Last spring, after news reports of corruption in several police precincts, the Mayor created an independent commission to investigate police misconduct.

Mayor creates the kind of characters who have always had to fight for survival.

By demanding an immediate decision, the developers say, the Mayor created a tense and angry day for them - but a perfect situation for him.

Business leaders with multimillion-dollar investments in garbage importation speak bitterly of the public-relations disaster they say the Mayor has created.

The Mayor will create a city registry in which residents or nonresident city workers can file as "domestic partners."

No Mayor since La Guardia has challenged so many assumptions and created so much controversy.

"Even if the Mayor created one agency with ability to waive rules for affordable housing, those decisions would still have to go through the environmental review process."

In 1933, the Mayor created a "citizen smoke committee" and appointed his personal secretary Raymond Tucker to take charge of efforts to improve air quality.

Last year, the Mayor created a 10-year, $4.2 billion program to substantially renovate or construct 66,000 apartments and to preserve another 186,000 housing units.

The Mayor created the homeless commission last September after news reports documented problems with the city's programs for homeless families.