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New Weird The New Weird is an avant-garde literary movement or literary genre that may or may not be presently in progress. The writers involved are mostly novelists who are considered to be parts of the science fiction or speculative fiction genres.
New Weird America New Weird America describes a psychedelic folk musical movement of the 2000s. The term is generally believed to have been coined by David Keenan in the August 2003 issue of The Wire, following the Brattleboro Free Folk Festival organized by Matt Valentine.
New West Records New West Records is a record label based in Austin, Texas and Los Angeles, California. It was established in 1998, and has been home to several indie rock and alternative country bands, but is probably best known for representing the PBS show Austin City Limits.
New Westminster (electoral districts) New Westminster was the name, or part of the name, of several Canadian federal and provincial electoral districts. All provincial and federal ridings in the area of the Lower Mainland were part of the original New Westminster ridings.
New Westminster City New Westminster City was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1871 to 1912. For other electoral districts in New Westminster, please see New Westminster (electoral districts).
New Westminster District New Westminster District was a Canadian federal electoral district created when the province of British Columbia joined Confederation in 1871. Like other ridings established in that year, a byelection was called to fill the seat until the general election of 1872.
New Westminster—Coquitlam New Westminster—Coquitlam is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1988, and since 2004. It is represented by Dawn Black (New Democratic Party) in the 39th Canadian parliament.
New Windsor (CDP), New York New Windsor CDP is a census-designated place located within the town of New Windsor in Orange County, New York. Since New Windsor is a mix of rural and more settled areas, the CDP report provides population and demographics for the more densely populated central settlement.
New Wine New Wine is a Christian conference, which was set up by David Pytches and Barry Kissell in 1989. It is now a thriving conference with events all over the world, and in two locations in the United Kingdom, running for three weeks and attracting over 25,000 delegates.
New Wine into Old Wineskins New Wine into Old Wineskins is a saying of Jesus found in the Gospel of Matthew , Gospel of Mark and Gospel of Luke . The wording is similar in all three gospels except for the additional verses recorded by Luke.
New Wineskins Association of Churches The New Wineskins Association of Churches (NWAC) is comprised of over 120 evangelical churches, currently within the Presbyterian Church (USA). This network of churches was formed as a result of growing discontent among evangelical church pastors, elders, and members regarding the general direction of the PC-USA
New Winston-Salem Ballpark New Winston-Salem Ballpark is a stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, that currently under development. It will be primarily used for baseball, and will be the home field of the Winston-Salem Warthogs minor league baseball team.
New Wittgenstein The New Wittgenstein is a family of interpretations of the work of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. In particular, those associated with this interpretation understand Wittgenstein to have avoided putting forth a "positive" metaphysical program, and understand him to be advocating philosophy as a form of "therapy.
New Works Programme The "New Works Programme, 1935 - 1940" of London Transport was the major investment programme delivered by the London Passenger Transport Board, commonly known as London Transport. The programme was to develop many aspects of the public transport services run by London Transport which had been created in 1933 to coordinate tube, tram, trolleybus and bus services in the capital and the surrounding areas.
New World The New World is one of the names used for the Americas. When the term originated in the late 15th century, the Americas were new to the Europeans, who previously thought of the world as consisting only of Europe, Asia, and Africa—the Old World.
New World Celts The New World Celts is an international charitable organization. It focuses on the advancement and study of the culture of the Seven Celtic Nations of Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, Isle of Man, Brittany & Galicia and how the Celtic people have shaped the history and culture of the four New World Nations, the United States of America, Canada, Australia & New Zealand.
New World Centre The New World Centre (Chinese: 新世界中心) is a shopping centre on Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is located near the Sogo Department Store and the Hong Kong Space Museum, opposite the East Tsim Sha Tsui Station of the KCR East Rail.
New World Communications New World Communications was a major television production company and television station owner in the United States from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. News Corporation became a major investor in 1994 and purchased the company outright in 1997; the alliance with NewsCorp helped to cement the Fox network as the fourth major U.
New World Disorder (Freeride Mountain Biking Movie Series) New World Disorder is the name given to a series of popular freeride mountain-biking movies produced by Freeride Entertainment. The series has created several movies the first of which; New World Disorder I released late 2000 was a great sucess as it proved itself as one of the wildest and most hardcore freeride films out there and then New World Disorder II made a blast even exceeding its predecessor New World Disorder I or just NWD1 for short.
New World Disorder I New World Disorder is the title of the first of the series of New World Disorder Mountain-biking films, released in 2000 the film has been a success and popular enough to allow for six other following releases in the series.
New World Disorder II New World Disorder II - Fat Tire Fury is the title of the second film of the series of New World Disorder Mountain-biking film series, released in 2001, the film was a success and popular enough to allow for a further continuation of the series with many more films to come.
New World Disorder III New World Disorder III - Freewheel Burning is the title of the third film of the series of New World Disorder Mountain-biking film series, the film was released in 2002 and was a success that was popular enough that another film was produced as a result of it.
New World Disorder IV New World Disorder IV - Ride the Lightning is the title of the fourth film in the New World Disorder Mountain-biking film series, the film was released in 2003 and was enough of a success that another film was produced as a result of it.
New World Disorder V New World Disorder V - Disorderly Conduct is the title of the fifth film in the New World Disorder Mountain-biking film series, the film was released in 2004 and was enough of a success that further films were produced as a result of it.
New World Disorder VI New World Disorder VI - Unchained is the title of the sixth film in the New World Disorder Mountain-biking film series, the film was released in 2005 and was enough of a success that a further film was produced as a result of it.
New World First Bus New World First Bus Services Limited (First Bus, or "NWFB") was established in 1998, taking over China Motor Bus's franchise on 1 September 1998 to provide bus services on Hong Kong Island together with Citybus. It is the third largest public bus operator in Hong Kong.
New World First Ferry New World First Ferry Services Limited () (in short New World First Ferry, First Ferry or NWFF) is a ferry company in Hong Kong. The company was established in November 1999, when it took over the 10 routes from the Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry.
New World Information and Communication Order The New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) is a term that was coined in a debate over media representations of the developing world in UNESCO in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The term was widely used by the MacBride Commission, a UNESCO panel chaired by Nobel Prize winner Seán MacBride, which was charged with creation of a set of recommendations to make global media representation more equitable.
New World monkey The New World monkeys are the four families of primates that are found in Central and South America: the Cebidae, Aotidae, Pitheciidae and Atelidae. The four families are ranked together as the Platyrrhini parvorder.
New World oriole The genus Icterus, New World orioles, is a group of birds in the Icteridae family. They are not related to the Old World orioles which are in the family Oriolidae, but are superficially strikingly similar in size, diet, behaviour and their yellow-and-black plumage, a good example of convergent evolution, and almost inevitably took the same vernacular name.
New World Order (computer game) New World Order is an online team-based tactical first-person shooter video game, similar to Counter-Strike. The game was developed by Termite Games, a Swedish game studio and is powered by the DVA graphics engine.
New World Order (Mixtape) DJ Green Lantern is offering us once again an original and heavy mix with more original tracks, remixes and freestyles, featuring the likes of Mobb Deep, Nas, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Eminem, Obie Trice and Busta Rhymes. Best known as Eminem's ex-DJ, Green Lantern always places a tremendous amount of effort into his mixes.
New World Order (professional wrestling) The New World Order (nWo) was a heel stable of wrestlers, originally in World Championship Wrestling and later in the then-World Wrestling Federation. It was first formed on July 7, 1996 at the Bash at the Beach PPV.
New World Order: Opposing Viewpoints The New World Order: Opposing Viewpoints is a book in the Opposing Viewpoints series. It presents selections of contrasting viewpoints on five central questions about the new world order: what it will be; what role the U.
New World porcupine The New World porcupines are large terrestrial rodents, distinguished by their spiny covering from which they take their name. They are all stout animals, with blunt rounded heads, fleshy mobile snouts, and coats of thick cylindrical or flattened spines ("quills").
New World quail The New World quails are small birds only distantly related to the quails of the Old World, but named for their similar appearance and habits. The American species are in their own family Odontophoridae, whereas the Old World birds are in the pheasant family Phasianidae.
New World Religion New World Religion, is the idea of a secular religion, that brings together a common agreed upon world view. This would provide a synthetic foundation upon which more global decision making can occur and some would say a world government would be founded.
New World ROM New World ROM Macintosh computers are the Macintosh models that do not use a Macintosh Toolbox ROM on the motherboard, but instead load the Toolbox ROM from disk storage when needed. All Macs from the iMac forward are New World ROM machines, while all previous models (including all beige and platinum Macs) are Old World ROM machines.
New World School of the Arts New World School of the Arts (abbreviated NWSA) is a well known conservatory with top programs in Visual Arts, Dance, Theatre, Musical Theatre, Instrumental Music, and Vocal Music . The school's main building is located at 25 NE 2nd Street, Miami, FL 33132, and holds other classes on the Miami-Dade College (MDC) Wolfson Campus.
New World Symphony Orchestra The New World Symphony Orchestra is America's only full-time orchestral academy dedicated to preparing gifted graduates from distinguished music conservatories for successful careers in symphony orchestras and ensembles. There are currently more than 600 New World alumni in 167 orchestras in 17 countries.
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (NWT) is a modern-language translation of the Bible published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. and the International Bible Students Association of Brooklyn, New York.
New Worlds (magazine) New Worlds was a British science fiction magazine which was first published professionally in 1946. For 25 years it was widely considered the leading science fiction magazine in Britain, publishing 201 issues up to 1971.
New Worlds (Marvel Comics) New Worlds was the third story arc from Grant Morrison's run on the Marvel Comics title New X-Men, running from issues #127-133. In the aftermath of both the Genoshan genocide and Cassandra Nova's revelation of Charles Xavier's mutant powers, as well as his school's function as a mutant haven, the X-Men must try to broker peace amidst rising human/mutant tensions, while still combating the mutant threats arising worldwide.
New Worlds Imager The New Worlds Discoverer is a project funded by NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC), headed by Dr. Webster Cash of the University of Colorado at Boulder in conjunction with Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
New Worlds Project The New Worlds Project is a creative writing project launched in August 2003 to the public after several years of development.The Project centers on an original science fiction setting that enables the creative writing project and its supporting role-playing game.
New Writers Press New Writers Press is an Irish small press that specialises in poetry publishing. The press was founded in 1967 by the poets Michael Smith and Trevor Joyce and Smith's wife Irene in response to what they felt to be the stagnant state of Irish poetry at the time.
New Yankee Stadium New Yankee Stadium is the working title for a new stadium for the New York Yankees, currently under construction. It is planned to be built on the current site of Macombs Dam Park in the New York City borough of the Bronx, across the street from the current Yankee Stadium, which it will replace.
New Year's Eve 1963 snowstorm The New Year's Eve 1963 snowstorm was a significant winter storm occurring from December 31, 1963 to January 1, 1964 over most of the Southern United States. The storm began when a surface low-pressure system moved northward through the eastern Gulf of Mexico and up the fall line east of the Appalachians, leading to a snowstorm from the central Gulf coast northward into Tennessee.
New Year's resolution A New Year's Resolution is a commitment that an individual makes to a project or a habit, often a lifestyle change that is generally interpreted as advantageous. The name comes from the fact that these commitments normally go into effect on New Year's Day and remain until the set goal has been achieved, although many resolutions go unachieved and are often broken fairly shortly after they are set.
New York - Penn League The New York - Penn League is a minor league baseball league which operates in the northeastern United States. It is classified as a "short-season Class A" league; its season starts in June, after major-league teams have signed their amateur draft picks to professional contracts, and ends in early September.
New York 13th congressional district election, 2006 - Since easily winning a special election in 1997, Republican incumbent Vito Fossella had long been reelected without trouble in this district, based in Staten Island and the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn. But in 2004, his share of the vote dropped dramatically against an underfunded opponent.
New York and Atlantic Railway The New York and Atlantic Railway (NY&A) is a short line railroad formed in 1997 to provide freight service over the tracks of the Long Island Rail Road, a public commuter rail agency which had decided to privatize its freight operations. NY&A operates exclusively on Long Island, New York and is connected to the mainland via the Hell Gate Bridge and a railway ferry (the New York Cross Harbor Railroad) from Brooklyn to New Jersey.
New York and Harlem Railroad The New York and Harlem Railroad (now the Metro-North Railroad Harlem Line) was one of the first railroads in the United States, and possibly the first street railway, running north from Lower Manhattan to and beyond Harlem. The line was later truncated at Grand Central Terminal, with the rest becoming part of the Fourth Avenue Horse Car Line.
New York and Long Branch Railroad The New York and Long Branch Railroad was a railroad in central New Jersey, running from Bay Head Junction in Bay Head to Perth Amboy, where it connected to the Central Railroad of New Jersey's Perth Amboy and Elizabethport Railroad. The railroad was jointly owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Central Railroad of New Jersey.
New York and Manhattan Beach Railway The New York and Manhattan Beach Railway was a narrow gauge excursion railroad constructed in stages in Kings County, New York (now the borough of Brooklyn) in the mid-1870s and completed to Manhattan Beach on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean on Coney Island in the town of Gravesend, in 1878.
New York and New England Railroad The New England Railroad was the final name for a railroad system connecting New York state with Providence, Rhode Island, Boston, Massachusetts and other parts of New England before its 1898 lease by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Earlier names included the New York and New England Railroad and Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad.
New York and New Haven Railroad The New York and New Haven Railroad was a railroad connecting New York City to New Haven, Connecticut along the shore of the Long Island Sound. It opened in 1849, and in 1872 it merged with the Hartford and New Haven Railroad to form the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
New York and New Jersey campaign The New York and New Jersey campaign was a series of engagements in the American Revolutionary War between forces led by General Sir William Howe, the British commander-in-chief, and the army under General George Washington, the American commander-in-chief. Beginning with the landing on Staten Island on July 3, 1776, British forces gained control of New York City and drove the Americans across New Jersey and into Pennsylvania.
New York and Ogdensburg Railway The Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority owns two shortline railroads that are operated by a private contractor d/b/a the New York and Ogdensburg Railway Company . This railroad serves the Port of Ogdensburg and connects with CSX Transportation, thus providing total intermodal service for industries of northern and central New York, as well as eastern Ontario, Canada.
New York and Ottawa Railway The New York and Ottawa Railway was a railroad connecting Tupper Lake in northeastern New York to Ottawa, Ontario, becoming part of the New York Central Railroad system in 1913 although it was under the larger company's possession since the end of 1904. It had started out as the Northern Adirondack Railroad and evolved into the Northern New York Railroad, the New York & Ottawa Railroad and was last known as the New York & Ottawa Railway before being merged into the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad.
New York and Putnam Railroad The New York and Putnam Railroad (nicknamed Old Put) was the final name for a railroad line heading north from New York City, halfway between the Hudson River Railroad and New York and Harlem Railroad. It became part of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad system in 1894, and has since been abandoned.
New York Academy of Art The New York Academy of Art or Graduate School of Figurative Art is the only accredited school of its kind in the world. Blending the traditions of the Italian and French Academies, the Academy focuses on the study of the human figure by rigorously studying anatomy, art history, sculpture, painting, and drawing.
New York Academy of Medicine The New York Academy of Medicine was founded in 1847 by a group of leading New York City metropolitan area physicians as a voice for the medical profession in medical practice and public health reform. The Academy quickly established the Metropolitan Board of Health, the first modern municipal public health authority in the United States.
New York Academy of Sciences The New York Academy of Sciences is a society of some 20,000 scientists of all disciplines from 150 countries. It aims "to advance the understanding of science, technology, and medicine, and to stimulate new ways to think about how their research is applied in society and the world".
New York Agreement The New York Agreement is a document brokered by the United States on behalf of the Indonesian government in 1962 to transfer sovereignty of Western New Guinea from the Netherlands to Indonesia. The document was orchestrated by the USA in secret and without consent of the peoples of western New Guinea, after the Indonesian invasion commenced in December 1961.
New York Air Brake New York Air Brake Corporation, located in Watertown, New York, has served railroad customers for over 100 years, supplying innovative air brake and train control systems to the AAR railroad industry worldwide.
New York Air Show The New York Air Show at Jones Beach is held each Memorial Day Weekend at the Jones Beach State Park, located on Long Island in Wantagh, New York. The air show is one of the largest in the United States, hosting 403,000 people over two-days during the 2006 air show.
New York Airways New York Airways was an airline that offered scheduled helicopter service from atop the Pan Am Building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City to other airports in the area. Founded in 1949 as a mail and cargo carrier, it commenced passenger operations on July 9, 1953, becoming the first scheduled helicopter carrier in the United States and the first passenger helicopter carrier in the world.
New York Aquarium The New York Aquarium first opened on December 10, 1896, at Castle Garden in Battery Park, making it the oldest continually operating aquarium in the United States. Its first director was the respected fish expert, Dr.
New York Area Bisexual Network New York Area Bisexual Network (NYABN) is a central communications network for Bisexual & bi-friendly groups and resources in the five boroughs (Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island) of New York City and the surrounding Tri-State area.
New York Art Quartet The New York Art Quartet was a free jazz ensemble made up of saxophonist John Tchicai, trombonist Roswell Rudd, drummer Milford Graves and bassist Lewis Worrell. They formed in 1964 and were one of the first groups to record for the ESP Disk record label : ESP-1004 - New York Art Quartet & Imamu Amiri Baraka (aka LeRoi Jones), with recitation of the poem "Black Dada Nihilismus".
New York Asian Film Festival The New York Asian Film Festival was first held in 2002, growing out of the New York Korean Film Festival that was held in 2001. Programmed and operated by Subway Cinema, the festival generally features contemporary and classic titles from Eastern Asia and Southeast Asia, including Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong and Thailand, though Vietnamese and Indian films have been screened in recent years.
New York blues The New York blues is a type of blues music, characterized by significant jazz influences and a more modernized, urban feel than the country blues. It arose in New York City in the early part of the 20th century, and quickly spread to other urban areas and, often, more affluent listeners than country blues, which is distinctively rural in nature.
New York Bank of the United States The New York Bank of the United States was a bank in the Bronx, New York City, whose collapse is considered to be the first of many during the Great Depression. Despite its small size, it had hundreds of thousands of depositors, and the effects of its collapse made it important in US financial history.
New York Bay New York Bay is the collective term for the marine areas surrounding the entrance of the Hudson River into the Atlantic Ocean. Its two largest components are Upper New York Bay and Lower New York Bay, which are connected by the Narrows.
New York Bight The New York Bight is a large gulf on the Atlantic Ocean along the coast of North America in the northeastern United States. It is formed by the coastal identation between the New Jersey and Long Island around the mouth of the Hudson River at New York Harbor.
New York Blood Center New York Blood Center bills itself as the "nation's largest, community-based, non-profit, independent blood center." Founded in 1964, it relies upon a staff of 2,000 volunteers and a much smaller permanent staff in order to supply over 200 hospitals in New York and New Jersey with a source of whole blood, platelets and hemoglobin.
New York Botanical Garden The New York Botanical Garden is a prestigious botanical garden in New York City. One of the premier botanical gardens in the United States, it spans some 240 acres of Bronx Park in the borough of The Bronx and is home to some of the world's leading plant laboratories.
New York British Volunteers The New York British Volunteers was a short-lived regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The unit began recruiting in New York, New York shortly after the outbreak of war, and managed to draw several hundred recuits.
New York class battleship The New York class battleship was a series of two battleships of the United States Navy which served during World War I and World War II. There were two ships in this class: the USS New York and the USS Texas.
New York Catholic High School Athletic Association The New York Catholic High School Athletic Association consists of 37 teams located in Westchester County, the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island. The NYCHSAA is divided into three sections:
New York Central Lines LLC New York Central Lines LLC is a limited liability company that owns railroad lines in the United States that are operated by CSX Transportation. The company was formed in 1998 to own Conrail lines assigned to CSX in the split of Conrail between CSX and the Norfolk Southern Railway; operations were switched over on June 1, 1999.
New York Central Railroad The New York Central Railroad , known simply as the New York Central in its publicity, was a railroad operating in the Northeastern United States. Headquartered in New York, the railroad served most of the Northeast, including extensive trackage in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Massachusetts and much of New England and in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Québec.
New York City Audubon New York City Audubon is an American non-profit environmental organization incorporated in 1979. The group’s mission reads in part: “New York City Audubon is a grassroots community that works for the protection of wild birds and habitat in the five boroughs, improving the quality of life for all New Yorkers.
New York City Ballet New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein with musical director Leon Barzin. The company grew from an earlier troupe known as the Ballet Society.
New York City Board of Estimate The New York City Board of Estimate was a governmental body in New York City, responsible for budget and land-use decisions. Under the charter of the newly amalgamated City of Greater New York (Passed 1897, effective 1898) the Board of Estimate and Apportionment was composed of eight ex officio members: the Mayor of New York City, the New York City Comptroller and the President of the Board of Aldermen, each of whom was elected citywide and had two votes, and the five Borough presidents, each having one vote.
New York City Cabaret Card From Prohibition until 1960, the New York City Cabaret Identification Card was a required permit to be held by all workers in New York City nightclubs. Their administration was fraught with politics, and some performers' cards were revoked on specious grounds.
New York City Civil Court The New York City Civil Court is a court hearing civil cases within New York City. The court's jurisdiction includes civil actions for damages arising within the five counties of New York City involving claims of up to $25,000, as well as residential and commercial landlord-tenant disputes.
New York City Comptroller The Office of Comptroller of New York City is the chief fiscal officer and chief auditing officer of the city. The comptroller is elected, citywide, to a four-year term and can hold office for two consecutive terms.
New York City Department of Education The New York City Department of Education is the branch of municipal government in New York City that manages the city's public school system. The school district these schools form is the largest district in the United States.
New York City Department of Environmental Protection The New York City Department of Environmental Protection is responsible for managing the natural resources and environment of New York City. The Department is responsible for managing the water supply and the quality of drinking water, wastewater treatment and air, noise and hazardous materials.
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation The City of New York Department of Parks & Recreation is the branch of government of the City of New York responsible for maintaining the city's parks system, preserving and maintaining the ecological diversity of the city's natural areas, and furnishing recreational opportunities for city's residents.
New York City Department of Transportation The New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT or DOT) is responsible for the management of much of New York City's transportation infrastructure. Iris Weinshall is the current Commissioner of the Department of Transportation, and was appointed by then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani on September 8, 2000.
New York City Farm Colony The New York City Farm Colony was a poorhouse on the New York City borough of Staten Island, one of the city's five boroughs. It was located across Brielle Avenue from Sea View Hospital, on the edge of the Staten Island Greenbelt.
New York City Fire Department The New York City Fire Department or the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) has the responsibility for protecting the citizens and property of New York City's five boroughs from fires and fire hazards, providing emergency medical services, technical rescue as well as providing first response to biological, chemical and radioactive hazards.
New York City Housing Authority The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) provides housing for low and moderate income residents throughout the five boroughs of New York City. NYCHA also administers a citywide Section 8 Leased Housing Program in rental apartments.
New York City in the Civil War New York City during the American Civil War (1861–1865) was a bustling city that provided a major source of troops, supplies, and equipment for the Union Army. Powerful New York politicians and newspaper editors helped shape public opinion towards the war effort and the policies of President of the United States Abraham Lincoln.
New York City mayoral election, 2005 The New York City mayoral election of 2005 occurred on Tuesday November 8, 2005, with incumbent Republican mayor Michael Bloomberg defeating former Bronx borough president Fernando Ferrer, the Democratic nominee. They also faced several third party candidates.
New York City mayoral election, 2009 The New York City mayoral election of 2009 is scheduled to occur in November. Current Mayor Republican Michael Bloomberg is barred from running again due to term-limits, so this election will feature no incumbent.
New York City Police Department The New York City Police Department is the largest police department in the United States, the largest municipal police force in the world, and has the primary responsibility for law enforcement and investigation within the five boroughs of New York City. When created in 1845, it was modeled after London's Metropolitan Police.

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