City Club of New York York Times". In 1913 the City Club commissioned a large boulder to commemorate the burial site of Captain Thomas Willett (died 1674), the first English mayor of New York, at Little Neck Cemetery, East Providence, Rhode Island. By the 1920s the City Club was advocating on behalf of making the city safer in areas like urban planning and transportation; they also expanded their advocacy to the State of New York as a whole. They published an annual "Murder Map," documenting the deaths of children due to traffic accidents and other unsafe urban conditions. In May 1937 the City Club bestowed
Vincent Thomas (mayor) not to seek re-election, Thomas called for an increase in African-American representation in the city government. Vincent Thomas died at the Harbor's Edge retirement community in Norfolk on November 7, 2015, at the age of 93. Vincent Thomas (mayor) Vincent Johns Thomas (September 20, 1922 – November 7, 2015) was an American businessman and politician who served as the Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia, from 1976 to 1984. He also served as the chairman of the Virginia State Board of Education from 1975 to 1978. Thomas, who was born in Norfolk to Minnie Allison Thomas and Vincent Graves Thomas on September