For more than a century, the Manhattan Municipal Building has been the home to many of the city's administrative services, including the city's Marriage License Bureau. The building itself has been featured in countless movies and TV show, such as Ghostbusters and Law & Order.
Now, the 40-story landmarked Beaux-Arts style edifice will forever be known as the The David N. Dinkins Municipal Building.
At a ceremony Thursday, current New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a new plague making the renaming of the building at 1 Centre Street, just a block from City Hall, official.
Completed in 1914 to accommodate increased governmental space after the 1898 consolidation of the city's five boroughs, the Municipal Building is named for Former Mayor David Dinkins, who governed New York City in the early 1990s and oversaw the start of the city's turn around from the "bad old days" of the 1970s and 1980s.
Mr. Dinkins, who is the city first and only African-American mayor to date, was a city clerk for the Marriage License Bureau from 1975 to 1985 and Manhattan Borough President from 1985 to 1989.
