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The corporate history of the "Great Mistake of '98" as some conservatives called it, isn't a huge topic of New York City history, but it has its appropriate place in this little article. Whether the Dinkins/Giuliani election should be covered here or in articles about the protagonists or about Staten Island, that's another question. Anyway I'll add a little material about the State constitutional implications of amalgamation, and a link to a corporate governance issue. Jim.henderson 15:19, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
This article is only five paragraphs long, and about half of it is about the attempt on the part of Staten Island to secceed. Shouldn't that be in its own article? -- Jfruh ( talk) 22:03, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
This sentence:
The phrase City of Greater New York was never a legal or official designation as both the original charter of 1898 and the newer one of 1938 use the name of City of New York (link).
Links to a message board post for support. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.178.92.119 ( talk) 21:53, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Related to the above post, as "The phrase City of Greater New York was never a legal or official designation" shouldn't this redirect to City of New York? 122.167.94.164 ( talk) 08:31, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
The article on Yonkers says that that city declined to take part in the consolidation. Is there a reason? Were there other municipalities, villages, or townships that were asked to be part of Greater New York, but declined?
-- Wechselstrom ( talk) 18:27, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
On November 6, 1894, the citizens of the proposed metropolis voted to voice their opinion on consolidation.
District For Against
New York County 96,938 59, 959
Kings County 64, 744 64, 467** **Numbers include towns annexed at the end of 1894 - without these towns Brooklyn proper voted against consolidation by 1,034 votes.
portion of Queens County 7,712 4,741
Richmond County 5,531 1,505
Town of Westchester 374 206
portion of Town of Eastchester 620 621
portion of Town of Pelham 251 153
Total 176,170 131,706
NOTES: The only places where a majority was anti-consolidation was in Flushing and the Town of Eastchester.
The Town of Mount Vernon also participated in the referendum at the request of its citizens. However, neither Green nor the Greater New York Commission ever sought to include it. The town voted against the measure -873 to 1603 -- JimWae ( talk) 19:29, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
It has been suggested that this section be
split out into another page titled
Secession in New York#Staten Island secession. (
Discuss) |
I propose that the Staten Island secession section be split to the Secession in New York article, as that article already covers the proposed creation of a new county, and this is just the creation of a new city, a similar state of affairs. 64.229.103.105 ( talk) 12:56, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
The article says that the New York City and Brooklyn FDs were merged prior to 1898-01-01. I can't seem to find anything that corroborates that, e.g. http://nyfd.com/brooklyn_bfd/bfd_history.html. Anyone have anything? -- plaws ( talk) 22:27, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
It would be nice to get details and a citation for this. When was the constitution amended, and what is the caption and year of the U.S. Supreme Court case referred to?