Bloomberg Organization

Introduction

The New York City mayoralty has played a central role in several films and television series. Spin City (1996-2002), set in City Hall, starred Michael J. Fox as a Deputy Mayor making efforts to stop the dim-witted Mayor from embarrassing himself in front of the media and voters. City Hall (1996) starred Al Pacino as an idealistic Mayor and John Cusack as his Deputy Mayor, who leads an investigation with unexpectedly far-reaching consequences into the accidental shooting of a boy in New York. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) features Lee Wallace as an indecisive, flu-struck mayor who is bullied by his deputy and booed by the citizenry. The comic-book series Ex Machina posits an alternate history in which the 2001 election is won by the independent Mitchell Hundred, a former superhero called the Great Machine who sweeps to victory after saving the second tower of the World Trade Center on September 11.

Local tabloid newspapers often refer to the mayor as "Hizzoner," a corruption of the title "His Honor". In the 1990s, Mayor Rudy Giuliani appeared on Saturday Night Live on several occasions, sometimes mocking himself in a sketch. Giuliani and Bloomberg have both appeared, as themselves in their mayoral capacities, on episodes of Law & Order. Giuliani has made cameos in films such as The Out-of-Towners and Anger Management. Mayor Bloomberg has appeared on 30 Rock.

Bloomberg Organization and its Hierarchy Chart

Founder(s): Mayor Michael Bloomberg

Key people: Peter Grauer, Chairman

Dan Doctoroff, President

Thomas Secunda, CTO

Matthew Winkler, Editor in Chief, News

The Mayor of the City of New York is head of the executive branch of New York City's government. The Mayor's office administers all city services, public property, police and fire protection, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within New York City.

The budget overseen by the Mayor's office is the largest municipal budget in the United States at $50 billion a year.[1] The city employs 250,000 people, spends about $15 billion to educate more than 1.1 million students, levies $27 billion in taxes, and receives $14 billion from the state and federal governments.

The Mayor's office is located in New York City Hall; it has jurisdiction over all five boroughs of New York City: Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island. The Mayor appoints a large number of officials, including commissioners who head city departments, and his or her deputy mayors. According to current law, the Mayor is limited to three consecutive four-year terms in office, which was previously limited to two terms. It was changed from two to three terms on October 23, 2008 when the New York City Council voted 29-22 in favor of passing the term limit extension into law.[2]

The current mayor is Michael Bloomberg, elected as a Republican in 2001 and re-elected in 2005 with 59% of the vote. He is known for taking control of the city's education system from the state, rezoning and economic development, sound fiscal management, and aggressive public health policy. In his second term he ...