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Government The Manhattan Municipal Building is home to many city agencies, and is one of the buildings of government offices world's largest. Since its consolidation in 1898, the City of New York has been a metropolitan municipality with a system of government headed by a mayor and city council. The government is more centralized than those of most other U.S. cities. He is responsible for public education, correctional institutions, libraries, public safety, leisure, health, water and social services. The Mayor and Council are elected every four years, re-elected once.The New York City Council is a unicameral body consisting of 51 members whose districts are defined by geographic population boundaries. The mayor is Michael Bloomberg, a former Democrat and current independent elected as a Republican in 2001 and reelected in 2005 with 59 of the vote. is known for taking control of the educational system of the city from the state, economic development and an aggressive public health policy. In his second term has made school reform, poverty reduction and strict gun control central priorities of his administration. Together with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, in 2006 founded the Coalition of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, an organization whose purpose is "to assure the public taking illegal guns off the streets." The Democratic Party holds the majority of public offices. 66 of registered voters are Democrats. The political geography of the city of New York is unusual.It consists of five districts or communes, each of which coincides with one of five boroughs of New York. Manhattan New York County, Queens with Queens County, Brooklyn Kings County, Bronx County, Bronx and Staten Island in Richmond County. After the consolidation of the city, all previous governments were abolished and replaced by the current centralized and unified government. However, each county maintains its own district attorney, and most of the court system is organized by county. As headquarters of the United Nations, New York has the largest number of consular institutions, consulates general and honorary consulate offices.