Garden City is a village located in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 23,272 at the time of the 2020 census.
Garden City's town center in August 2017
Garden City Village Hall in September 2021.
Stewart Avenue (CR 177) within the village in September 2021
The Garden City Long Island Rail Road station in 2009
Administrative divisions of New York (state)
The administrative divisions of New York are the various units of government that provide local services in the American state of New York. The state is divided into boroughs, counties, cities, towns, and villages. They are municipal corporations, chartered (created) by the New York State Legislature, as under the New York State Constitution the only body that can create governmental units is the state. All of them have their own governments, sometimes with no paid employees, that provide local services. Centers of population that are not incorporated and have no government or local services are designated hamlets. Whether a municipality is defined as a borough, city, town, or village is determined not by population or land area, but rather on the form of government selected by the residents and approved by the New York State Legislature. Each type of local government is granted specific home rule powers by the New York State Constitution. There are still occasional changes as a village becomes a city, or a village dissolves, each of which requires legislative action. New York also has various corporate entities that provide local services and have their own administrative structures (governments), such as school and fire districts. These are not found in all counties.
Separate municipal buildings for (at that time) the town and village of Monroe in Orange County
Albany City Hall, the seat of local government in New York's capital city
Sign for the Hamlet of Sand Lake within the Town of Sand Lake, New York