"Nicolls first served as mayor in 1671, when New York was under English rule, making him the city's sixth mayor at the time. In 1673, the Dutch briefly retook control of the colony, replacing the mayoral system with Dutch officials known as burgomasters. When the English regained control in November 1674, Nicolls was sworn in again, this time as the city's eighth mayor. That second term was later left out of official records."
"The numbers have been more a matter of convenience. One thing for certain is he is not Mayor 111. The discrepancy stems from a centuries-old record-keeping error involving a 17th-century mayor whose second, nonconsecutive term was overlooked, according to Michael Lorenzini, a researcher with the New York City Department of Records. For example, President Donald Trump is considered both the 45th and 47th president."
Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as New York City's next mayor and historians now say he will be the city's 112th mayor, not the 111th. The misnumbering originates from a centuries-old record-keeping error that omitted Matthias Nicolls' second, nonconsecutive term from 1674 to 1675. Nicolls first served in 1671 under English rule, returned after the English retook the colony in November 1674, and was sworn in again as the eighth mayor. Compilers of the early 20th-century Official Directory (the Green Book) missed Nicolls' second term and listed William Dervall as the eighth mayor, causing all subsequent mayors to be misnumbered.
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