New York City Council

The New York City Council is the lawmaking body of the City of New York. It has 51 members from 51 council districts throughout the five boroughs.

New York City Council
Type
Type	Unicameral
Leadership
Speaker	Corey Johnson, Democratic since January 2018
Majority Leader	Laurie Cumbo, Democratic since January 2018
Minority Leader	Steven Matteo, Republican since July 2015
Structure
Seats	51
Political groups	Majority   Democratic (47) Minority   Republican (3) Vacant   Vacant (1)
Committees	See Standing Committees
Elections
Voting system	First-past-the-post; Ranked-choice voting (primaries and special elections beginning 2021)
Last election	November 7, 2017
Next election	November 2, 2021
Meeting place
New York City Hall, Manhattan
Website
www.council.nyc.gov

The council serves as a check against the mayor in a mayor-council government model. The council monitors the performance of city agencies and makes land use decisions as well as legislating on a variety of other issues. The city council also has sole responsibility for approving the city budget. Members elected in or after the year 2010 are limited to two consecutive terms in office, but may run again after a four-year respite; however, members elected prior to 2010 may seek third consecutive terms.

The head of the city council is called the Speaker. The current Speaker is Corey Johnson, a Democrat. The Speaker sets the agenda and presides at meetings of the city council. Proposed legislation is submitted through the Speaker's Office. There are 48 Democratic council members led by Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo. The three Republican council members are led by Minority Leader Steven Matteo.

The council has 35 committees with oversight of various functions of the city government. Each council member sits on at least three standing, select or subcommittees (listed below). The standing committees meet at least once per month. The Speaker of the council, the majority leader, and the minority leader are all ex officio members of every committee.

Council members are elected every four years, except for two consecutive two-year terms every twenty years to allow for redistricting between the terms due to the national census (starting in 2001 and 2003 for the 2000 Census and again in 2021 and 2023 for the 2020 Census).[1]

Composition

District	Member	Party	Residence	Borough	Elected	Term limited
1/1	Margaret Chin	Democratic	Financial District	Manhattan	2009	2021
2/2	Carlina Rivera	Democratic	Lower East Side	Manhattan	2017	2025
3/3	Corey Johnson	Democratic	Chelsea	Manhattan	2013	2021
4/4	Keith Powers	Democratic	Murray Hill	Manhattan	2017	2025
5	Ben Kallos	Democratic	Upper East Side	Manhattan	2013	2021
6	Helen Rosenthal	Democratic	Upper West Side	Manhattan	2013	2021
7	Mark D. Levine	Democratic	Washington Heights	Manhattan	2013	2021
8	Diana Ayala	Democratic	East Harlem	The Bronx, Manhattan	2017	2025
9	Bill Perkins	Democratic	Central Harlem	Manhattan	2017*	2025
10	Ydanis Rodríguez	Democratic	Inwood	Manhattan	2009	2021
11	Andrew Cohen	Democratic	Riverdale	The Bronx	2013	2021
12	Andy King	Democratic	Wakefield	The Bronx	2012*	2021
13	Mark Gjonaj	Democratic	Eastchester	The Bronx	2017	2025
14	Fernando Cabrera	Democratic	Kingsbridge	The Bronx	2009	2021
15	Ritchie Torres	Democratic	Bronx Park	The Bronx	2013	2021
16	Vanessa Gibson	Democratic	Morris Heights	The Bronx	2013	2021
17	Rafael Salamanca	Democratic	Longwood	The Bronx	2016*	2025
18	Rubén Díaz Sr.	Democratic	Parkchester	The Bronx	2017	2025
19	Paul Vallone	Democratic	Bayside	Queens	2013	2021
20	Peter Koo	Democratic	Flushing	Queens	2009	2021
21	Francisco Moya	Democratic	Corona	Queens	2017	2025
22	Costa Constantinides	Democratic	Astoria	Queens	2013	2021
23	Barry Grodenchik	Democratic	Hollis Hills	Queens	2015*	2025
24	Rory Lancman	Democratic	Fresh Meadows	Queens	2013	2021
25	Danny Dromm	Democratic	Jackson Heights	Queens	2009	2021
26	Jimmy Van Bramer	Democratic	Sunnyside Gardens	Queens	2009	2021
27	Daneek Miller	Democratic	Queens Village	Queens	2013	2021
28	Adrienne Adams	Democratic	Jamaica	Queens	2017*	2025
29	Karen Koslowitz	Democratic	Forest Hills	Queens	2009	2021
30	Robert Holden	Democratic[lower-alpha 1]	Middle Village	Queens	2017	2025
31	Donovan Richards	Democratic	Far Rockaway	Queens	2013*	2021
32	Eric Ulrich	Republican	Ozone Park	Queens	2009*	2021
33	Stephen Levin	Democratic	Greenpoint	Brooklyn	2009	2021
34	Antonio Reynoso	Democratic	Williamsburg	Brooklyn, Queens	2013	2021
35	Laurie Cumbo	Democratic	Clinton Hill	Brooklyn	2013	2021
36	Robert Cornegy	Democratic	Bedford Stuyvesant	Brooklyn	2013	2021
37	Vacant			Brooklyn
38	Carlos Menchaca	Democratic	Red Hook	Brooklyn	2013	2021
39	Brad Lander	Democratic	Park Slope	Brooklyn	2009	2021
40	Mathieu Eugene	Democratic	Flatbush	Brooklyn	2007*	2021
41	Alicka Ampry-Samuel	Democratic	Brownsville	Brooklyn	2017	2025
42	Inez Barron	Democratic	East New York	Brooklyn	2013	2021
43	Justin Brannan	Democratic	Bay Ridge	Brooklyn	2017	2025
44	Kalman Yeger	Democratic	Borough Park	Brooklyn	2017	2025
45	Farah Louis	Democratic	Flatbush	Brooklyn	2019*	2029
46	Alan Maisel	Democratic	Canarsie	Brooklyn	2013	2021
47	Mark Treyger	Democratic	Bensonhurst	Brooklyn	2013	2021
48	Chaim Deutsch	Democratic	Midwood	Brooklyn	2013	2021
49	Debi Rose	Democratic	Mariners Harbor	Staten Island	2009	2021
50	Steven Matteo	Republican	Westerleigh	Staten Island	2013	2021
51	Joseph Borelli	Republican	Annadale	Staten Island	2015*	2025

(An asterisk (*) next to the election year denotes a special election.)

Members

Borough	Population (2017 est)[2]	Total	Democratic	Republican
Brooklyn	2,648,771	16	16	0
Queens	2,358,582	14	13	1
Manhattan	1,664,727	10	10	0
The Bronx	1,471,160	8	8	0
Staten Island	479,458	3	1	2
Total	8,008,278	51	48	3

1. Councilman Holden was elected in 2017 on the Republican Party line, but is a registered Democrat.

Council leaders

Position	Name	Party	Borough
Speaker	Corey Johnson	Democratic	Manhattan
Majority Leader	Laurie Cumbo	Democratic	Brooklyn
Minority Leader	Steven Matteo	Republican	Staten Island

Salary

Council Members currently receive $148,500 a year in base salary, which the council increased from $112,500 in early 2016.[3] Members receive no additional compensation for serving as a committee chairperson or other officer under the new salary raise.

Law

The New York City Charter is the fundamental law of the government of New York City including the council. The New York City Administrative Code is the codification of the laws promulgated by the council and is composed of 29 titles.[4][5] The regulations promulgated by city agencies pursuant to law are contained in the Rules of the City of New York in 71 titles.[6]

A local law has a status equivalent with a law enacted by the legislature (subject to certain exceptions and restrictions), and is superior to the older forms of municipal legislation such as ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations.[7] Each local government must designate a newspaper of notice to publish or describe its laws.[8] The secretary of state is responsible for publishing local laws as a supplement to the Laws of New York (the "session laws" of the state), but they have not done so in recent years.[8] The New York City Charter, the New York City Administrative Code, and the Rules of the City of New York are published online by the New York Legal Publishing Corp. under contract with the New York City Law Department.[9]

History

The history of the New York City Council can be traced to Dutch Colonial times when New York City was known as New Amsterdam. On February 2, 1653, the town of New Amsterdam, founded on the southern tip of Manhattan Island in 1625, was incorporated as a city under a charter issued by the Dutch West India Company. A Council of Legislators sat as the local lawmaking body and as a court of inferior jurisdiction. During the 18th and 19th centuries the local legislature was called the Common Council and then the Board of Aldermen. In 1898 the amalgamation charter of the City of Greater New York renamed and revamped the council and added a New York City Board of Estimate with certain administrative and financial powers. After a number of changes through the ensuing years, the present Council was born in 1938 under a new charter which instituted the council as the sole legislative body and the New York City Board of Estimate as the chief administrative body. Certain functions of the council, however, remained subject to the approval of the board.

A system of proportional representation known as Single Transferable Vote seated a 26-member Council in 1938 to serve two-year terms. The term was extended to four years in 1945 to coincide with the term of the mayor. Proportional representation was abolished in 1947, largely from pressure from Democrats, who played on fears of Communist council members being elected (two already had).[10] It was replaced by a system of electing one Council Member from each New York State Senate district within the city. The Charter also provided for the election of two Council Members-at-large from each of the five boroughs. In June 1983, however, a federal court ruled that the 10 at-large seats violated the United States Constitution's one-person, one-vote mandate.[11]

In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that the Board of Estimate also violated the one-person, one-vote mandate. In response, the new Charter abolished the Board of Estimate and provided for the redrawing of the council district lines to increase minority representation on the council. It also increased the number of Council Members from 35 to 51. The council was then granted full power over the municipal budget, as well as authority over zoning, land use and franchises. In 1993 the New York City Council voted to rename the position of president of the city council to the Public Advocate. As the presiding officer, the Public Advocate was an ex officio member of all committees in the council, and in that capacity had the right to introduce and co-sponsor legislation.[12] However the city charter revision of 2002 transferred the duties of presiding officer from the Public Advocate to the Council Speaker; the Public Advocate remains a non-voting member of the council.[13]

Term limits

A two-term limit was imposed on city council members and citywide elected officials in a 1993 referendum. The movement to introduce term limits was led by Ronald Lauder, a cosmetics heir. In 1996, voters turned down a council proposal to extend term limits. Lauder spent $4 million on the two referenda.

However, in 2008, under pressure from Mayor Michael Bloomberg (who, like many Council members, was facing the end of his two-term limit at that time), the council voted 29–22 to extend the limit to three terms; the council also defeated (by a vote of 22–28, with one abstention) a proposal to submit the issue to public referendum.[14]

Legal challenges to the extension of term limits failed in federal court. The original decision by Judge Charles Sifton of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Long Island, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island) was upheld by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (Vermont, Connecticut and New York), and a proposal in the New York State Legislature to override the extension was not passed.[15][16][17]

Voters voted to reinstate the two-term limit law in another referendum in 2010.[18] However, according to The New York Times, incumbent members of the city council who were elected prior to the 2010 referendum “will still be allowed to run for a third term. People in office before 2010 were eligible for three terms.”[19]

Membership milestones

• First female member: Genevieve B. Earle (elected 1937 via proportional representation)
• First African-American male member: Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (elected 1939 via proportional representation)
• First African-American female member: Mary Pinkett (elected 1974)
• First Puerto Rican female member: Nydia Velázquez (elected 1984)
• First openly gay male members: Thomas Duane and Antonio Pagán (both elected 1991)
• First Asian-American member: John Liu (elected 2001)
• First Muslim elected member: Robert Jackson (elected 2002)
• First female speaker: Christine Quinn (elected Speaker 2005)
• First openly gay speaker: Christine Quinn (elected Speaker 2005)
• First Asian-American Republican elected member: Peter Koo (elected 2009; switched party affiliation to Democratic in 2012)
• Youngest elected member: Ritchie Torres, age 24 (elected 2013)
• First Mexican-American elected member: Carlos Menchaca (elected 2013)
• First Latina speaker: Melissa Mark-Viverito (elected Speaker 2014)
• First openly gay male speaker: Corey Johnson (elected Speaker 2017)

Presiding officers since 1898

Through several changes in title and duties, this person has been, together with the Mayor and City Comptroller, one of the three municipal officers directly elected by all of the city's voters, and also the person who—when the elected mayor resigns, dies, or otherwise loses the ability to serve—becomes acting mayor until the next special or regular election.[20]

Until 1989, these three officers, together with the five borough presidents, constituted the New York City Board of Estimate. Political campaigns have traditionally tried to balance their candidates for these three offices to appeal as wide a range of the city's political, geographical, social, ethnic and religious constituencies as possible (and, when possible, to both genders).

Name Start and end dates as Presiding Officer Party Reason for end of term As president of the board of aldermen Randolph Guggenheimer[21] January 1, 1898[22][23] – December 31, 1901 Democratic Did not seek re-election[24] Charles V. Fornes[25] January 1, 1902[26] – December 31, 1903 Fusion (first term) Elected to two two-year terms[25] January 1, 1904 – December 27, 1905 Democratic (second term) Did not seek re-election Patrick F. McGowan[27] December 27, 1905[28] – December 31, 1909 Democratic Did not seek re-election, appointed to several Board of Education committees[29] John Purroy Mitchel[30] ^b, c January 1, 1910[31] – June 7, 1913[32] Fusion Resigned to become Collector of the Port of New York Ardolph L. Kline[33] ^a, d June 9, 1913[34] – December 31, 1913 Republican Re-elected to aldermanic seat but did not seek re-election as aldermanic president[35] George McAneny[36] January 1, 1914[37] – February 1, 1916[38] Fusion, Democratic Resigned to join the management of The New York Times[39] Frank L. Dowling[40] February 1, 1916[38][41] – December 31, 1917 Democratic Became Manhattan Borough President[42] Alfred E. Smith[43] January 1, 1918[44] – December 31, 1918 Democratic Became Governor of New York[45] Robert L. Moran[46] January 1, 1919[45] – December 31, 1919 Democratic Lost re-election to La Guardia[47] Fiorello H. La Guardia[48] ^b, c January 1, 1920[49] – December 31, 1921 Republican Unsuccessful run for mayor, lost in the primary[50] Murray Hulbert[51] January 2, 1922[52] – January 8, 1925[53] Democratic Ousted by court decision after accepting honorary position on the Finger Lakes Park Commission[53] William T. Collins[54] January 8, 1925[53] – December 30, 1925[55] Democratic Became acting mayor for one day, then became New York County Clerk[55] Joseph V. McKee[56] ^a, c January 1, 1926[57] – May 15, 1933[58] Democratic Resigned to become president of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company[58] Dennis J. Mahon[59] (acting) May 16, 1933[60] – December 31, 1933[61] Democratic Lost re-election to Republican-Fusion candidate Morton Baum[62] Bernard S. Deutsch[63] January 1, 1934[64] – November 21, 1935[63] Republican, Fusion, Law Preservation[65] Died while in office[63] Timothy J. Sullivan[66] November 22, 1935[63] – December 31, 1936 Democratic Re-elected to aldermanic seat but did not seek re-election as aldermanic president William F. Brunner[67] January 1, 1937[68] – December 31, 1937 Democratic Unsuccessful run for Queens Borough President[69] As president of the city council Newbold Morris[70] ^c December 31, 1937[71] – January 1, 1946 Republican Unsuccessful run for mayor, lost in general election to William F. O'Dwyer[72] Vincent Impellitteri[73] ^a, b January 1, 1946[74] – August 31, 1950 Democratic Became Mayor upon O'Dwyer's resignation Joseph T. Sharkey[75] (acting) September 2, 1950[76] – November 14, 1951 Democratic Acting president until Election Day results were certified[77] Rudolph Halley[78] ^c November 14, 1951[77] – December 31, 1953 Liberal, Fusion, Independent Citizens Unsuccessful run for mayor, lost in general election to Robert F. Wagner Jr.[79] Abe Stark[80] January 1, 1954[81] – December 31, 1961 Democratic Became Brooklyn Borough President[82] Paul R. Screvane[83] January 1, 1962[84] – December 31, 1965 Democratic, Liberal, Brotherhood[85] Unsuccessful run for mayor, lost in the primary to Abraham D. Beame[86] Frank D. O'Connor[87] January 1, 1966[88] – January 3, 1969[89] Democratic Resigned to become a New York Supreme Court justice Francis X. Smith January 8, 1969[90] – December 31, 1969 Democratic Ran for re-election, lost to Garelik[91] Sanford Garelik[92] January 1, 1970[93] – December 31, 1973 Republican, Liberal Ran for re-election as a Democrat, lost in primary to O'Dwyer[94][95] Paul O'Dwyer[96] January 1, 1974[97] – December 31, 1977 Democratic Ran for re-election, won Democratic primary,[98] then lost the run-off to Bellamy[99] Carol Bellamy ^c January 1, 1978[100] – December 31, 1985 Democratic Unsuccessful run for mayor, lost to Edward I. Koch[101] Andrew Stein January 1, 1986[102] – December 31, 1993 Democratic, Liberal Ran for mayor and then Public Advocate, dropped out of both races[103] As Public Advocate Mark Green ^c January 2, 1994[104] – December 31, 2001 Democratic Ran for mayor, lost general election to Michael R. Bloomberg[105] As Speaker of the city council Gifford Miller January 9, 2002[106] – December 31, 2005 Democratic Term limits,[107] ran for mayor and lost in the primary[108] Christine Quinn January 4, 2006[109] – December 31, 2013 Democratic Term limits, ran for mayor and lost in the primary[110] Melissa Mark-Viverito January 8, 2014[111] – December 31, 2017 Democratic Term limits Corey Johnson January 3, 2018 – present Democratic Incumbent Notes a. Became acting mayor upon the death or resignation of the elected mayor. b. Later won election as mayor. c. Unsuccessful candidate for mayor in a subsequent general election. d. 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