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Borough President is an elective office in each of the five boroughs of New York City.
The offices of borough president were created in 1898 with the formation of the City of Greater New York. Prior to 1898, the city was conterminous with New York County. In 1898, Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens (Queens County) and Staten Island (Richmond County) were added to a city that had consisted exclusively of what is now Manhattan and the Bronx. To balance local authority along with the centralization of government, the Office of Borough President was established with a functional administrative role derived by having a vote on the New York City Board of Estimate, which was responsible for creating and approving the city's budget and proposals for land use. The Board of Estimate consisted of the Mayor, the Comptroller and the President of the New York City Council, each of whom were elected citywide and had two votes, and the five Borough presidents, each having one vote.
In 1989, the
Supreme Court of the United States, in
Board of Estimate of City of New York v. Morris declared the New York City Board of Estimate
unconstitutional on the grounds that the city's most populous borough (
Brooklyn) had no greater effective representation on the board than the city's least populous borough (
Staten Island), this arrangement being an unconstitutional violation of the
Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause pursuant to the high court's 1964 "one man, one vote" decision (
Reynolds v. Sims).
[1].
The city charter was revised in 1990 and the Board of Estimate was abolished. The Office of Borough President was retained but with greatly reduced power and budget which reverted to the mayor or the New York City Council. Post-1990, Borough Presidents have generally acted as advocates of their boroughs at the mayoral agencies, the city council, the New York state government, and corporations.
As of 2006, the borough presidents are:
Contents
- 1 List of Bronx Borough Presidents
- 2 List of Brooklyn Borough Presidents
- 3 List of Manhattan Borough Presidents
- 4 List of Queens Borough Presidents
- 5 List of Richmond/Staten Island Borough Presidents
- 6 See also
- 7 References
- 8 External link
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List of Bronx Borough Presidents
List of Brooklyn Borough Presidents
List of Manhattan Borough Presidents
List of Queens Borough Presidents
List of Richmond/Staten Island Borough Presidents
See also
References
- ^ Cornell Law School Supreme Court Collection: Board of Estimate of City of New York v. Morris, accessed June 12, 2006
External link
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