 Fares, cards, transfers (subway, bus, and MetroNorth)
On May 8, 9:23 am, ste...@panix.com (Steven M. O'Neill) wrote:
> JohnAnon <JohnA...@nyc.> wrote:
> >On May 6, 3:34 pm, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>
> >> But doesn't the five counties that make up New York City have separate
> >> courts, D.A.s, etc.?
>
> >For the civil courts at least, it's by "Department."
>
> >New York County (Manhattan) and Da Bronecks are the First Department.
> >Westchester is the Ninth Department, I think. As you go upstate the
> >number of counties in each Department increases. The rulings in the
> >Supreme Court (as Phil said it's a district-level trial court in NYS)
> >of the First Department are considered more ugh gilded with
> >competency, but just informally.
>
> I just got called for the U.S. District Court. This was in
> Downtown Brooklyn, reasonably convenient to my home. However,
> when I got there I was told that the available pool was from
> S.I., Brooklyn, Queens, and Nassau and Suffolk counties.
>
> For someone living in, say Montauk at the eastern end of Long
> Island, Google says this drive clocks in at 2 hrs., 39 minutes!
> (and "up to 3:20 in traffic").
>
> obTransit: or a trip of 3:04 on the RR + subway or walking.
What's the name of that District? Wasn't Giuliani the US Attorney for
the Southern District of New York, which included all of New York City? |