Mayor, Irving Oring for Comptroller, and Sam Brandon for President of Alderman.

Jeff Koyen

The article was widely condemned by Senators Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Matt Drudge, and Abe Foxman, among others, including now-disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner who suggested that New Yorkers take copies of that issue out of their news boxes and destroy them.

Joan Nathan

She was a co-founder of New York's Ninth Avenue Food Festival under then-Mayor Abraham Beame.

Joseph Zaretzki

In 1965, the Democratic Party achieved for the only time since 1938 a majority in the State Senate, but the Democratic senators were divided in two factions, 15 senators allied with Mayor of New York City Robert F. Wagner, Jr., and 18 senators allied with U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

Liberal Party of New York

In 1969, Lindsay, the incumbent Republican Mayor of New York City, lost his own party's primary but was reelected on the Liberal Party line alone, bringing along 'on his coat-tails' enough Liberal candidates for City Council to replace the Republicans as the Minority Party in City government.

At their founding, the Liberal Party had conceived a plan to become a national party, with former Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie as its national leader and candidate for Mayor of New York City in 1945.

Lucien Sanial

In 1886 Sanial became active in the political campaign of Henry George in his effort to become Mayor of New York City.

Mafia Commission Trial

It was also one of several high profile victories for Giuliani, establishing his strong name recognition and providing a public platform for his first run for Mayor of New York City in 1989.

Marco Antonio Rigau

From 1973 to 1974, he served as Chairperson of the Hispanic Criminal Justice Task Force of New York and worked as counsel to the Mayor of New York City.

Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology

The Mayor chooses winners from a list of finalists submitted by the New York Academy of Sciences and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Moonachie, New Jersey

The name of the borough is typically pronounced "moo-NAH-kee;" however, in January 1987, then-Mayor of New York City Ed Koch pronounced it "mah-NOO-chee" when he made his now-famous quip that the New York Giants should hold their victory parade in the borough after the team had just won Super Bowl XXI.

Municipal Ownership League

Hearst, a lifelong Democrat, formed the party chiefly as a means of toppling the Tammany Hall political machine, a faction of the Democratic Party which then dominated city politics, and specifically to defeat Tammany crony George B. McClellan, Jr., who was then running for a second term as Mayor of New York City.

N. Bowditch Blunt

In 1851, Blunt appointed as his Assistant D.A. the then 24-year old A. Oakey Hall who was elected D.A. of New York in November 1854, and was Mayor of New York City from 1869 to 1872.

Page Cortez

Boustany and LeBlanc endorsed the failed candidacy of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for the American presidency.

Patricia Harris

She advised the Mayor of New York City, then Michael Bloomberg, on administrative, operational, and policy matters.

Robert Minor

He also ran for Mayor of New York City in 1933, and in 1936 he headed the state Communist ticket as the party's candidate for Governor of New York.

Sally Regenhard

In recent years, Regenhard has become one of the most vocal and visible critics of Rudolph Giuliani, who was Mayor of New York City at the time of the attacks.

Sayre's law

Observing that the mayoralty of New York is often referred to as the second biggest executive office in the country, that U.S. Representative is the highest previous political office held by any incumbent, and that no New York mayor ever went on to other high domestic public office after leaving the mayoralty, Wallace Sayre declared: "The mayors of New York come from nowhere and go nowhere."

The Standard State Zoning Enabling Act

The first Standard State Zoning Enabling Act, (or "SZEA") was written by a New York City commission headed by Edward Bassett and signed by Mayor John Purroy Mitchel in 1916 to regulate buildings and land usage in New York City.

Tim Gunn

Gunn endorsed Christine Quinn's candidacy for Mayor of New York City in the 2013 mayoral election.


Arthur Levitt, Sr.

In 1961, he was the Tammany Hall regular candidate for the Democratic nomination for Mayor of New York City, but was defeated in the primary by incumbent Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr. who had broken with Tammany's leader, Carmine DeSapio.

Charles Bunstein Stover

Ardolph Loges Kline, the Mayor of New York City had Stover suspended, and he mailed in a letter of resignation from Cincinnati.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse

U.S. Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Alfonse D'Amato, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Representative Jerrold Nadler, Second Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jon O. Newman, Southern District of New York Chief Judge Thomas P. Griesa attended the ceremony.

Dorothy Rabinowitz

She described Mayor Michael Bloomberg as "autocratic" and "a practiced denier" and City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan as "ideology-maddened".

Henry Osborne Havemeyer

In 1842 William F. Havemeyer began a political career, serving three terms as Mayor of New York City.

Howard Wolfson

He was a senior strategist for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's 2009 re-election campaign.

Nathan Feinsinger

Feinsinger was appointed chairman of a three-member mediation panel by Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr. and Mayor-elect John Lindsay.

Phillip French

Phillip French was the 27th Mayor of New York City from 1702 to 1703.