New york city department of cultural affairs the new york city department of cultural affairs (dcla) is the largest municipal funder of culture in the country and is committed to providing access to art รขโ‚ฌยฆ In 1937, new york city began to elect its city council through single transferable voting. Unusually the variety of stv it adopted used the uniform quota where anyone who received 75,000 votes was รขโ‚ฌยฆ

A permanent european presence near new york harbor was established in 1624, making new york the 12th-oldest continuously occupied european-established settlement in the continental united states, รขโ‚ฌยฆ