List of mayors of New York City - Wikipedia
Eric Adams is the first sitting mayor of New York City to ever face indictment; he faces two charges of solicitation of a contribution from a foreign national, as well as charges of wire fraud, conspiracy, and bribery.
Mayors of the City of New York - NYC.gov
Elected Mayor Nov. 7, 1950.
List of New York City Mayors - WikiTree
Here is a list of the mayors of New York City. During the period of governance by the Dutch West India Company, New Amsterdam had Director-Generals. In 1665 Thomas Willett became the first person to have the title of mayor.
Mayor of New York City - Wikipedia
The current mayor is Eric Adams, who was elected on November 2, 2021, and took office shortly after midnight on January 1, 2022. In 1665, Governor Richard Nicolls appointed Thomas Willett as the first mayor of New York. For 156 years, the mayor was appointed and had limited power.
Thomas Willett - Wikipedia
Thomas Willett (c. 1607 – August 29, 1674) was a Plymouth Colony fur trader, merchant, land purchaser and developer, Captain of the Plymouth Colony militia, Magistrate of the colony, and was the 1st and 3rd Mayor of New York, prior to the consolidation of the five boroughs into the City of New York in 1898.
Thomas Willett: The Story of New York’s First Mayor
Jun 6, 2023 · Willett served two terms as mayor of New York. He was the first and 3rd mayor of this city. The first term on this post lasted from 1665 to 1666, and the second was in the period from 1667 to 1668.
Thomas Willett - Historical Society of the New York Courts
As mayor, Willett was chief magistrate of the Mayor’s Court and presided over the first jury trial in the New York colony. In 1677, Willett again served as Mayor and was a member of Governor Francis Lovelace’s Council, 1668-1673.
New York City’s Earliest Mayors - NYC Department of Records ...
Nov 20, 2020 · New York City has a mayor-centric form of government. But it did not start out that way. In 1665, shortly after the English assumed control of the colony from the Dutch, governor Richard Nicolls appointed Thomas Willett as the first New York City mayor.
Harlem's Robert Anderson Van Wyck, The First Mayor Of NYC, …
Dec 4, 2022 · Robert Anderson Van Wyck, July 20, 1849 – November 14, 1918, of Harlem the first mayor of New York City. After the consolidation of the five boroughs into the City of Greater New York in 1898. Early life and education
Thomas Willett makes his first appearance on the historic stage in the narrative of Governor William Bradford, of Plymouth, in the year 1629. He was then about nineteen years old. The Plymouth colonists had joined. the Indians along the coast of Maine, at …