Seal of New York City be duplicated across city departments as an official symbol. With the exception of changing the year from 1664 to 1625, the official seal has remained in use ever since. An alternate version of the seal, without the Latin legend, is found on the city flag. Seal of New York City The seal of New York City, designed in 1915 and adapted from an earlier form dating back in 1686, bears the legend which means simply "The Seal of the City of New York": "Eboracum" was the Roman name for York in Latin, the titular seat of James II as Duke
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