New York City the city is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization, the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. In 1664, the city was named in honor of the Duke of York, who would become King James II of England. James's older brother, King Charles II, had appointed the Duke proprietor of the former territory of New Netherland, including the city of New Amsterdam, which England had recently seized from the Dutch. During the Wisconsinan glaciation, 75,000 to 11,000 years ago, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over
Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York is the largest labor union representing police officers of the New York City Police Department. It represents about 24,000 of the department's 36,000 officers. The union was unable to reach a labor contract with the city between 2012 and 2017. Several representatives of the association sit on the board of the New York City Police Pension Fund. As a benevolent or fraternal organization, the New York City's Patrolmen's Benevolent Association was founded in 1892. In 1901 it pushed for and got